Content:
This is a manuscript with poem notes relating to Whitman's experience as a
nurse during the Civil War, some lines of which correspond to "The Wound-Dresser," first published in
Leaves of Grass
(1876). The verso contains notes about a call Whitman received from a mother, dated December 23, 1864, regarding her son Frank
Lester, an imprisoned soldier. The relationship of these prose notes to Whitman's
published work is unknown.
