FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE Prose "People: Latent Qualities" (undated). A. MS. draft. Box 36 Folder 45 976 People: Latent Qualities: Prose. A. MS. (3p., 1 blank, 13 x 10 cm.) Written in pencil, with some of the corrections in ink, and figure in right corner in blue pencil, 129 words: 13 1/2 (1) [The people not] great in literary expression [bit] are immensely great in their premises, qualities, incoherent, latent [latent, often incoherent] streaked no doubt with [blackes] lurid passions & blackest shades, the people always needing formulators, exemplars, leaders, Christs? [afraid present, nor(?)] [Who the profoundest study] Nor may be intermit here to add that There is no [grander] better or & or more beautiful work in the world than to become the / wise and judicious exponent, the (2) loving brother, the father, the formulator, the cautioner, the religious & literary xx instructor, on highest ground, of the [American] people in all lands [of] to=day (over) 977 (On verse of 1:) The look As moving against the interminable crowds The deficient look distorted " bad complexion Is there to be no happy face the animals are perfect[*13 ½*] [The people—not] great [are] in literary expression [but] are immensely great in their premises, qualities, incoherent, [latent] lateral [often] [Incoherent,] [great] streaked no doubt with [blacken] lurid passions, & blackest shades, —the people always needing formulators, exemplars, leaders, Christs , [Nor] [present] [?] [the profoundest study.] —[Who] There is no [grandes] better [&] or more beautiful work in the world than to become the[The look as may angst the interminable [?], the defiant look distorted bad complecion Is there to be [?o] happy face] The animals are perfectwise & judicious exponent, the loving brother, the father, the poet, the (formulater), the cautioner, the religious & literary instructer, on highest deepest ground of the people in all lands, today. Nor may we intermit here to add that