Feinberg/Whitman Diaries, etc. Diary Notes Jan & Nov, 1891
Box 3 Folder 18Jan 4 '91
Write this night alone in my 2d
story room 'Mickle' street Sunday-
feeling middling these days but nothing to
boast- persistent grip (influensa - cold
in the head)- & bladder trouble (pretty bad)
-appetite fair- two substantial meals every
day- assimilation digestion &c so-so, but
might be worse - Am  still writing
somewhat- have some pieces accepted
(or ordered) in the NA Review Lippincots
magazine  but rejected by Harper's
Century, Cosmopolitan, Scribner's, Arena, Nineteenth
Century & five-sixths of the editors &
publishers
Consider myself comfortable in money
matters - have enough -want to leave
a fair stake for Ed.(& for Han too)
quiet here as I sit alone in den writing
The last month had been made gloomy
to me by my brother Jeff's death at Saint
Louis
Nov 29 '91 night 1/2 past 6
-bad six weeks the past the
early forenoons & thro' the day-
-this horrible indigestion three years
-bladder trouble day & night painful
-a cold spell just now
Dec 3  9 pm the past 24 hours of suffering
head belly & bladder) as I ever
experienced