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This is a prose manuscript with an unknown connection to Whitman's published work, in which he compares writing to the composition of a "grand opera." The reverse side (duk.00787) contains lines that contributed to the poem ultimately titled "Song of Myself." In the repository, this manuscript is bound, seemingly by a collector, with a printer's copy of the 1881–82 edition of
Leaves of Grass
that contains numerous handwritten corrections by Whitman (duk.00098).
