Provenance:  The pages of the manuscript were found between the pages of a copy of Volume I of Edward Edwards' Memoirs of Libraries, of Museums; and of Archives; (Public and Private); and of some of their chief founders, collectors, keepers, and benefactors, (1885) 2nd Rev. Ed. (London: Thomas Greenwood, 1901).  The book was purchased by Arnold Sanders (English Department, Goucher College) in December 2006, sight unseen via ABEBooks.com, from DNBGalleries.com, a bookstore in Rhode Island.  The book was delivered USPS.  The accession stamp on the title page indicates the volume previously was in the Surgeon General's Library (Washington, D.C.), accession number 240161.  Beside the SGL stamp, a second stamp, "Exchange," appears, indicating that the book was traded to another collection for something the SGL wanted. The document was composed of three sheets of paper folded in half to make a gathering in sixes.  The manuscript pages were intact when first opened, but the brittle paper on which they are written caused them to separate at the fold and they now exist as six separate leaves (Folios 1-6, Fo. 6v being blank).