Folder 7, continued. Seven assorted leaves of white wove paper.  Of the eight in the fol,der the
second and third (the first and second of this poem) are a conjugate folded half-cheet of the same
size and paper as leaf 1 and are written in the same ink as the first leaf.  The pinholes in the three
leaves also match.  At the top right corner of leaf 2, probably in Whitman's hand, appears a '1'
written in blue pencil over a lead pencil '7.'  On the third leaf appears in blue pencil '2' written
over a pancil figure '8.'  Below the last line on leaf 3 (verse 10) Whitman wrote "xMore'. 
Leaves 4-8 are larger pieces of the same wove paper (7 7/8 x 6 3/16) written in a darker ink. 
These leaves contain pinholes differing from those in leaves 1-3.  Whitman's own poem
numbering '81' is found in pencil in the top left corner of leaf 4 above verse 11.  This number,
and the change in paper at leaf 4, appears to indicate that the first ten verses were attached to the
poem as an afterthought.  1860, pp. 342-44; Camden I, 138-39.  On the versos of leaves 4-6
appears the pencil draft of an editorial or prose article entitled <i>Important Questions in
Brooklyn.--, beginning "The most prominant public question in Brooklyn, just now, (coincident
with the April charter."