Content:
A complete draft of Whitman's essay "A Word About Tennyson," which was first published in the
Critic
on January 1, 1887. The piece would later appear in the English edition of
Democratic Vistas and Other Papers
(1888), as well as
November Boughs
(1888) and
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman has numbered the pages and included a note to the printer at the top of the first leaf.
