In 1852, he serialized a novel titled "Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography: A Story of New York at the Present Time in which the Reader Will Find Some Familiar Characters" in six installments of New York's "The Sunday Dispatch". In 1858, Whitman published a 47,000 word series called "Manly Health and Training" under the pen name Mose Velsor. Apparently he drew the name Velsor from Van Velsor, his mother's family name. This self-help guide recommends beards, nude sunbathing, comfortable shoes, bathing daily in cold water, eating meat almost exclusively, plenty of fresh air, and getting up early each morning. Present-day writers have called "Manly Health and Training" "quirky", "so over the top", "a pseudoscientific tract", and "wacky".