Content:
This manuscript consists of a note, handwritten by Whitman, in a visitor's book for Manhattan Public School #13. Whitman's entry is one of several on the page. The entry is dated January 12, and it can be inferred from the surrounding dates that the year is 1842. A photostat of the page can be found in Florence Bernstein Freedman,
Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools
(New York: King's Crown Press, 1950): facing page 33.