FEINBERG/WHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTEBOOKS 1884(?) Democracy, Government, Box 38 Folder 6 Poetry 1510 1884 ? Notebook. A.MS. (80p. and cover, 15 x 9 cm.) Written in purple (indelible?) pencil, with a few words in pencil, in a notebook, with a brown cover, sewn at the top, with lined pages, some writing on 9 pages, others clipped out or blank, in all, 194 words(with notation by Traubel on front cover: 'One of Walt Whitman's notebooks given by him to me & by me to Mildred & Frank Bain. Horace Traubel 1911): <1>?Plan Outline Draft ?the question remaining after all whether any preface is justifiable? ? A sort of literary Declaration of Independence a page or two or three the war--the time at last arrives for the war-- [essentially the] --the poems are a wheel, and the axis on on which the rest <2 blank> <3> Booth 1511 Forrest Gen Jackson Kossuth <4 blank> <5> [and revolve] and revolve, and from [D] w [is] the war the geography, hydrography, climate of America the prairies the St Lawrence, the Mississippi and Missouri, [the] Niagara, Yosemite Yellowstone, Texas. <6 blank> <7> 1884 19 <8-28 clipped out> <2[?]> Democracy --the essential equality of the people--that government is not 1512 Notebook: 2 only government - but for the training and evolution of the vast crude masses of the people ③make this a strong & ample point <30 blank> <31> [Most pe] It Is or has been considered satisfactor <32> <33-40 clipped out> <41> The best is, too, that [unde] behind all, and holding all, a certain continence and limit that has so far kept [a] [our] us from excess New York <42 blank> <43-50 clipped out> 1513 [<51-60 blank> <61-74 clipped out> <75 blank> <76> [From the first too Two other had from the beginning I may as well say too that neither fashionable literary] <77 blank> <78> Although Homer, Shakspere, and even such as Ossian, and the rest, are of Pasadena <79-80 clipped out> One of Walt Whitman's note books [pieces?] by him to me & by me to [Mils?] died & Frank Bain. -- Horace Traubel 1911 ? Plan Outline Draught ? the question remaining after all whether any preface is justifiable ? a sort of literary Declaration of Independence a page or two or three the war — the time at last arrives for the war — — [essentially the] —- the poems are a wheel, and the axis on on which the rest Booth Forrest Gen Jackson Kossuth [and revolve] and revolve and from [L] w [is] the war the geography, hydrography, climate of America the prairies the St Lawrence the Mississippi and Missouri, the Niagara, Yosemite Yellowstone, Texas. 1884 19 Democracy -the essential equality of the people -that government is not only for government but for the training and evolution of the vast crude masses of the people make this a strong & ample point [most pe] It is or has been considered satisfaction The best is, too, that [unde] behind all, and holding all, a certain countinence and limit [that] has so far kept [us] [ours] us from excess New York [From the first too] [Two other had] [from the beginning] [I may as well] [say too that] [neither fashionable] [literary] Although Homer, Shakspere, and even such as Ossian, and the rest, are of Pasadena Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.