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This manuscript, the current location of which is not known, was published by Clifton J. Furness in
Walt Whitman's Workshop
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928), 44. Edward Grier notes that Whitman visited hospitals as early as 1854, "beginning with visits to sick omnibus drivers whom he knew" (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2042). The manuscript was most likely created sometime between 1854 and the years immediately following the Civil War. No connection between this manuscript and Whitman's published works has been established.