The newly discovered essay advances robust hypotheses connecting a nineteenth century Mormon Desert Fort (which founded the urban existence of Las Vegas) to an arcane cryptic measure within the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Mellibee argues this privately-intended Hopkins encryption became discoverable to the general reader upon the posthumous publication of Gerard Manley Hopkin's poetry in 1918 and can be traced in the rivalrous discourse of Rudyard Kipling and James Joyce.