Feinberg -- Whitman    Notes and Notebooks    Notes--Literary     (1880-81)    Comrades (leaflet)
Box 39   Folder 24[*<Acc. 19,078>*]

Philadelphia PA.  
June 3 - 1896.

This was used along in 1880 - 1881. 

Leaflets,
Walt Whitmans,
Mr. Whitman made little
pocket memorandum books
out of sheets of writing paper.
In these he wrote down
thoughts or made rough
drafts of poems or prose
work. This is one of them.
He carried them about in
his pocket - so as to have
paper on hand.
All of the writing in this
book is in his hand.
Thomas DonaldsonWalt WhitmanDepartures
two or three of 
them-(death 
frequent 
departuresPoemet
embodying the idea
I wander [through]
along my life 
hurl even-- meeting with 
comrades 
Therefore 

--I have not met 
my life has not 
[absorbed] & occup 
& drawn out my 
love for comrades 

How I have not 
met them 

Therefore I have
put my passionate
love of comrades 
in my poems