One obligation of great fresh

Whitman Archive Title: One obligation of great fresh
Whitman Archive ID: med.00737
Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
Date: Before or early in 1855
Genre: prose
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..