Content:
Late-stage draft (with printer's instructions) of the essay "Father Taylor (and Oratory)," which first appeared in
Century Magazine
in February 1887. The piece would later be reprinted in
November Boughs
. Edward Thompson Taylor was a Boston Methodist minister known for his powerful sermons, serving as the inspiration for Melville's "Father Mapple" in
Moby Dick
. Whitman went to hear Taylor speak on several occassions during his stay in Boston in 1860.
