FEINBERG/WHITMAN  NOTES and NOTEBOOKS  NOTES--Personal  (Mar. 1876)  Destiny
Box 41 Folder 601235
After 1876 24 March Autobiographical Note. A.MS. (1p. 7 1/4 x 13 cm.)

Written in ink on the back of the top part of a letter to Whitman
from Wilmington, Delaware, dated 24 March 1876, 47 Words:

[It seems to be is evidently] If it is not Walt Whitman's destiny
to write [an immortal] a great Poem, it certainly is [certain he] to
kick up a great row, [and, furthermore, of late, to point a moral,]
[illustrate] both [abroad &] at home & abroadIf it is not
is [evidently]
[It seems to be] Walt Whitman's
destiny to write
[an immortal] a great Poem, it certainly is [certain 
he] to kick up a great row, 
[furthermore], 
[and, of late, to point a moral,]
[illustrate] both [abroad &] 
at home & abroadWilmington, Delaware
Mar. 24th, 1876

Walt Whitman Esg,
D     Sir: