Welcome to the Franklin Evans annotations blog for the City Tech Looking for Whitman class. We’re using this blog to post and annotate paragraphs from Walt Whitman’s 1842 temperance novel. 
Our annotations are just a beginning. Please feel free to add your own comments to deepen and enrich our understanding of this work.
All page references are to the following edition of the work:
Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler, Eds. Durham, N.C.: Duke U.P., 2007.