Content:
The material in this one-page manuscript was used in the essay "A Yankee Antique," which was first
published in
Memoranda during the War
(1875–76) and later reprinted in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892). The leaf is pasted to a backing
sheet, making the reverse side inaccesssible.
Content:
Manuscript fragment of several short sentences that contributed to the
essay "A Yankee Antique," which was
first published in
Memoranda during the
War
(1875–76) and later reprinted in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892). The leaf is pasted to a backing
sheet, making the reverse side inaccesssible.
Content:
Brief notes about Calvin Harlowe, a Civil War soldier whose death Whitman
described in "A Yankee Antique," an
essay first published in
Memoranda during the
War
(1875–76) and later reprinted in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892). The leaf is pasted to a backing
sheet, making the reverse side inaccesssible.