FEINBERG/WHITMAN     NOTES and NOTEBOOKS     NOTEBOOKS    1855-56    "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" trial lines (SCN10)
Box 37 Folder 25George Walker
Edward Smithson
John Swinton / Lewis his bro.
Sam (with black eyes
& cap)
Henry Hearne
William Preeker 
William Phillips
George P. Morris
Leo
Pete Demfosky(?)
Henry Post (Fulton
op. Eagle Office
Nick (black eyes-40th st.-small
Joe (Canadian - Montreal)
Bill Young  milkman & drive(?)
George Hpflegatin(?) (tallest)

Gentlemen, I will be very
plain with you.-- I see
in my country many great
qualities.-- I see in
America not merely the
home of Americans, but
the home of the needy
and down kept races
of the whole earth. -- I
know just as well as 
you the terrible [e]
effects of ages of degradation
and caste. -- It is a 
real truth -- it is a 
black and bloody lesson--

A. Baker Boots
15 Arin(?) st
Stout boots $4.
Double water proof 4.50[For] It is mentioned
that the Irish and Germans
and other foreigners mix
in our politics.-- Gentlemen
with perfect respect
I say [you] you can think
what [wh] you choose
about this; -- It is a 
credit to men and no
disgrace to them to take
an eager interest in
politics.--

Amherst White, attorney,
cor Barclay & Broadway

A. J. Davis
137 Spring

for Gymnastic and Athletic

I heard to=day of a young
[man] man who was
bequeathed $6000000(?) and
wasted it -- There
are young men who are
bequeathed more than
that and never put it
to good use(?)

(?) Manhattan for
New York all
through

of their bodies and
[leave] the rest in
strong shadow
I have seen them
[Thus(?)] [afar afar] high up [off]
slowly wheeling in
circles,  [edging(?)] along to the 
[youth?]What is there you can
conceive more wonderful
than what you see around you?

Nothing can be conceived
of by the fancy that
can be more wonderful
than what we see --

Cursed is that age or
nation that does not
realize itself, and 
esteem itself,
Wretched is that man
who does not esteem
himself

Put "Manhattan"  for
New York all
throughPoem or passage
the scenes on the river
[Pe C] as I cross the
Fulton ferry

Others will see the flow
of the river, also,
Others will see on both
sides the city of 
New York and the city
of Brooklyn
A hundred years hence others
will see them.
Two hundred years--may
???????????

I too [have crossed] many and
many a time have crossed 
the ferry
I have watched the
sea=gulls flapping
their wings -- [I have]
I have seen them floating with
motionless wings high 
in the air at
sunset, just oscillating
their bodies.
I have seen the [bright] glistening
yellow light parts
of their bodies and
[leave] the rest in 
strong shadow
I have seen them
[thus afa afar off] high up 
slowly wheeling in
circles, edging slowly to the
northThe newer better principle
through all my poems. - (dramas
novels, compositions of any sort.)
   Present only great characters,
good, loving characters, - 
   Present the best phases of
character, that any one, man
or woman is eligible to.
   Present noble phases of
character for young men

      [A] Combination
I must combine the tenderness
and trembling sympathetic manliness
of Jean Paul with the strength
of Homer, and the perfect
reason of Shakespeare,

I have [ga] looked toward
the lower bay to
notice the arriving
ships,
[To] I have looked on the 
white sails of the 
[cl] clean ..
the sailors at work in the 
rigging,
The swift current, the [t] white
[track] froth & wake left by the paddles
of the steamboats
The gray walls of granite
storehouses near the
docks, - the [swift]
quick tremulous motion
of the flukes of the 
wheels
The flags on the tops of theYou may have but a few
to (fully) understand you.--Nevertheless 
that few is to rule rules 
the world.--

or woman is eligible to
Present noble phases of
character for young men

[A] Combination 
I must combine the tenderness
and trembling sympathetic manliness
of Jean Paul with the strength
of Homer, and the perfect
reason of Shakespeare,

The [dancing] edged waves, the
[but] scooped cups,
and the dancing
motion,
The yellow masts.  The
pilots in their pilot houses,
the sailors at work in the 
rigging,
The swift current, the [t] while
frothy wake [brack] left by the paddles
of the steamboats
The gray walls of granite
storehouses near the
docks, -- the [swift]
quick tremulous motion
of the flukes of the 
wheels
The flags on the tops of theConvey what I want
to convey by models or
illustrations of the results
I demand. -- Convey these
by characters, selections
of incidents and behaviour.
   This indirect mode
of attack is better than
all direct modes of attack,

   The spirit of the above
should pervade all
my poems.

   Avoid all the "intellectual
subtleties," and "withering doubts"
and "blasted hopes" and "unrequited
loves", and "ennui" and "wretchedness"
and the whole of the lurid
and artistical and melo=dramatic
effects.--Preserve perfect calmness and sanity

and hurried
The continual crowd of
men and women crossing
The reflection of the sky
in the water--the [white] blinding
dazzle in a track from 
the most declined sun.
The lighters -- the sailors
in their picturesque costumes

The nimbus of light
around [y] the shadow of my
head in the ????

What is it now
between us?-- Is[t]
it a score of years?
or a hundred years?
or five hundred years?
Whatever it is, it avails
not ... distance avails not
and place avails not.In the best poems
appears the human
body, [fully-formed] well-formed, natural,
accepting itself, unaware
[that] of shame, loving
that which is necessary 
to make it complete,
proud of its strength,
active, receptive,
a father, a mother,

   Should pervade all
my poems.

   Avoid all the "intellectual
subtleties", and "withering doubts"
and "blasted hopes" and "unrequited
loves", and "ennui", and "wretchedness"
and the whole of the lurid
and artistical and melo=dramatic
effects. -- Preserve perfect calmness and sanity

Full poem

I too have
   have ---  have --

I too have --   --   --
felt the curious
questions come upon

In the ??? day they came 
In the silence of the night
came upon me.

What is it now
between us? --Is[t]
it a score of years?
or a hundred years?
or five hundred years?
Whatever it is, it avails
not....distance avails not
place avails not.They exfoliate

pork??? packing

The [heaps of the] slaugh?? pork--the carcasses
of pork [the]  ?????litered [The 
slaughtering]-- men
in oil skin
overalls--The
[scalding ????] ???????--
--the packing--
The killing ham?men--the
hog hook-- the gutting

over

I [also] too lived.
I too walked upon
the ????? earth,
and bathed in the
sea

P????ed, ????? wavered,

I too was [covered] pre??? the
fl???? ???vating held at
in solution
I too was cohered and received
identity [by] through my body,
Of ????? I had, I had
Nothing except ????? body
Of all that I have or
shall have,  it is the
sameIdea to pervade largely

Eligibility--I, you, any one
eligible to the condition
or attributes or advantages
of any being, no matter
who--
Feb.  Make no puns
funny remarks   /nothing to
Double entendres   /excite a 
"witty" remarks  /laugh
ironies
Sarcasms   /silence
--only that which   /silence
is simply earnest;  /silence
meant,--harmless   /laconic
to any one's feelings   /taciturn
--unadorned
--unvarnished

That I am is of my
body, and what I am
is of my body

[That I]
*What belongs to me .... that
it does not yet spread
in the spread of the
universe I owe to my body
? tr uh * What identity [soul] I am, I owe
to my body....what
[What] soul I owe to my
body.
Of all that I have had
I have had nothing except
through my body,
Of the make of my body
was not my mortal experience
My body makes my immortal experience
He does not
I do not (wish to) spend
my life in a corner
I do not [bec] go away
conspicuous persons
either

to produce
such a public that
great performances will
 not be received with 
noisy applause but 
as matters of course.

Drenched with joy,--
had my friends, loved
them, was loved by them,
--was irritated--saw
hundreds of men and women
I loved, yet never told
them so.
Had my hopes and dreams,
--laughed, slept,
had my amours, friendships,
I too --approaching or passing. was called [too] by
name by the clear
prompt voices of my [the] friends
[I as who] as they saw me [as]
[I] passing or approaching[I am] Of me the good comes
by ??ristly for it,
I am not he bringing
ointments and soft
wool for you,
I am he with whom
you must wrestle.
....I am

[If] The good of you is
not in me ....the
good of you is
altogether in yourself.
I am the one who.
indicates, and the
one who provokes
and tantalizes

You [that are]
wayward, vain, [a blabber,]
blabbed, blushed
resented, was shallow ambitious
curious, fearful, lied,
stole, adulterous,
[emerged from] a
solitary committer,
greedy, grudging,
--the wolf, the snake
the hog not altogether wanting [emerging at]
the covetous wish--the
frivolous word--the
cheating look--

had guile, lust, hot wishes I dared
not speak.
Refused my love to those that gave
me theirs
It is not you above who [are a??] know what it is to be these
I too know what it was to be these,--

The area of pens of
live pork--the
killing=hammer--the
men in their oil=skin
overalls--the hog=hook
--the scalder's [the] tub
--the cutter's cleavers--
the gutting [gutting cutting, packing,]
the packers maul, and
the plenteous winter
[work of pork packing]

mufti
ulema

Tighter yet may the bands
be drawn,
What thought you have of
me, I [have] had as
much and more than
as much of you,
I have laid up [great] my 
stores in advance—
for I [have thought]
considered long  and friendlily
of you before you
were born.—
Who knows but all shall come 
home to my soul?
Who knows but there are 
consequences [coming] to me seasons
and centuries afterward
Who knows but I am looking
at you now, for all
you cannot see me?I say the land that
has a place for
slaves and the
[ma] owners of slaves
has no place for
freemen.--

As to her
She is mine - ma femme


The gross and soiled she
moved away and was
with without repugnance
did not make her
gross and soiled
Wherever I go I believe
I shall often return
There are many words and
deeds that will happen
that will allure me.

[That] Where any one thinks of me
or wishes me that will allure
me,
Where the happy young
husband and wife
are, and the happy
old husband and wife ar, will all [?me?]Not only American literature
but the structures of American social intercourse
are household life, are growing up
in [utter scorn of] total severance from the roots
and trunks and branches
[?][?] growth

As to her
She is mine - ma femme


I believe whatever happens
I shall not forget
this earth,
I believe I shall walk
and walk among
men and women.-
Wherever I go I believe
I shall often return
There are many words and
deeds that will happen
that will allure me.

[That] Where any one thinks of me
or wishes me that will allure
me,
Where the happy young
husband and wife
are and the happy
old husband and wife are, will all
[?]{"I greet you at the
beginning of a great
career."
R. W. Emerson

Where [the] the great renunciation
is made in secret,  that
will allure me.
Where personal love reaches
toward me, that will
allure me....to the 
prisoner in his cell, 
or the slave, or the 
solitary sick person, it will
certainly allure me,

I do not know what is waiting for
me, to be-- [nor what the being
of it shal will exhibit]
But I know that I shall be 
[I know] in great form and nature
I cannot prove it to you
or any one....but I
know it is so.*Full Poem--indicating, any
way. (loosely) the illustrations of the
true female character.

The violent oaths [of the drivers,]
the [blackguard] hiccupping song of the
drunkard, the smutty expression 
....the quarrel, none of these
annoyed [heard] her,
She heard them....she 
heard the taunt, the
accusation, the rank words.
She knew as she passed the thoughts of
the young men....She was not the less
considerate or friendly
toward them, nothing
was concealed from her,
....she was aware...
she saw the doers of all 
these,They did not wound her
....she was possessed of herself....
....she received them
as the air received them,
or as the laws of nature
received them,
She [wa] too [herself] was a law in
nature....she was
[the greatest law....] as great as any....

she was maternity

What made [the] [?beating? girl] and
What made the sensible sweet tempered woman
&c that men so love.
What makes [*made*] the best daughter
and the most beloved of her 
parents.
What makes [*made*] the best wife,
the chaste equal of
the husband, fully bearing
her share,More than
Her wholesome and

She was silent and
then
Yet she loved them when
she saw them or
passed among them.--

What made [the] healthy girl [and]
What made the sensible sweet-tempered woman
 that men so love.
What makes [made] the best daughter
and the most beloved of her
parents,
What makes [made] the best wife,
the chaste equal of
the husband, fully bearing
her share,What made [the best] home where her
presence was
What       the performance of 
all the housekeeping duties,
What made the mother
of [the best children,]
[....] brave and athletic
children.
What made the love that
clung to her through
through the growth
and marriage of her 
children, and then old
age just the same
She was ...Would you like to know
what to produce?
Produce great persons...
all the rest will surely
follow

Missing vessels (ships)
at sea--never heard of
--The schooner of
Uncle Dan's soul.
The Pacific

*What the earth is and
where the earth is and will allure me
Not more spiritual, not
more divine and beautiful
than this earth

Say to Slavery
Go, and return no
more.

To young men for artists—
To Rome! (sarcastic)—Go study the
human figure—study
anatomy—study it along
the wharfs and levess, the
'long shoreman, [pulling r]
hoisting and lowering cargos—
study the pose of the 
drivers of horses—There is more [ado]
hullabaloo [raised about] made for
the [unlawful] hourly whims of
these 350,000 slave holders,
than, [than would be]
[made about] has ever been
made, or ever will be made,
about the [whole] lives on
earth, and the eternal
lives afterwards of the
[thirty millions of] whole main
body of the inhabitants
of these states, [the] the good thirty
millions of men, women,
and children.bay
RR
M Kilben st
200 ftThe Spanish dance
with castanets in the
chestnut shade to the
rebeck and guitar

--The courage [of] and
nimbleness of the
matador

I her the careless song, the song
of the muleteer loading 
his panniers with
grapes

I see the lithe matador in the arena at Seville

I see the Brazilian
vaquero on horseback with his
lasso coiled on his 
armI think the genius our continent 
has complacently gone to
sleep, these years, satisfied 
with having produced the
men of the times

The cities confer with
each other from across
[oceans] two thousand miles--the continent 
[are] talk under the
[bottoms] waves of 
seas

Lesson for beginners.--
Write every thing--especially
poems--well. [Doing]
mostly because doing well
passes into a habit--
the best habit of art.--Where the women enter the
public assembly the
[same as the men]
Where [they] women walk in the
[streets] great processions
in the streets the same as the men,
Where the enter the 
public assembly and
take these places the
same as the men,
and are appealed to
by the orators the same
as the men

The water=carriers on a
stooping=trot--

The [t] three=year=old child 
sweeping

Where women [mixing] mix in
[with] healthy games, the
same as men--
Where they run, leap,
ride, swim, [leading]
play at out=door
plays, the same as
men,Poem
holding in terrorism
over the heads of men
the sure results of
all evil

I see Christ eating 
his last supper,
with the young and
old men around himOnly first rate
The only first rate best poem [with] hsed?
the quality of arousing 
[those] men and women who hear them
or read them those tho

He [sees] so looks at
men through the telescope
that they are enlarged
--while all others reverse
the telescope and [lo]
behold [man] minnikins--


axiom for laws. for
punishments--
No punishment shall 
be provided for the
sailor, soldier, or
        without it being
strictly eligible to
be inflicted on the
officers, even to the 
commander in chief.--Only first rate
The best poems [with] ?sed
the quality of arousing ??
[those]men and women who hear thi???
or read them those tha???

axiom for laws. for 
punishments--
No punishment shall 
be provided for the
sailor, soldier, or
without its being
strictly eligible to 
be inflicted on the
???llicers, even to ???cumber
=tree) mulberry.Only first rate 
The best poems have 
the quality of arousing in
[those] men and women who hear them
or read them those effects thoughts
that no words can ever
describe - effects which
themselves cannot be 
described - great effects, 
proportioned to the ideas,
[cha] images, and characters
of the poem.--

Axiom for laws. for
punishments--
No punishment shall
be provided for the 
sailor soldier orCallin's Indians plates
Leggett's 88 Nassau
Valentines NY
same place

In conversation, discussion,
intercourse be --not to take
the position (or drift the
talk that way.) of one
wanting compliments--this
must be real, because if 
the wanting compliments exists
it will show out some how.Catlin's Indians plates 
Leggett's  88 Nassau
Valentines  NY 
sav?? place

In conversation, discussion,  
intercourse, bc. not to take
the position (or drift the
talk that way.) of one
wanting compliments  --  this
must be real , because if 
the wanting compliments exists
  it will show out some how.For [battle's] broad-axe-- See acct of 
the sack of Rome in 1527
"sweeping, on with that horde of 
Spanish bigots and German unbelievers
and Italian brigands to the sack
of the old great city

I see
The telegraph lines of 
the earth 
the crowbar, pickaxe shovel, spade,
[shovel,]
the flail, 

axe-- Firemen using
the axe to cut in 
floors or partitions, when
the fire is under the floor
[— or using the axe anyhow.]American literature society is settling
itself [as if for good] in utter
defiance of American principles.
It is settling itself in accordance 
with European principles
and on a far larger scale
than the European scale
- as much larger as the American 
proportions are larger than 
the European proportions. --
The modes on which it
arranges itself involve the 
idea of caste - involve
servants, masters, superiors
inferiors.--
Under the American forms 
much [if not] something most 
that is expressed is the 
European idea of caste,
inferiority

Poem - comprehending the
[idea] sentiment of 
soliciting
Helō!
Halout Hellō!
Halow!O days of the present
I will attire you 
in beauty
I will attire you in 
as much beauty as 
the days that are 
past

N.Y Sun
N.J. Sunday Herald
Journal of Commerce
Courier + Enquirer

Full poem
Theme - that which
[There is something] 
involves gladness, joy, -- all out--

Edward H Discon
Editor Scalpel
42 Fifth Av

Oil works, --candle makingStillman + Durand
care of F. W. Christern
763 Broadway
- Sunday Courier 15 Spruce
- Sunday Mercury 22 Spruce 
- Sunday Times 162 Nassau 
- Daily News 129 Nassau st 2d story
- Irish American  116 Nassau
- Sunday Leader 25 Chambers st
- Leslie's Illustrated News
12 Spruce st
- Young America 98 Nassau
- Citizen; 10 Spruce
Police Gazette, 103 Nassau
- Ledger 120 Nassau
- Yankee Notions 98 Nassau
Harper's Magazine, Franklin Square

I have seen at night from the foundry chimneys
Where the fires into the night burn high
and glaringly and cast
strong contrasts of
darkness and wild 
red and yellow light
over the tops of 
the houses, and 
down into the 
clefts, [of] the streets,

- Picayune, 114 Nassau
Clipper, 102 Nassau
Observer, 138 Nassau
Churchman
room 40 Trinity Building
111 Broadway
American Celt
 cor Ann + Nassau 
Independent 
22 Beekman"Sight & Hearing"
C. Scribner

"Stories of the Italian
Poets," by Leigh Hunt.

Full poem
[and] For the dying
treating them and talking to them
courageously -- 
no whining or praying or tears

I have all lives, all effects,
all hidden invisibly in
myself ....they proceed 
from me

Gist of my books

To give others, readers,
people, the materials 
to decide for themselves,
and know, or grow
toward knowing, with cleanliness
and strength"Sight & Hearing"
C Scribner

"Stories of the Italian 
Poets," by Leigh Hunt.

Full poem
[and] For the dying
treating them and talking to them
courageously--
no whining or praying or tears

I have all lives, all effects,
all hidden invisibly in
myself....they proceed
from me

Gist of my books

To give others, readers,
people, the materials 
to decide for themselves,
and know, or grow
toward knowing, with cleanliness
and strengthJoseph Velson 130 Suffolk
5 x 6 x 12 x
-- with moderate arch

Mechanic's Coffee & Ready Rooms
corner 10th St & Avenue D.

Hewetts pamph
"on the way of
iron"

Miss Libby
cor Willoughby & Duffield

49 Madison St

Shirty Mr. Rhoades
244 Bleecker

Map of Mountains & Rivers 
wholesale 90 cts.
Wells 140 Nassau St.

Map of the World
wholesale 90 cts 

The world's standards & costumes
charts in sheets - wholesale colored 38

70 in paper
5 in cloth & gilt
Nov. 23
1855
"For Sailors of All
Nations"

Inscription on the 
monument in Evergreens
Cemetery -- a simple
round column with 
a square cap
supporting a representation 
of the globe on which
the seas and the 
shores of the continents 
are outlined


Off the hills of Abyssinia 
the beautiful, strong black
active Abyssinians