Content:
One of several manuscripts in which Whitman records and develops ideas for a poem
that never emerged about the crusades. This manuscript contains notes
about the time periods and divides between the crusades. While other
manuscripts and published works share similarities in topic and idea, a
direct link is unknown. The verso contains part of a cancelled letter
about the steamer
Georgia
between Charles Francis Adams, Minister to England
during the Civil War, and Earl Russell, British Foreign Minister. Other
dated materials containing notes on the crusades suggest this manuscript
was likely composed around 1869.
