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Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to the 1850s (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:12). In the Walt Whitman Collection at Duke, this manuscript is bound with three other manuscript leaves and two newspaper clippings, also about members of Whitman's family. It is not clear, however, whether Whitman or a collector bound the items, which are on different sizes and types of paper and appear to have been written at different times.