Content:
This manuscript fragment was originally part of a larger leaf which
comprised two other fragments as well: tex.00308 and tex.00247. Before
the sheet was cut into three pieces, this fragment formed the upper
part. The writing it contains is related to a section headed "Specimen of the Army Hospitals Now in and
around Washington" in "Our Wounded
and Sick Soldiers," an article published in the December 11,
1864 issue of the
New York Times.
Whitman also used this material in
"Still More of the Hospitals," a
section of the article "'Tis But Ten Years
Since. (Fourth Paper.)," published in the
New York Weekly Graphic
on February 21, 1874. Further revised, it was later published
in
Memoranda during the War
(1875–76) as "Aug., Sep.,
and Oct., '63—The Hospitals." This was reprinted,
unchanged, in
Two Rivulets
(1876). Finally, it appeared as "Hospitals Ensemble" in
Specimen Days
& Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). It is uncertain whether Whitman created this manuscript as he drafted
material for the 1864 article or wrote it as he worked to synthesize
earlier pieces for the "'Tis But Ten Years
Since" series, though the latter scenario is more likely.
Whitman Archive Title: [Among the things arising out]
Content:
Three-page draft, heavily revised, of "Still
More of the Hospitals," a section of the article "'Tis But Ten Years Since. (Fourth
Paper.)," published in the
New York
Weekly Graphic
on February 21, 1874.
Further revised, it was later published in
Memoranda during the War
(1875–76) as "Aug., Sep., and Oct., '63—The
Hospitals." Finally, it appeared as "Hospitals Ensemble" in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892).
