Feinberg/Whitman 
Box 38 Folder 45
Notes and Notebooks
Notes--Brooklyniana
Undated 
Persons and personal characterIn writing my history of Brooklyn 
or Long Island, strain hard to 
bring in persons and personal 
character and identities as 
woven in the settlement and 
growth of the island--The
persons, however, must strictly
conform to the history
--History and all other forms
of literature come to a 
head in persons--942
Brooklyniana. A.MS. (1p. 13 1/2 x 13 cm.) 
Written in pencil on a scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet, 
52 words: 
In writing my History of Brooklyn on Long Island, strain hard 
to bring in persons, and personal character, and identities, as 
woven in the settlement and growth of the island--The persons, how-
ever,  must strictly conform to the history. 
--History, and all other forms of Literature, come to a head in 
persons.--