Content:
An unfinished poem, entitled "Kentucky," the title given three times,
with "By Walt Whitman" on one of the pages (see image 3). On one of the
pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning
with James E. Miller, Jr.) have included as the last stanza of "Kentucky" (see image
1). On the verso of another page is a cancelled portion of a letter
about Jesse Whitman's employment, from which the manuscript can be dated
1861 (see
image 12).
