Content:
A brief manuscript scrap with no known connection to Whitman's published work. This manuscript is difficult to date conclusively, but Edward Grier suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s" (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:295).
