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Whitman Archive Title: [Thuswise it comes]
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Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00516
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Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
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Date: 1860–1867
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 3 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. This particular introduction, composed entirely in verse, is most closely related to "Inscriptions," which first appeared in the 1867 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. However, no lines from this manuscript can be directly linked to any part of "Inscriptions." No other relationship to Whitman's published work is known.
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