[Dec 23, 1864 good—& must be used]

Whitman Archive Title: [Dec 23, 1864 good—& must be used]
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00513
Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
Date: 1860–1864
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 8 leaves, handwritten
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Content: One of a series of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass , but which were never printed during Whitman's lifetime. Though this introduction was not printed as a complete and distinct piece until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were used in Democratic Vistas (1871).