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other, of which this is one specimen, puts to the This manuscript appears to be a draft piece of journalism
Leaves of Grass" ("The Greatest Whitman Collector and the Greatest Whitman Collection," The Quarterly Journal
Whitman published the essay anonymously in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855, and he
This manuscript draft, however, may well have been intended for neither journal because of the reference
.— This manuscript consists of prose notes about Long Island, potentially related to a piece of journalism
from 1839 to early 1841, Whitman had moved to Manhattan in May 1841 and was writing and working in journalism
conclusively, but Edward Grier suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing
& are loud in August"—is similar to a description of Washington, D.C., in a piece of Civil War journalism
Whether this manuscript directly contributed to this piece of journalism or not, it seems likely that
Locust," and the other headed "Sunflower," which may have contributed to a piece of Civil War-era journalism