Content:
This manuscript is a partial draft of "Memorial in Behalf of a Freer Municipal Government, and Against Sunday Restrictions," a public letter printed in the Brooklyn
Star
on October 20, 1854. Whitman probably drafted the manuscript shortly before the piece was published. On the verso (loc.00042) is a draft related to the poetry of the first edition of
Leaves of Grass
(1855).
Content:
This manuscript is a partial draft of "Memorial in Behalf of a Freer Municipal Government, and Against Sunday Restrictions," a public letter printed in the Brooklyn
Star
on October 20, 1854. Whitman probably drafted the manuscript shortly before the piece was published. On the reverse (duk.00259) are draft lines that contributed to the final poem of the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, later titled "Great Are the Myths."
Content:
This manuscript is a partial draft of "Memorial in Behalf of a Freer Municipal Government, and Against Sunday Restrictions," a public letter printed in the Brooklyn
Star
on October 20, 1854. Whitman probably drafted the manuscript shortly before the piece was published. Three draft lines of poetry are written on the back of the manuscript (nyp.00125).
