Content:
Notes, or possibly trial lines, articulating various beliefs about how to write. Edward Grier speculates, based on the style and content, that this manuscript probably dates to between 1847 and 1855 (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:159). This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "It seems to me," "What shall the great poet be then?," and "The most superb beauties."
