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Description Letter to Walt Whitman dtd, 21 July, 1855, first Page: "I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed."
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Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
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