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Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to the 1840s or 1850s. He also notes that this manuscript did not contribute to the editorial entitled "Municipal Government" that appeared in the Brooklyn
Daily Times
on December 1, 1858 (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:345). On the reverse side (duk.00027) is a poetry manuscript containing ideas possibly connected to Whitman's unpublished short story "Of a summer evening."
