Feinberg/Whitman Literary file Prose "Note to a Friend" (June 1883). November Roughs. A.MS. draft. (DCN 79) Box 33 Folder 47 1883 June Note to a friend. A.MS. initialed. (2p. 26 1/2 x 20 1/2 cm.) Final draft for Note to a Friend, which Walt Whitman originally wrote as inscription for a copy of Specimen Days presented to Peter Doyle; this copy is now in the Whitman Collection of T.E. Hanley. Note to a Friend was first published in November Boughs, 1888, p. 107, later as dedicatory note in Calamus, Boston, L. Maynard, 1897. One of the two pages contains an early draft of the inscription. Pasted onto this page by Walt Whitman the final draft, leaving the title and subtitle of the early draft. With directions to printer. (79) Note to a friend. [*George*] (Written on the fly-leaf of a copy of "Spec[?] Days" sent to [my young friend] Peter Doyle at Was[?]ington, June, 1883.) [*sm [typpe] type*] Pete, do you remember- (of course you do - I do well) - those great long jovial walks we had at times for years, (1866-'72) out of Washington City - often moonlight nights - 'way to "Good Hope"; - or, Sundays, up and down the Potomac shores, one side or the other sometimes ten miles at a stretch? Or when you work'd on the horse:cart, and I waited for you, coming home late together - or resting and chatting at the market, corner 7th street and the Avenue, and eating those nice musk or watermelons? Or during my tedious sickness and first paralysis ('73) how you used to come [regularly up] to my solitary garret room and make up my bed, and enliven me and chat for an hour or so - or perhaps go out and [?] the medicines Dr. Drinkard had order'd for [?] before you went on duty? [*...3 em leader*] Give my [?] [?] Mrs and Mr Nash, and tell them [?] forgotten, and never will. W.W. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.