[The best of the two Introductions]

Whitman Archive Title: [The best of the two Introductions]
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00514
Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
Date: 1860–1865
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 8 leaves, handwritten
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Content: One of a series of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass , but which were never printed during Whitman's lifetime. Though this introduction was not printed as a complete and distinct piece until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were used in Democratic Vistas (1871). An image of the verso of the final leaf is unavailable.