FEINBERG/WHITMAN    LITERARY FILE  Prose   "Walt Whitman in Camden" (Feb. 28, 1885). The Critic.
Box 34 Folder 2                                                                                                                 A.MS.draft.

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1885  Walt Whitman in Camden, by George Selwyn. A.MS. (1p. 11 1/2
19 1/2 cm.)

Written in pencil on part of the inside of an opened-out discarded
envelope, for Walt Whitman, By "Rocky Syrt [?] Ims., from Treasury
Department, Office of Special Agent, Port of X X X, 93 words

[on the walls There are] Hung or tacked on the walls are [the] pictures
those [of] of his mother father and sister holding [plae] the places 
of honor, a [remarkable] portrait of a sweetheart of long ago, a
large print of 'Osceola' the Seminole chief, (given [y] to Whitman 
many years since by Catlin the artist) some rare old engravings
by [Stran] Strange and Mortimer. [and are tack hung or tacked on the
walls On the floor Some Certain [?] ] heaps of books [on the floor] 
or sup [?]  [in the corners Ol There are some]

(This portion of a page of MS draft of 'Walt Whitman in Camden', 
by George Selwyn [WW], The Critic, 28 February 1885, is evidence
of Whitman's authorship. This passage appears also in J.L. & J.B.
Gilder, editors, Authors at Home (New York: Cassell & Company,
Limited, 1888), p. 339. The article is reprinted on pp. 335-342.)

Hung or tacked on the walls are
[on the walls There are
The] pictures, those of his mother father and
sister holding [pla] the places of honor,
a [remarkable] portrait of a sweetheart of long ago, a large print of
'Osceola' the Seminole chief, (given [of] to Whitman
many years since by Catlin the artist)
some rare, old engravings by [Stras]
Strange and Mortimer, [and
are last hung or tacked on
on the floor some heaps of books on the floor or up
the walls. All There are some in the corner]

Treasury Department,
Office of Special Agent.
Port of x x x
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
Any person using this envelope to avoid the payment of postage
on private matter of any kind, will be subject to a fine of Three
Hundred Dollars.

For
Walt

By "Rocks" [????]
             [??s.]

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