FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE Prose "Superb Music: Voices of Workmen" (undated). AMS. draft.
Box 36 Folder 57Superb Music: Voices of Workmen: prose. A.MS. (lp. 11 x 16

Written in ink on a pale green piece cut from a larger sheet, 131 words:

You who would hear [the most] superb[est] music, go
[go through the American] traverse our streets. [of a fine day.]
[The most beautiful finest voices on in the world earth are those of young men]
[You who would hear music, go into the streets.]
[of Manhattan our cities. city.] I often wander
all day, on Manhattan Island,
through the streets toward the East River,
on purpose to have the pleasure of hearing
[asking no other pleasure but to hear]
[for the pleasure of hearing] the voices
of the native born [and or] and bred workmen and apprentices in 
the spar=yards, on piers, caulkers on the ship=
scaffolds, [iron] workmen in iron, [sh] mechanics from or to their shops, drivers
calling to their of horses, [or at]  and the like.--You who would, hear superb[est] music, go
[go through] traverse [the American] our streets. [of a fine day] finest
[[The most beautiful [finest] voices [on] in earth [the world] are those of the young men
Men who would hear music go into the streets.]]
[of Mannahattan city [our cities.]] I often wander
all day, on Manhattan.  Follow
through the streets, toward the East River,
on purpose to have the pleasure of hearing
[ask no other pleasure but to hear]
of the native born [and or] and bred workmen and apprentices in 
 the spar=yards, on piers, caulkers on the ship
scaffolds, [iron] workmen in iron, [sho] mechanics from or to their shops, drivers
of calling to their horses, [or at] and the like. -