We know of no beginning in universal literature

Whitman Archive Title: We know of no beginning in universal literature
Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00002
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York
Date: about 1856
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of unpublished prose work regarding the beginnings of "universal literature." Pasted to the page is a clipping from an unknown newspaper with the heading "Greeks, Romans, Hebrews." This document has been titled by other collectors "The Dawn of Poetry" (Charles E. Feinberg) and "Beginning of Literature, 1856" (Richard Maurice Bucke). The relationship of this document to Whitman's published work is unknown. An image of the verso is unavailable.