Content:
Whitman's notes on the "treatment of sex" as the chief obstacle to the advancement of women's rights, pasted to a backing sheet with a clipping of "What Women Can Do" from the
New York Herald
17 April 1882. Portions of this manuscript were revised and used in "A Memorandum at a Venture," first published in the June 1882 issue of the
North American Review
. This essay was reprinted in
Specimen Days
(1882).