Title: Specimen Days Grisi and Mario
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Undated
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00679
Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: Grier estimates that this note (which is pasted down) was written in 1880 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 3:1064).
Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe, Nicole Gray, Ty Alyea, and Matt Cohen
Grisi and Mario arrived in NY Aug 19. 1854 —I heard them that winter & in 1855
the Cholera in NY in 1855
—the Crimean War 1854–5 ([yr?]?)