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Walt Whitman
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Poet, author of Leaves of Grass, self-published in Brooklyn on 4 July 1855. Emerson wrote to him after reading the first edition, praising it as the beginning of a great career; Whitman printed the letter, without permission, in the New York Tribune and in later editions of the book.
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Emerson to Whitman, 21 July 1855, on receiving the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
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