Content:
Notes on the settlement of Brooklyn that may have contributed to the
first installment of "Brooklyniana; A Series
of Local Articles, Past and Present. No. 1," first published
in the Brooklyn
Daily Standard
on 3 June 1861.
Whitman Archive Title: [The North too will eliminate]
Content:
The recto includes two prose paragraphs that contributed to the first
installment of "'Tis But Ten Years
Since," which appeared in the
New York Weekly Graphic
in January
1874. The verso contains a fragment of correspondence.
Content:
Notes on Abraham Lincoln and the political climate leading up to the
"attempted secession," including handwritten corrections of printed
prose. This manuscript contributed to "Origins of Attempted Secession. Not the whole matter, but some
facts worth conning to-day and any day,"
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883). "Origins of
Attempted Secession" was first published as part of "'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper],"
New York Weekly Graphic
(24 January 1874). Portions of this essay
were revised and used in
Memoranda During the
War
(1875–1876) before appearing in
Specimen Days & Collect
. Whitman
included "Origins of Attempted
Secession" in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892).
