Content:
A scrap of prose discussing the building of sidewalks in Brooklyn. The writing has no known connection to Whitman's published work. The leaf originally was part of a larger notebook (loc.00024) that probably dates to between 1853 and 1855. The cancelled lines on the back of this leaf (loc.05705) were revised and used in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. Since the poetic lines have been crossed out and the prose has not, it's likely that the prose was written later, but likely not much later, based on the similarity of the handwriting. Therefore, this manuscript was likely written around 1855.
