Content:
This manuscript contains a large part of the account of Abraham Lincoln's
appointment of James Harlan as Secretary of the Interior, which was first
published in
November Boughs
in
1888 with the title of "Small Memoranda" and was later retained the
Complete Prose Works
, published in 1892.
Content:
Composed on a piece of Attorney General's Office stationery, this manuscript is a draft fragment of "Small Memoranda," which first appeared in
November Boughs
(1888), and was collected in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). For further information on this manuscript, see Ed Folsom. "Whitman's Manuscript Draft of 'Small Memoranda,'"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
26.2 [Fall 2008], 122-123.
