FEINBERG/WHITMAN      NOTES and NOTEBOOKS     NOTES -- MISC.     <1863>    On the art of lecturing     (DCN20)
Box 40     Folder 59                             (short lectures)962
Short Lectures: prose. A.MS. (5p. 20 x 16, 20 x 16, 16 x
20, 32 x 20, 16 x 10 cm.)
Written in ink, with some of the corrections in pencil, on 5 pieces
(all of which seem to have come from the same kind of larger
sheets) of various sizes; verso of each blank, except one (which
has, in pencil, 'Sands and Drift' at very top, and a draft of an
ad, cancelled: 'Mrs. Louisa Whitman, Portland av. first house north
of Myrtle av. - has[ an airy and] a pleasant and healthy location --
large new house -- has several fine unfurnished rooms, to let with board.'), 59, 83,
110, 122, 58 (=432) words:
Short lectures---
--[No] A lecture need not occupy more than an hour, or at [not]
most seventy-five minutes, in its delivery-- [it] Cull out
from the MS mass of verbiage - The elocution should be full of
pauses and of that style of vocalism which makes a little matter
go a great way in the deliver. -- Yes -- short Lectures
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<2>
Abrupt sentences - Concise
Lectures (?Readings,)
Agonistic Arena
Short, Lapidary, and fit for an original and vital style of
elocution
(not taking more than an hour to be delivered.)
The whole presentation, from its directness to you, audience -
from the amazing, and splendid, athletic magnetism of its vocalization --
and from [its] the charm of its abandon and hauteur
and imperative
decision
making, merely as an entertainment = attraction, something far [more] beyond
any of the ordinary attractions of the theatres [plays], the minstrels, 
concerts, &c.--       /
America
<3>   Examine closely all the[historical] past lands of fame and history,
[and you how]-- they all petty and crimped in comparison with
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Short Lectures: 2 

in lectures the sense
of directly addressing people. -- you 
a live audience of 
men and women -- 
-- as distinct from -- 
a tame [MS burned] literary 
statement [ " ]  read - 

the [flowing] variety -- the 
flowing and cosmical 
area of These States 
--[I] A similar thought 
I give you about past 
heroes - the greatest and best 
of them -- namely, that 

[burned] [in] to America must and shall [arise] be born 
her own gods, prophets, ? and divinest captains and 
-- her own breed-- 
-- [on] her own large and athletic type -- 
sailors -- transcending all that have ? been recorded / 

[4] Important Premise of Literary Composition 
for Elocutionary 
Purposes, Lectures, &c 

That the literary form, the sentences (short, generally,) 

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paragraphs, all, should [fa] invariably be [se-eenstituted-as-to fuse] [such] made
with reference to a perfect
[ar-with-ar] elgibility [to] for declaratory effects, and an irresitible
latent vocal power and effect--not theatrical, but more determined
and live than that--

Attend especially to the openings of
Lectures, Readings, &c.--
Begin with suppressed power, still, kept
back,

Lecture on The Present Times
The Unsurpassed Grandeur
of The Present Times
(as opposed to the carping and
despairing of Carlyle)

Of Europe Asia &c
While the (different representative
events going on in Europe,
and Asia, previous to
American, or in the
beginning of America
[*966*]
Short Lectures: 3
5 The broad and sweeping method of
the Italian
masters in
music
Style.
Free, rich, broad and full of strength and suppleness
(As Consuelos [style of singing] Italian method in the village church with Hadyn--
which first confounded, then scandalized, then [made] carried away 
and made enthusiastic, the congregation)
Short Lecture
Broad, frr, abrupt
sentences--not descending
to details---Important Premise of Literary Composition
for Elocutionary
Purposes, Lecture, &c

That the literary form, the sentences
(short, generally,) paragraphs, all, should [fa] 
invariably be [so] [such constituted as to fuse] made
[in with] with reference to a perfect [?] eligibility [to] for declamatory 
effects, and an irresistible latent vocal 
power and effect--not theatrical, but 
more determined and live than that--

Attend especially to the openings of
Lectures, Readings, &c.--
Begin with suppressed power, still, kept
back,

Lecture on The Present Times
The Unsurpassed Grandeur
of The Present Times
(as opposed to the carping and
despairing of Carlyle)

Of Europe Asia &c
While the (different representative
events going on in Europe,
and Asia, previous to
America, or in the
beginning of America[picture of a left hand pointing]
Abrupt sentences - Concise
Lectures (?Readings)
Agonistic Arena 
Short, Lapidary and fit 
for an original and vital
style of elocution 
(not taking more than an hour to be
delivered.)
The whole presentation, from its
directness to you, audience - from
the amazing, [and]  splendid, athletic  
magnetism of its vocalisation 
and from [its] the charm 
of its abandon [and]
and imperative
hauteur, and imperative, decision 
making, merely as an entertainment :
attraction, something far [more]
beyond any of the ordinary attractions
of the [plays] theatres, the minstrels, concerts, &c.America

Examine closely all the [historical] past lands
of fame and history , [and you - ] [how - ] they 
all petty and crimped in comparison with
the [flowing] variety - 
the flow'g and cosmical area 
of These States
in lectures the sense
of directly addressing people--you
a live audience of men and women--
— as distinct from — 
a tame [???] literary 
[?tement] [??] read — 

— [I] A similar thought 
I give you about past 
heroes — the greatest and best 
of them — namely, that 
[in] to America must and shall [arise] be born 
her own gods, prophets, her own breed — her own large and athletic type — and divinest captains and
sailors — transcending all that have ?been recorded

Style.

The broad and sweeping method of
the Italian
masters in music

Free, rich, broad
and full of strength
and suppleness
(as Consuelo's [style of] Italian method
[singing] in the village church
with Hadyn — which first
confounded, then scandalized, 
then [made] carried away
and made enthusiastic,
the congregation)

[1] 2 
Short lecture
Broad, free, abrupt
sentences — not descending
to details — Short lectures

[No] A lecture need not
occupy more than an
hour, or at [not] most
seventy : five minutes, in its
delivery - [A[ Cull out
from the MS mass of
verbage - The elocution 
should be full of pauses
and of that style of vocalism
which makes a little
matter go a great way in
the delivery - yes - short 
LecturesSands and Drift

Mrs. Louisa Whitman,
Portland av. first house north
of Myrtle av. [has - an
airy and] a pleasant and
healthy location - large
new house - has several
fine unfurnished rooms to let with board.