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Healthiness of Different Employments

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  • Title: Healthiness of Different Employments
  • Date: 21 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00723
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 21 May 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Tara Ballard Emily Schartz Brynne Schweigel Kevin McMullen Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Healthiness of Different Employments." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00723.xml (TEI)
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HEALTHINESS OF DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENTS.—

The reader will find an interesting article on this subject on the first page of our paper to-day. Let none suppose, however, after reading it, that his occupation is going to shorten his life. Almost any occupation is better than having no occupation at all.

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