Content:
Notes on the "aboriginal money" Whitman identifies as the "Seawan, or
Seawant." Whitman wrote about this currency in the fourth installment of
Brooklyniana, which appeared in the 28 December
1861 issue of the
Brooklyn
Standard
. For more on how this manuscript may have
contributed to this piece of journalism, see Kimberly Winschel Banion,
"'These terrible 30 or 40 hours':
Washington at the Battle of Brooklyn in Whitman's 'The Sleepers' and
'Brooklyniana' Manuscripts,"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
27 (Spring 2010),
193-212.
