recommendation to the young

Whitman Archive Title: recommendation to the young
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00794
Repository ID: MS 12mo 15
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: 1856
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A prose fragment dealing with political independence that contains phrases and ideas similar to those found in Whitman's complete but unpublished essay "The Eighteenth Presidency!" The essay was subtitled "Voice of Walt Whitman to each Young Man in the Naton, North, South, East, and West," a line which is echoed in this manuscript. The reverse contains notes for poetry, including phrases which appear in section 6 of the final version of"Starting from Paumanok," first published as "Proto-Leaf" in the 1860–1861 Leaves of Grass , and in "Mediums," first published in the 1867 Leaves .