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This manuscript is an early draft of the first part of the essay "The Bible as
Poetry" published in the
Critic
on February
3, 1883 and then included, with the same title, in
November Boughs
, published in 1888
(later retained in the
Complete Prose
Works
, published in 1892). On the verso is a letter from D.W. Zimmerman to Whitman, dated 13 January 1883.
