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Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

To A President

  • Whitman Archive Title: One good of knowing
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00124
  • Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
  • Repository Title: One good of knowing the great politics of nature
  • Date: about 1860
  • Genre: poetry, prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
  • View Images: 1
  • Content: A prose note on "the great politics of nature" that Whitman reworked and used in the poem "To a President," first published in Leaves of Grass (1860–1861), and reprinted in subsequent editions of Leaves .
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