FEINBERG/WHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTEBOOKS 1857 Trial Lines and Descriptions Box 38 Folder 1 1514 1857 Notebook. A.MS. (214p., plus cover and flyleaves, 14.7 x 9.4 cm.) Written in pencil with a very few in ink in a notebook bound in tan leather, spine worn away, a few pages sewn together, lined pages, many pages clipped out entirely or in part, several pages blank, autograph notations inside front cover and on both sides of flyleaf, flyleaf at back missing, 67 pages blank in addition to 52 entirely missing except for stub, with writing on 100 pages, with names, addresses and descriptions of men and boys at the beginning, then largely notes for poems, 3 calling cards pasted into notebook. Feb 16 '57 [p.?] (8). Transcription of notebook still to be made Box 5 [*medium*] [*1/6 size*] Dick Hunt 68 Stanton (The Human Body by Wilkinson) Mrs. Hicks, widow 73-wooden house Columbia with pillars Audubon the naturalist (75 cts) C.S. Frances Diamond Atlas 12 mo. Morse & Gaston pub Young's Political History, U.S.-Derby & Jackson Lieut. Maury in "Open Arctic Sea" Brooklyn Institute Sat. Dec 20 Mrs. Cornelia Ridgeway 147 South Sixteenth Philadelphia Washington Medallion Steel Pen Presbyterian Quarterly Review see M. W. Dodd Is there any English translation of Scholsser's "History of the Ancient World and its culture" German 1826-34 entree 4/8 Stampede Can and (duck) roturier plebians History of Ancient Art translated from [??] of 2 vols 800. sold by Winckelmann & Phinney Home Journal- [??] Spirit of German Poetry by Joseph Gostick French Literature--Chambers Publication--Spanish Lit Italian Literature--Chambers pub. Schlegels History of Literature viz. Lectures on the Literature of All Nations Trees of America (serial) by R.W. Piper, M.D. Boston, Munroe & Co. System of Physical Geography. By D.M. Warren, 4 to 99 pages pub. by H. Cowperthwaite & Co Adventures in the Wilds of the U.S. and British America by Chas Lanman 2 vols 800. Phil. I. W. Moore Capt. Clias Elementary course of Gymnastics. trans. N.E. Historical & Genealogical Register A.R. Phippon 310 Broadway Mrs. Rose 72 White St or 74 husband engraver name on the door look after Arnold Talford's "Ancient History" 10 vols comprising the political social literary + philosophical histories of Egypt, Assyria, Rome, Greece, &c (English ed, Dix & Edwards 321 Look (same place) at Cyclopedia of Geography Broadway Chas Knight 4 vols, quarto Frank Belfast 70, (or 90) West 27th st Youmans, 63 [2d av.?] Mrs Price 31 Hicks R [B?] Kimball corner first place, Clinton st. 7[h?] McDonough 16 Hanover Place Mrs Chilton 69 Varick St Hank Pierce) (4th av Charly (black hair & eyes - 4th av round face) Albert (Mrs. Joness son) Jack (-4th av. - now in a N.Y. Express [wago?] Frank (Beeswax) Anson W. Truman (oyster Fulton Market Charles Brown (Broadway Brownie) Storrs King (or "Fulton" with Jack [Garrison?] John Schoo[?]ake ([?]) Jakey (James) tall, genteel, friend of Brownie Jay (5th ave) - 139 Bill Moses Shaw 137 Bill (big black round eyes, large coarse) formerly Madison Jo (smallish gall[?] on Fort Green (Irish descent plays ball) Abe (round red pleasant grayish [keeping?] [tally] John Campbell, round, light complexion lymphatic good lovely John (light complex - light gray eyes (legs) light hair Tom Gray smallish [*e? bl? ??*] Edward Smithson (20) full=eyed genteel boy I met often at the ferris Irish or English Jack Swinton tall English (23) at Showering porter [??] Lewis Swinton (in Bangs & Platts) William Phillips (large, light, No 8 engine) (26) Leo (22) No 8 engine (in Showerings) Henry Post (stout mechanic, (26) George Applegate (tallest) Bob Frazee (28) policemen (5-6) slow, mild Cor Myrtle & [Hudson] Raymond Tom Frazee (26) driver, myrtle -mild August (??) Dutch boy (16) with cake Bill (23) round faced, blue eyes, light, Irish hair (5th av) 7th av Harry, conductor, myrtle (Jamaica academy) Jim (new policeman) Irish (round shouldered Oscar Clark (4th av. liquid eyes now clerk in RR. company) Ed. F. Underhill - Tribune 193-23d st Mrs. (lady we hired of in Skillman st. 17 Johnson st 4th av. Tracy (26) [rath] genteel, jovial, "Judge" Tom Harvey (5th av.) smallish, timidish, Irish "Victory" 13 {James Dalton (20) round faced, lymphatic lost front teeth Jack -----(20) head now length NEW. YORK AND CONEY ISLAND, LANDING AT FORT HAMILTON.- The new and splendid steamer AURORA, Capt. ANNING SMITH, will leave as follows for the Season; Leaving Amos-st. at 9 A.M. 12 1/4 and 3 1/4 P.M.; Spring-st. at 9 1/2 A.M., and 12 1/2 and 3 1/4 P.M.; Pier No. 3 North River at 10 A.M., and 1 and 4 P.M. Coney Island, last trip. at 6 1/2 P.M. Fare to Fort Hamilton and Coney Island, 25 cents, for which a return ticket will be given. Full fare for children. Dave (rich, (white hat) rides on Broadway live Jack, (big young fellow, sits corner Adams & Myrtle 4th av. }Arthur, big round sandy hair coarse open Peleg, round head & face, young Wallace, (sailor boy English was in Japan) John Stoothoof, (police South ferry William Davis. (thin from Portland 23d st Bob--(?????? Long Jack (7th av.) James Clark (Drunkard corner Raymond? George Whittock, (tall carman South ferry Jake (75 Broadway 49th William Nash, boy light hair Jim Cunningham (boy without thumb) Johnny Rose Edward Smithson (20) full-eyed genteel boy I meet often at the ferris Irish or English Jack Swinton [?] English (23} at Showerings[?] porter & [?] Lewis Swinton (in Barys & Platts) William Phillips (large, light, No 8 engine) (26) Leo (22) No 8 engine (in Showerings) Henry Post (stout, mechanic, (26) George Applegate (tallest) Bob Fraser (28) policeman (5-6) slow, mild Cor Myrtle & Raymond Hudson Tom Haynes (26) driver, Myrtle - mild- August (Gus) Dutch boy (16) with cake Bill (23) round faced, blue eyes Dave (rich, white hat) rides on Broadway live Jack, (big young fellow, sit corner[?] Adams & Myrtle 4th Av } Arthur, big round sandy hair coarse, open Petey, round head & face, young Wallace, (sailor boy English was in Japan John Stoothoof, (police South fear 4th Av. Brownie (looks something like handsome Mike Packman Jack (policeman round, full [?] lymphatic (eating peanuts night cor Closion & Myrtle Wm Wilson (Broadway - Charles Fuller Johny (round faced in Dunbar's full eyes) liquid and engine house Pete (smallish looks a little like [?] Billy Folk Wm Vanderpugh, (young fellow, sick dark complexion Fulton [?] near City Hall Tom Riley (handsome Irish fighter John Kiernan (loafer, young [...ey?] looking pretty good looking Edward Smithson (20) full-eyed genteel boy [?] Jack Swinton [?] English (23) at [Showerys porter [?] Lewis '' in Barrys + Olally) William Phillips (large, light, no 8 engine) (26) Leo (22) No 8 enginge (in Showerys) Henry Post (stout, mechanic (26) George Applegate (tallest) Bob Fraser (28) policeman (5-6) slow, mild, [?] [?] Tom Haynes (26) driver, mystic Raymond Dave (rich, white hair) rides on Broadway Jack (big jolly fellow sit [?] Adams + Myrtle 4th ow} Arthur, big round sandy hair coarse [o??e?] Petey, round head & free, young\ Wallace, (sailor boy English was in Japan) John Stosthoof, (police South fiery smallish [?]) Pete Dempster (Ca Kent & Myrtle open faced- gay) Charles Held (boy son of Mr Held Mr Banks, (Lo?????e]) Bill, (eug??? Union) 124 4th av 4th{ [?o] (red have large red faces Jennis- take- (yankee) Pete- not driver Felix Mclusky, California Landon Lennon About 325 John Davenport (? ? ?) [Charl?] Smith, 119 a 20, 4th av [?] 815 (about) or 812 [?] Culier (boy in the bath (18) gone to California James (lame boy in front of Samys bank (13) Johnny ("steel trap) Jim (boy with Johnny Grey) Charles (Mr Rider's boy Mike Talloy (or Dally) the thinnest 25 Pete " Tom Egbert (Conductor ([?] open neck ([2*]) Percival de Chifton Robert (Dad) Milton (light [comple???n], (Ohio) 5th [?] Ben Wallis (grosey cor Clermont & Myrtle Edmond Bryant - elder Melville " Henry Taylor (Johny Sachbach) Johny Williams (Policeman of Aleck (friend of Andrew.) Charly Van Dwyne (13) boy on the [Na????] Mr. Mason (Shoemaker (Saw him [?] Andrew Romeś) Jinawk (Kindly Wood) Rewben (in the brand of frame then - now driver) Charly Quail - (Holieman) David Stewart - (No. 12) Peter Ridly ( apple pedlr[peddler]) Abe Sehwovre (yung boy) John Newin (22) small [?] carpenter Dave Roflers Jack (5th av.) full grown black beard - Jerry Boerman small smily; friend of George, Phil Stokey (policy Mayer) Jim Johnson, (saloon & Bark) Woodhall Wavlsey [*?*]Al (Carpenter, [?] fiery shop - close by George Wrights level Ansel Ketchim (with Tomis Lench Alphonso - new - light haired - Amity st. Charley - police wpenmaker[weaponmaker] Jerry - police - looks like Jake Bemaly Charley - elderly [?? while ???] Dave Conchman Holden [*?*] Ed. Small black eyes & frown Bill, big [?] linen coat Bill, big dark complexion). St. Helena George rowling head sidways Jim, (looks like Chatman) Johnny (red faced, small chunky Mr. Fierris, etarlis John Muller redham pope Frial contractor, Jackson[?] [*4th av.*] Jack ([Da??]) light eyed light haired George, coarse complex low forehead, Al yankee, thin medium, black moustache now 5th ave Elisha Jones - foreman Alim Ditchult, small, formerly police now market Hiram Kellium Jim (Jubal Cairus) Billy Stevens Jim Van Brunt Pat (young, neat jocky cap, 8th st. Eugene Charley - filmy eyes, 4th av. Tom Hyer, drish 4th av. Joe Downing (boy often at segar store Olina (tall, (25.) conductor Myrtle come up in carriage Justin (Chousey) boy - (16) blacksmith - come up in the carriage George Lavalette (tipsy) son of surgeon in Naval Hospital Jim Allen (44) met at Dominick Colgan's told me was with me in Hablocks school (Wm Stewart, police captain, tall) Jack Gill (elder) Tom Gill " Bill McCue (Irish - 49th st, snub nose Tom - policeman, cor William & Frankfurt sts Little Dominick (Dominick Colgan's son) Adolphus Davenport (actor) old boy friend of Ansel Jermy's Dave Ackerman, (loner) Charles Edwards, foreman in Lockitts Myrtle Wm Mosscrop' - oyster shop myrtle & [Rine?] Sam Adams - 63 Broadwy Curse light corn Frank (30) 4th av, fat round face looks like Louis Post. Corneil (tow head) 4th av. Bill (36) Grenhaus - from Phil. Dark face, stocky frame Jim Le — young fellow light longish hair out by Cannon Jack (5th av) with the beautiful beard black. Edward (28) yrs Brooklyn man printer in N.Y. Times) (ask Tom McEvoy the name of the guy [?] Geo. Leland) Pat - 203 (Eighth St) [*Met cor Myrtle & Washington and Marsh*] Teunis - round faced brow[e]s with moustache 24 Sam - looks some like Bill 49th india ink on his hand Mike Dally 24 Mike Butler, boy (18) in stone cutters Kent av. George Applegate (tallest) Dan shorter (Myrtle av Market George Wright 16 (boy 16 in plaster ornament shop, Myrtle & Ryerson Charley 22 (fireman in the new drab clothes - 18 N.Y. Martin Evans (36) Ben (19) (tall bony big nosed boy for Hendrickson's express William 35) - tall dark eyed, moustache, & German former Madison av, now Broadway Martha (15) (in Burroughs George (22) (18 - tall mild) John Baulsin (28) (pilot Nassau) John Evans (36) red beard, wrote notice in Wash. Times Chris Pike (30) in office Fulton av cars Thor Shephard (30) pol. 7th W, smallish gray eyes pleasant Patrick Corr 26 (new pol, Irish, boy good looking) George Moore 21 (tall, thin, works sewing machine W. C. Holley D.C. Holley Real Estate 3 or 5 Nassau on the ground floor W Griffith - 83 Prospect A. J. Davis, 137 Spring St. Dr. J. D. Whelpley at Mrs Hildreths cor. Bleeker & Wooster St. Welsh Church 11th St near 3d av. McDonald 335 Broadway room 39 Mrs Bloom 57 High Geo Wheeler 379 55 [79] Mercer Soiree dansante Aleck (big, young, (26) gets out cars at Prince st. Quaker Ed, (4th av. (33) Sam [?] (young fellow I met in Dominick Colgan's John Cunningham tall thin face No 18 Pete (young married man No 18) bad teeth, good eyes Tom Lambert (tall young man mason Myrtle Ave Revand K Field Valentine Carman Hank- (in Geo Douglass Coffee & cakes) Bill ([tall] stout, small mouth, fat, bright blue eyes) (dunbar's) George Golden (black eyes & hair - deaf one ear 49th st) -met with Mike Dally March 24 Myrtle N. Washita{ Dennis - (25) round, brown face, moustache met at Garry Van Dykes Sam - Dark complexion, full eyes (large figures in Indian ink on left hand) Mike Dally Henry Sinclair (hat shop, Myrtle [?] [Canton?] Charley - 131 (4th Av) Wm Husten (young man in Myrtle near Clinton) Sandy (5th Av.) fancy, "hallo Walt.) Tom (foreman (13) "Victory" Wmsburgh David Barnet (boy) (18) in manager's office op. city [?] Billy (138, 4th av) thin consumptive { Elisha Jones { Bill " - ( the Sailor { Dave " 4th { Jack - red faced - marked mouth [av?]{ Tom ( looks something like Frank with Mrs. Hubbard 5th av. Luther Calvin Davis - ( coarse red face Jack MCoon (boy 20 went in Castle Garden with me April 20 ) George Rogers 4th [av.?] has been west 3 years Stephe ( boy with Charly Palmer, black moustache ) Henry Hyer (32) Madison av. thin, bony, bilious - told me of Chinese women Johny (24) 4th av. ( white teeth ) round clear face, brown eyes John Van Lear (5th av. ) fat, lymphatic, no beard Bill ( 4th av ) 27 - medium, dark compl & hair - & eyes - ? Dutch Billy ( tall young, walked up to Gold st. with, night N. H. firemen's procession Elias B. Pierson ( 32 ) 5th av. been in the rebel army in China Jo (Lane) starter Madison av. Wall st Aleck ( tate ( 34 ) 7th av seen him in Clason av Sunday. George ( not Jo ) ("Brushmaker") 4th ave / thin face superb sonorous Wm Craig ( young man - Kent ave.) voice Samuel D. (or E.) [Etten] Van Etten Milford, on the Delaware River, Pennsylvania Go on the New York & Erie R.R. to Port Jervis (fare $2.00 thence by stage to Milford (fare 50 cent) Son (Charly Etten) Charley Hicks (16) boy clear gold complexion & hair - fat - son of Hicks, [??] "Fulton's" engine room Gus White (25) at [?Ferg?] with skeleton boat with Walt [?Bundsin?] - ( 5 foot [?7 or 9?] height - round - well built Timothy Meighan (30) Irish, oranges, Fulton & Concord James Dalton (Engine - Williamsburgh) Charly Fisher (26) 5th av. (hurt, [?diseased?], deprived) Ike (5th av.) 28 - fat, drinks, rode "Fashion" in the great race Jack (4th av) tall, slender, had the [?French?] face ( moderate in talk) Franklin Sivall (4th av) - tallish, gaunt Mike, (Irish) tallest of the two boys at Newmans Dan " least tall [G W Hill?] Cor 18th St K 8th ave George Waldo Hill Talbot 600 Broadway Brittan 333 Broadway Mr. Ives Cor. 4th & South Third over savings Bank Every Monday evening ~ (soirees) Geo [H?] Riblett 319 2d avenue near 21st Who was the Greek poet Pindar? Who Merlin? sto[?] at Fowler & Wells and get paper with "Broadway article" also Prince's catalogue [Engagement of Harrison's Wednesday 3d June] Moses Stern (tailor) 446 Grand st, NY. Mr. Goodfellow 65 - Tenth st R.P Cooke, M.D. Dentist 3 Great Jones st E. D. Carpenter [134 1/2?] W19th Street Swinton 51 MacDougal Street Dr. Ruggles 24 Warren Charley Green (pier 20) A. Brisbane Irvington, N.J. Take Newark train at 3 or 5 get out at Market Street Depot in Newark, and get into the Irvington omnibus Chicago Magazine Ross & [Tow?] [Rangers & Regulators of the Tanaha Robert De Witt] Lectures on Human Voice Eveng's Monday 23rd March & of Thursday, 26th March at University Medical College next to Opera House 14th st. ? Savoir vivre good manners - breeding - gentility - high = style James Gillen (24) drives Myrtle - large country - open faced Albany Bill (Madison av) tall black eyed Bill (beautiful - 1 Blecoke st 8 av]) Jackson L - - 14th av young fellow from Philadelphia Jack (tallish, young Blucker & 2d st) ? Charley (tallish and good [??] liquid eyed 4th av - new hand Charley (East Broadway - formerly in Brooklyn Jack (5th av German birth, black eyes & hair) now Madison av, Jo Baker (23) fine head - 4th av. Mike Morrow Mike - (Bdway) was at Mrs. Hoyts with dressmaker John Brownie-(4th av) tall, genteel ? (Jack) Riley Henry Nelson Hannah William (Bdway) (brother of George, formerly 4th av) [*playing ball*] Pete (Myrtle & Clement &c 19 looks something like George Dave- black eyes 25 George Wood (small moustache Ike (boy myrtle) grey eyes) 13 Geo. Wheeler 79 Mercer one door above Spring Hector Tyndale, 707 Chestnut st. above 7th st. Mrs. Sarah Tyndale, corner Main & High st. Germantown. (Germantown Depot corner 9th & Green sts.) clairvoyance/ vis clear seeing E. C. Jones go over Jersey City ferry take the Morris & Essex RR for Drakesville N.J. Lake Hopatcong 45 miles from N.Y. Sam Bonnard South 6th st. near Grove Jersey City Inquire for J. B. Forrest engraver Truman & Spafford Cincinnati O Robley Cor 18th st & 9th av, Greenwood to women sternly) o you suppose you have ng waiting for yourselves to but to embroider, to and to be respectable modest and to Meserole st. near Bushwick av. Schneider's Build an iron steamboat foot of North Fifth st. Wm Mc Connell sub=contractor five sts. north of Grand Truman & Spafford Cincinnati (to women sternly) Do you suppose you have nothing waiting for yourselves to do, but to embroider, to clean, and to be respectable and modest, and to not swear or drink? (Spooner) William Place (a public house on the Delaware frequented in the spring by raftsmen) Go to Port Jervis ($2) thence by Stage to William Place's, on the route to "Bushville" (Pa) "bold robber" women rely on men the spiritual influence of women, & [????] Mrs. Lyndale's theory * That no State shall be subject to another but each, shall [be free to] itself the [form] [??? judge of its own institution] sole judge of] [found its own institutions] have the sole control of its own institutions, That there shall be real and continual comity between The States, the whole of them, or any two of them, [*?? ??*] Question for Swinton To tell me of Etruria Hemp, corn and tobacco (in Missouri + Kansas [Hold fast of me! I know very well [?] these searched [?] may have to be [read] many times before they [?] come to you, and comply with you [But] But what of that? Has not Nature to be searched many times?] [I know they must be persuaded a long while many times Mrs Ellen Grey Bowey Theatre Cor Hicks & Amity before 10th May tall high house free stone. Wm G. Metzler Tuskilwa Bureau Co Illinois Oude (the oldest city in Hindostan) pop. 10,000 won rifacciamento Bat-ra-chou a om a chy Mrs Ellen Grey Bowey Theatre Co Hicks & Amity before 10th May Oude, (the oldest city in Hindostan) pop. 10,000 - Names of Pieces maybe called Poem (as Poem of W.W. an American) Hymn (as Hymn of the Body) Mrs Ellen Grey Bowey Thea Co Hicks & Amity before 10th Oude (the oldest city in Hindostan) pop. 10,000 In Names of Pieces some maybe called Poem (as Poem of W.W. an American) some " " Hymn (as Hymn of the Body) " " " song as ( " " " simply as (To a Common prostitute " " " Poemet (as Scoville Maiden lane above William st. Mr. I Emlen Randolph Room 229 St Nicholas or 123 South 4th A Phila between 9 + 12 (85 Greene) + 1+5 easy arle Mr. I. Emlen Randolph Room 229 St Nicholas or 123 South 4th A Phil Noon trains from New York arrive at Ruttam at 9 o'clock at night arle great to you That is profitable which you carry with you after death I will carefully earn [?] [the] riches [which I [can] to be carried with me after the death Poem of my body I will . . . . . All poems, or any other expressions of literature, that do no talk with their writers actual life and knowledge are lies. Also Southington Highlands Plainville Station Conn Hartford Fishkill RR James Richardson Jr. 256 Asylum Ave Hartford Edward H. House ) Boston Courier 228 Astor House will make a song that there is no imperfection in man or woman I will make a song that [there each] [thing is] no one thing in the universe is inferior to another, and that all are equally miracles, [*d*] I will make a song that there is nothing more beautiful than death, [*d*] I will make a song that whatever happens to any one may become beautiful Also Southington Heights Plainville Station Conn Hartford Fishkill James Richardson J 256 Asylum A Hartfor Edward H. House Boston Courier 228 Astor House [I will make a song that there is no imperfection in man or woman And I will make a song that [there each] [thing is] no one thing in the universe is inferior to another, and that all are equally miracles. And I will make a song that there is nothing more beautiful than death. And I will make a song that whatever happens to anyone may become beautiful] And I will make a new song of riches, names of the riches of the body and the spririt which are before death and after death Every Poem of any thing must enclose and express the spirituality and joy of that thing (of the train of that thing) - (of those things) - not be a mere didactic Poem of Prophecies - There shall be Finally after all the physical greatness of the city is attained - after the architecture of the house is finished. Then what of the man in the city house? What of the women? - What is a great city or a great house, without great men? great women? Poem of Prophecies - There shall be (containing prophecies - of all that will probably be in fifty, a hundred, two hundred &c years hence - - doctrinaire - theorist - Strong conviction Not to volunteer, interfere, or ask questions - Always reality - no "funning no wit - no ["imaginations"] [or] ornament [Poem of (after death)] The eliptical style for orations operas I will be the originator the inventor [Poem of (after death)] The eliptical style for orations operas I will be the originator the inventor That the esctacy of (Poem of (after death)) The eliptical style for orations operas I will be the originator the inventor That the extacy of the pythia, the oracles - the divine rage afflatus - that of Christ Hercules the are just of as eligible nor Motto for all political [philos] action Walt Whitman's terrible Motto. No [?] full ? Poem of Wise Books Poem of the Library (bring in all about the few leadig books, Literature of Egypt. Assyria Persia Hindestan Palestine Pythagoras - Greece - Homer - Iliad Odyssy Plato - Socrates Rome - Virgil Germany - Luther Christ Bible Shakespeare Emerson Rousseau - ("Social Contract") Motto for all Political [philo] action Walt Whitman's terrible Motto. No nation, once fully enslaved, ever fully recovered its liberty.— ( Poem of the Library - first a respectful word to those who in [all] ancient times and in all times, in unknown nations, have written wise words, or taught them - wisdom comes mostly back to the projecter, teller - no matter if no record - [all my poems] do All I [do] write I write to [?] arouse in you a great personality I must not fail to saturate my poems with things substantial, American scenes, climates, names, places, words, [fa] permanent facts (include every important river and mountain animals trees crops, grains, vegetables, flowers celebrate sing the great ante= conditions of the globe the gaseous, watery, (granitic) vegetable [periods] stages - ------------ Poem of Precepts Poem of Joys and Works [vegetable in its natural state, [to eat] not to eat grows not in U.S. foreign production not a fruit not a wood sea sold at drug stores soft.] The greatest thing about a city is - its people [vegetable be it [the same] as if I were with you - Be not too certain but I am with you] Poem [Poem to one three centuries hence or thirty centuries hence [To] [To] I, alert, [formed,] full visible compact, of life, thirty eight years old, To you, yet unborn these. [Now] [As] When you read these, I that was visible am become invisible, Now it is you [are] compact, full of life, realizing [my] [my] my these poems, If I were [here] with you [doubtless] [it] may be we would love another] What would be thought of a surgeon or physician who should be delicate [and modest, and treat of costumes and respect the] and know only the body as it appears in fashionable costumes ? - What is more real than sex ? What is there at all the facts of existence but procreation? - [Yet] These are the very things - what misses these, misses all, there is just the same reason for my poems and what they seek to do, to include sex and procreation, as there is for the [surg] physician to include them Thomas the Rhymer Scotch died 1299 (supposed almost 80 years old) see p 195- 6 - 7 - Scotts' Poems "the importance of the individual - that is the greatest ? saying the - - that is the to - - that is the The idea of grades in the mental condition and development of people - The people [are] in strata - remember the vast largest most continued popular strata ( ? strats) - also the various other strata, those of criminals, those of ignorant persons. - Also, in other countries, under other religions and governments. - For instance, the common people, what they are, with their physique, then social customs amusements, costumes, liberty, slavery, and the rest - This the great fact of grades [comprehends] includes and explains a hundred subordinate facts; without [then] it, the included facts not well understood. [vegetable & mineral no tool, implement or in= strument, not in the room larger than a foot on land is a fiscture[?] outdoors public spectacle figure chiseled on top of a building not on city building on Broadway, no place of amusement bird above is eagle on top above the St. Germain on] Poem of Legacies including all that we have received from the past - - tables, language, figures, measures, literature [court plaster all animal [vegetable] (no) not in the room in town and Country Smaller then[m] your arm not a mecanicks tool not wood not any Diet not any tool Serves in the ground it gives in the north it Bares flowers it is of a fiber not grown on the vine not in Borcea vegetable not of diet not wood in this room not a cigar not sold not about a person does belong to the [pre?] not represent any thg not dry goods not on a level not a cork above the counter fast & freed touched the wall it's paper ? whether the right of voting, legal owns &c. (bg "of age") should not be changed from 21 to 18 years -- Book of Letters ? Poem ?Poem Letter to a Prostitute Letter to felon Letter to one about to die end letter to prostitute -- -- "I salute you [?] love with a kiss on your lips that you do not forget me -- vegetable not of diet not wood in this room not a cigar not sold not about a person does belong to the premise ? whether the right of voting, legal owning &c. (being "of age") should not be changed from 21 to 18 years - ? Poem of American Names The bookbinder's hammer, knife, shears, & folder the standing press, " The [stamping] embossing press, In Poem of Personality - incorporate all the ideas of the Personal Magnetism articles Poem of large Personality ( make this poem for women just as much as men) Personality - pride self=esteem self=appreciation The Dutch parentage of Manhattan, the English of Massachusetts, the [ly] Swedes of New Jersey the young heifer Personality - pride self esteem self-appreciation egotism elevatedness The strap and paddle for the punishment of slaves The young heifer personality - } pride self = esteem self = appreciation egotism elevatedness the strap and paddle for the punishment of slaves the young heifer Make A Poem involving the idea, (expressed in thinks and [acts] moving acts} that in morals and mental results good, evil, &c, there is the same reciprocal play of effect and causes, as in the physical world. When the original men of These States threw off the imperialism of Great Britain, then was dimly roused before the fathers, the vista of a noble government [The Mayor this forenoon issued an order to the various Captains, directing them to call in the men at 4 oclock this afternoon and have them deliver up the city property - the Captains to hold on to the Station Houses till the further action of the Conn Council] Poem of (my brothers and sisters) artists singers, musicans 1,2,3, Ve Our equal friend of all The States. for a Great City The greatest sum of — [The] A city may have great temples, avenues, &c but [it I] in its common people, then [knowledge,] personality, heroism, ruggedness' beauty is strength The greater the reform the greater the personality that is needed. Poem of Tears Can I not make a poem in which the tears drop down in great drops? animal \ & mineral about the \ person not in \ sight about not \ Sam carried in \ pocket moved on a \ joint Belongs to Cale this pen|cil I am wr| iting with 1 - mineral 2 [of] more than a foot 3 not in the room 4 is [some] a conspicuous object in this city - 5 is in an [elevated] [lofty] elevated position 6 in Broadway 7 private property 8 below Canal 9 in front of a house 10 below the first story 11 no figure of any thing Stone mortar stone stoop 12 below North 13 stone 14 above St. Paul's 15 about the doorway [1]16 at a hotel 17 Aston house stoop 18 not the pillars 19 clinic (or clinique) relating to a bed, bed=ridden -(the lectures, or treatment of a surgeon or phys. given off=hand, as he stand by the the patient, [is brought to him)] bevel vegetable not gritty it is wood manufactured it is used as a tool it is used by any of us in this room not used as a support smaller than my arm not require the mouth carried about openly less than a foot has a handle used to strike blows, used by the Am [?] 111111111 mineral manufactured instrument not iron not a mechanic's tool not used by us not for hurt sold not at stores bigger than my fist not used in medicine or surgery, not used by any public officer no precious metal not in this city is in the U.S. not in memory of any person on land not an edifice not as a signal Washington Monument at 14th st. poem of the [Indians] aborigines - introducing every principal aboriginal trait, and name by in [Indi] aboriginal Washington Monument at 14th st. poem of the [Indians] aborigines - introducing every principal aboriginal trait, and name [?] in [Indi] aboriginal traits in poem of (American) Materials Washington Monument at 14th St. poem of the [Indians] aborigines -introducing every principal aboriginal trait, and name May bring in [Indi] aboriginal traits in poem of (American) Materials (square) Mineral not in this room manufactured sold at stores hardware stores |& drug stores not taken in the stomach sometimes, used in surgery iron and steel not an edged tool of any sort no application to persons instrument no handle mechanic carpenters sometimes more than 9 inches sometimes less smooth [one] points joint Poem of Criminals Now I [take] betake myself from all others, and go away criminally - square Mineral not in this room manufactured sold at stores hardware stores/& drug stores not taken in the stomach sometimes, used in surgery in Poems somewhere put in the Dutch liberty, conscientiousness and good natured tolerance - the settling spirit of Manhattan island - and its prevaling characteristic to this day America brings to the [judgem] test of characters and heroism [entirely far larger] her own large and new standards ? A poem (or passage in a poem) giving an account of my way of making a poem Poemet Poemot eat here every day, grows in a lump (no mg be either meals or not grows both north & south no shell generally cooked eaten at this counter sometimes sold by the bushel smaller or larger than Jack's fist whitish meat eat here every day, grows in a lump [no] may be either mealy or not Mineral quite certain not in the room, something made through the use of fire [iron] steel smaller carried about one not a part of another [A] article not (a part) used about the toilet used by any one nothing to do with sound It is [not any more] no more in the rythmic legends than in all else, It is not in the old books - it is not in [old books,] the [the] rythmic legends, — nor [in w] it has not descended [to] in [the] books any more than all else, ? Poem of the Past [What of the past] Poemet. [What is the poem of the Past I was] I was looking a long while for the poem of the Past and now I have found it It is the Present -- it is [the] this Earth to=day, and [all] [t] [Ame] this America, and all languages and inventions It is the [long] broad show of artificial things, ships, [international commer] [exchanges, books,] and the interchanges of nations animal & vegetable in this room not used by drivers worn above the waist not the neck complete in [?] a Poem expressing the sentiment of the joy of old age — of an old person (? or in the poems of Joys.) O my old [age] manhood! my joy! My children and grandchildren! My white hair and beard! My [calmness] largeness, calmness and [peace] majesty from [many] many years! handsome room, gilt chandeliers white = neckcloths - - quaker[?] looking horse=shoe line of men -- homily of a reverend gentleman-- room about one=quarter full a regular yankee Dyspeptic faced speaker, with awkward, see=saw gestures very dry speech, the usual platitudes O the [exquisiteness] joy of my womanhood! - O ripened happiness at last! [I am] [my breast have] [suckled many so] I am more than [seventy] eighty years of age, in perfect health[?] - [my] My hair [also] too is pure white -- [I may] I am the most venerable mother [in] [perfect health] - I am complete in myself To me [also] all people [are] [drawn more than] draw nigh - [the] I [fr] attract with more than [I] [all] the attractions of my youth. -- 12 - no legs 13 - houses commonly have these things in them 14 - mostly in the kitchen, parlor and bedroom 15 not used about the fire nor in preparing any thing for the fire 16 no water 17 - no instrument 18 no kind of a box 19 neither a handle nor handles 20 not pliable foil mineral manufactured in sight used not with food one complete article not as vessel not as large as my hand no matter about the weather not about the person above four feet height not for sale not hung up not handled not on shelf or counter driven in horizontally nail Hindostan, from the western sea. -- [Mother] I look on Mother, at far removes, [even] of these States, Mother of [religions,] languages -- mother of the great idea of [the] avatars, As [of] [looking] (over verses) I look [Like] a child I [turn] [seeing] [his] afar at [the place] at the [my] house of maternity, the land of migrations [As] I [stand] look [off] the shores of my own [the] western sea, to behold the [There then is the] old mother [We] I come westward of me, I From the Himmalehs, from the vast plains, from the north, and from the flowing islands, [how long it is since? how many generations!] [Here] The circle is circled, We face home again as [from] after long travel, growth & sleep 111,111,111,111. 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