FEINBERG/WHITMAN    LITERARY FILE     Prose "Temperance and Missionary Societies" (undated).    A. MS. draft.
Box 36  Folder 59172

Temperance and Missionary Societies: prose.  A.MS.  (1p.

Written in ink on a sheet of faded and torn paper, about 120 words:

[Corner torn] all the [benevolent] [torn] story influences liberalism [torn] vid desires for [human] mortal elevation, than are signified by such persons and institutions as [Temperance and anti-slaver societies,] Fallen Women and Reform'd Men's Homes, Lucretia Mott Wendell Phillips, the Liberal League, and the temperance and Missionary societies [are here] are certainly here in a [sort of control] book, or rather a living man, from which they radiate, not at all in the method of those societies and persons, but [by] of one who comes eating and drinking, no saint, perfectly at home [in] among steamboat [men] hands, or railroad men in their caboose, or in bar-rooms, or [even] worse places, [or] or [on] among roughs, or 'sports', or freest talk or talk or tales or slang.[?]ll the [benevolent]
[?]atory influences
liberalism, a[?][?i?] Desires for [[?]] mortal
elevation, tha[?]re signified by such
persons and institutions as [Temperance]
[and anti-slavery societies]. Fallen [Wo?][?]
and Reform'-d Men's Homes. Lucretia
Mott. Wendell Phillips, the Liberal
League, and the temperance and
Missionary societies
[are here] are certainly here in a [sort of]
[central] book, or rather a living man,
from which they radiate, not at
all in the method of those societies
and persons, but [by] of one who comes
perfectly at home [in] among steamboat [men] hands,
or railroad men in their caboose,
or in bar-rooms, or [even] worse places,
[or] or [[?]] among roughs, or 'sports,' or
freest talk or tales or slang.