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On part of the page is prose that appears to be a journal entry.
This manuscript draft, however, may well have been intended for neither journal because of the reference
(No. 5)," a piece of journalism that appeared in The Critic (Vol. I, no. 24) on December 3, 1881.
chirping]1877prose1 leafhandwritten; Notes dated February 10–11, 1877, which read like a series of journal
Murray, Walt Whitman Laughs: An Uncollected Piece of Prose Journalism, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
Dartmouth College utterance]1872prose4 leaveshandwritten; A seemingly complete draft of a piece of journalism
According to Emory Holloway, the caricature that it describes was printed in the Fifth Avenue Journal
For more details regarding how this manuscript contributed to these two pieces of journalism, see Martin
Murray, Two Pieces of Uncollected Whitman Journalism: 'Washington as a Central Winter Residence' and
description of "a model American young man" inscribed on this manuscript likely contributed to Whitman's journalism
1885poetryprose5 leaveshandwritten; The rectos of these several leaves form what seems to be a piece of journalism
This manuscript seems to be composed of selections from a Civil War journal that Whitman compiled in
direct textual links between the two, it is likely that these notes contributed to this piece of journalism
1859prose3 leaveshandwritten; A manuscript containing a fairly neat draft of what is likely a piece of journalism
transcription and images of the article, see http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism
For more on how this manuscript may have contributed to this piece of journalism, see Kimberly Winschel
Whitman published the essay anonymously in the American Phrenological Journal in October 1855, and he
On the verso (loc.07869) is a draft of a piece of journalism published on October 20, 1854.; loc.07869
leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains prose notes about Long Island, potentially related to a piece of journalism
Locust," and the other headed "Sunflower," which may have contributed to a piece of Civil War-era journalism
& 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
On the reverse side is a manuscript (loc.05620) containing a draft of an unpublished piece of journalism
Leaves of Grass" (The Greatest Whitman Collector and the Greatest Whitman Collection, The Quarterly Journal
Between 1841 and 1862prosehandwritten7 leaves; This manuscript appears to be a draft of a piece of journalism
conclusively, but Edward Grier suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing
quoted this passage in his An English and an American Poet published in the American Phrenological Journal