Content:
This manuscript fragment is an early draft of material Whitman used in
the introductory paragraph of "Notes (such as
they are) founded on Elias Hicks," an essay that was first
published in November Boughs (1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). See also tex.00204, a closely related manuscript. The leaf has been pasted to a backing sheet, rendering the verso inaccessible.
