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One obligation of great fresh
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Whitman Archive Title: One obligation of great fresh
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Whitman Archive ID: med.00737
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Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
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Date: Before or early in 1855
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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Content:
Because the manuscript has not been located it is difficult to speculate on the circumstances or date of its composition. The discussion of "the poetic quality" and the punctuation (at least as rendered by earlier editors) are similar to the preface to the 18555
Leaves of Grass
, so it is possible that the composition date was before or early in 1855..
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