FEINBERG/WHITMAN 
Box 39 Folder 31

NOTES and NOTEBOOKS

NOTES -- Literary 

1889 Recalles

Includes verso letter from Herbert Grant, u.d.83
1889 Recalles: prose note. A. MS. (1p. 22 1/2 x 9 1/2 cm.)
Written in pencil on the back of a trimmed piece of a discarded letter from 
Herbert Grant (which reads: '...much trouble about it, but I could 
not get it from our publishers here. Very sorry to see that 
Leaves of Grass has been a Commercial failure. I should think the 
little Canterbury Edition has had a good sale in this country. 
Anyway the future races will learn its value. Again thanks. Yours
Sincerely Herbert Grant'), about 90 words with changes, the whole 
cancelled by diagonal strokes: 

Recalles.
Though not at all certain that they are worth recalling and
printing I while away part of [this] my 71st year-- [my] hours of [the]
[my] idle anchorage and forced confinement in my "den" -- [so in this]
[71st year] with the following excerpts, scraps, torn-out sentences 
-- [all] from all moods and ages -- [accumulated from] through youth,
maturity, mid and old age. They have accumulated and now lie
around me in a litter of debris, half defaced writing, on the
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floor, in waste-baskets, often trodden most out, &c. &c. [?]Recalles
Though not at all certain that they are worth recalling
and printing  I while away part of [the] my 71st year [many] hours of [The my] idle 
and forced confinement in my "den" --
anchorage [so in this 71st year] with the following 
excerpts, scraps, torn=out sentences -- [all] from all moods and ages [accomp??] through I [from]
youth, maturity, mid and old age.  They have accumulated and now lie around
me in a litter of Debris-- half-defaced writing, on the 
often trodden most [?],
[floor in waste-baskets, etc. etc.]Much trouble about it, but I could not
get it from our publishers here.
Very sorry to see that - Leaves of Grass 
has been a Commercial failure. I should 
think the little Canterbury Edition has had 
a good sale in this country. Anyway
the future races will learn its value.
Again thanks,
Your sincerely
Herbert Grant