Content:
This notebook includes a draft of lines written about Pfaff's, a popular
mid-nineteenth century Bohemian spot (see surfaces 11 through 18). The
lines were edited and published posthumously as "The Two Vaults." This notebook also
contains the notes (see surfaces 23 to 44 and 47 to 59) about the
Jamaica Presbyterian bicentennial which were used by Whitman in the
article "Important Ecclesiastical Gathering
at Jamaica, L.I." published in the
Brooklyn City News
in January
1862.
