FEINBERG/WITHMAN     NOTES and NOTEBOOKS    NOTES--Misc.      UNDATED
Box 41 Folder 31

On the Thought of God           On the Thought of God : note.   A.MS.    (1p. 19 1/2 x 13 cm.)

Written in pencil on one side of half a leaf of ruled paper torn
from a notebook, with corrections and changes. About 70 words
(2 words in ink inserted) : ' on the ever-recurring thought of
God in [the] history through time,  through all successions of
events, [equally aptent in all], not confined to one race or nation
or era or government or theology, equally patent in all, [relative]
as much relative as absolute, [in all the past & the the Old World],
[as much as the same as] and in the present and the New World, the
same as the past & old'   /MS breaks off here/.   This MS was given
by Whitman to J. H. Johnston to [his daughter] Mary Johnston author of To
Have and to Hold, with a note on the back of a photo : 'Miss Mary
Johnston from John H. Johnston New York Walt Witmans Photo and
Manuscript  May 1900.'W. W. Autograph Ms.  "On the Thought of God."

Presented by W .W. to J. H. Johston. By J .H.J.
to Mary Johnston, author of "To Have and To
Hold," etc.on the ever recurring thought of God in [the] history,
through time, through all successions
of events, [equally patent in all], 
not confined to one race or nation or era
or government or theology, equally patent in all,
[relative] as much relative as absolute,
and in [in all the past & Old World, as]
[much as the same as] the present and the New
         World, the same as the past & old[*10*]

[*NUNQUAM NON PARATUS*]

Miss Mary Johnston
         from
John H Johnston
                     New York

Walt Whitmans Photo
and manuscript

May 1900 :