Content:
Draft of a prose piece which appeared in the 17 October 1872 issue of the Washington
Evening Star
, under the head "Washington News and Gossip." For more on this manuscript and its contribution to this published work, see Martin G. Murray, "Walt Whitman Laughs: An Uncollected Piece of Prose Journalism,"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
30 (Winter 2013), 138-149.