FEINBERG/WHITMAN      LITERARY FILE
Box 35 Folder 32
Prose "American Character" (undated).
A.MS. draft.1027
American Character: notes. A.MS. (2p. 17 1/2 x 10 1/2 cm.)

Written in pencil, with some of the corrections in ink, on two pages
torn from a notebook, 108 words:

Let no one mistake me
At the same time

I like well to the cosmopolitan, polyglot construction stamp 
of America, and the retention thereof, in a broad, tolerating, [all]
[ comprehending] comprehensive many-sided character. All [races] nations
here-- [all represen] the Home for [all the Nations]-- every race 
on earth--British, German, Scandinavian, [French], Spanish, French,
Italian-- [all represented]-/papers published, plays acted,
 speeches made everywhere throug[h] the United States in all languages
-- the last and grandest of these distillations, [as it were, of that]
 fermentations, [and] decantations of general humanity that [has] have 
been going [through the circles of the l] on upon the planet so longLet no one mistake me 
At the same time 
I like were too the 
cosmopolitan, polyglot 
construction stamp of America, 
and the retention therof, 
in a broad tolerating
comprehensive 
[all comprehending]
many-sided
character. All nations here -
[all represen] the Home
for every race [all the nations] on earth-
British, German, Scandinavian
[French], Spanish, 
French, Italian - 
[all represented]papers published plays acted, speeches made
[and magazines]
everywhere through the United States
in all languages --
the last and grandest of these
distallations, [as  it 
were, of that]
fermentations, [and]
decantations of general humanity
that have [has] been going
on the [through the cycles]
on upon the planet so long.