In 1997, Reginald Robinson noticed that
a page of handwritten manuscript in the
photograph Joplin's Piano (issued by
Lottie Joplin in 1947 for Brun Campbell)
was not only readable, but was almost
certainly the work of Scott Joplin later
in his life, c.1914. Here then is that
single page of a song (lyrics too blurred
to make out) -- a brief glimpse into the
mind of the dying Joplin, and the only glimpse
that still exists today from the stacks of
unpublished manuscripts that are known to
have existed.