FEINBERG/WHITMAN
Box 21 Folder 1

LITERARY FILE

BOOK FILE

L of G (1856)

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Includes verso prose piece.families, men and women, old and young,
the working people, plenty of blacks - if the
horses would be tied around, some would
be freed from their harness, turned round and left at ease,
to eat hay from the tail of the wagon.
The church inside presented a truly
Dutch array of faces; they predominated,
though of course there were plenty
of others,  many cultivated and
traveled persons, fine looking women,
visitors, young people and so forth. The sermon
was in Dutch, the Dominise not a
man of shallow acquirements
but learned, fine demeanor, of good sense.
The church itself was rude, 
oval, quite large, it’s roof shaped
like a sugar loaf, conical, up
to a sharp point.
Think of the old church, with
its roof shaped like a sugar loaf
that stood there in Fulton avenue,
near Duffield
Street, where the road
was left wide, and if in the[Also in the same volume [also contains]
[also] "Leaves-Droppings" contains the correspondence 
with R. W. Emerson. 

Also Opinions of the American and English 
press. -- 

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tree, and [w??d] [??] many
years as a printing office.--
He printed--

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The Patriot - The Star- The first Daily
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The old Dutch Church in Fulton
street, about ? 50 rods from City Hall (not far  near
the corner of Duffield, stood till 1804 about
1805 -- It was the same church, 
through the Revolutionary War.--It
stood right in the middle of the 
road, leaving plenty of space to
travel each side of it.--(The
old grave yard is standing there yet,
Sept. 1858.--But it will soon be 
different; orders are issued to remove
the remains of the dead, and every
once in a while, some one is removed).
--The old church of Sunday--
say 60 years ago--Then the farmers
would come in from the surrounding
towns, slowly, with heavy wagons, largeManhattan [boy boys]
[Americans], go in!
"The Broad=Alce leaps!"

These poems    &    London Dispatch

The New Writings of
Walt Whitman

[small com]
In one vol. green and gold, 400 p. 24 mo.

The [The] "Leaves of Grass," contains Thirty two poems
[(including the twelve of the edition of 1885,)]  vis:[*198*]

1856     Advertisement for 1856 Leaves of Grass. A.MS. (2p. 15 1/2
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Written in pencil, with some additions and corrections in ink,
on the verso of two pages of Whitman's MS of the history of
brooklyn, 129 words:

These poems & London Dispatch

The New Writings of
Walt Whitman
[O Small com]
     In one vol.green and gold, 400 p. 24mo.
The     ------     contains
Thirty two poems
[The] "Leaves of Grass," [new ed]
([including the twelve of the edition of 1855,]) viz:

Manhattan, [boy, boys,]
[Americans], go in!

"The Broad-Axe leaps!"[*199*]

Also in the same volume [also contains]
[*J*] [Also] "Leaves –Droppings" containing the correspondence
with R. W. Emerson.
Also Opinions of the American and English press.--
Price $1,  richly bound.--A letter by mail remitting $1 will procure
a bound copy postpaid.--
[Dealers] The work may be obtained or ordered at any Bookstore
or Newspaper depot.--
Dealers, send in your orders.--The "Leaves of Grass" will always
be [called for, and every successive season year] in demand.--