FEINBERG/WHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTEBOOKS 1870's European Poets and 
Box 38 Folder 4                   Whitman

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1877 Notebook, with note on one page. A.MS. (36p. 19 1/2 x 12 cm.)

Written in pencil (cancelled by a vertical stroke in blue) on p.
[2] of a 36-page--notebook numbers scribbled on p [1]--made by sewing with a pink string 18 lined 
sheets of letterhead ( Department of Justice, Washington....187    ), 
50 words:

here is the first man

the form such a first man really demands a new form

then compares W to European poets
[W ha] they have a sweetness & spice which [they] he has not--but
he--they have tender love--but he is a spirit a live Cheerful soul25
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10
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12,25
10
20Here is the
          first man


The form
such a first
man really
demands  a new
                  form


Then compares  W
to European poets
-W ho they have a
sweetness & spice
    which he [?} has
not  -  but he
-they have tender [?long]
-but he is a spirit
a time Cheerful soul[[top page]]

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