[I have jotted down these memoranda]

Whitman Archive Title: [I have jotted down these memoranda]
Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00013
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Box: 1
Folder: 20
Repository Title: I have written these memoranda
Date: 1876–1882
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A short prose manuscript that reads like notes towards a preface. However, Whitman appears to have returned to this manuscript at a later date, revising some phrases and suggesting that this scrap is the "best foot note of all for first page." In fact, portions of this manuscript were used in Whitman's footnote to "New Themes Entered Upon," Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883).