FEINBERG/WHITMAN    Notes and Notebooks    Notes--Personal    Jan 20.1890     70th Year (autobiographical note) 
Box  41  Folder  71 527
1890 20 January Autobiographical Note. A.MS. (1p. 23 x 21 1/2 cm.)
Written in ink on a white sheet, cut off at the bottom, with notation
by Traubel in bottom corner (see notes Jan 20 '90), 96 words:
personal
Walt Whitman, though badly dilapidated, physically, is over
his late serious illness, and expects to be about as well as before,
which is not [well] much however. He cannot walk at all, and
keeps his room. He calls the present [trouble] sickness the [sixth]
fifth "whack" of his old war=paralysis and attributes is recuperation
and all his getting over the [rest previously] previous fourth,
to a good inherent constitution. [Says] Every attack "lets a peg
down each time" on his bodily stamina. His good spirits remain.
He is in his [seventyth] seventieth year.personal
Walt Whitman, though badly dilapidated, physically, is overhis late serious 
illness, and expects to be about as well as before, which 
is not [well] much however. He cannot walk at all, and keeps his room. He 
calls the present [trouble] sickness the [sixth] fifth "whack" of 
his old war=paralysis and attributes is recuperation
and all his getting over the [rest previously] previous fourth, to a good inherent constitution. [Says] Every 
attack "lets a peg down each time" on his bodily 
stamina. His good spirits remain. He is in his 
[seventyth] seventieth year.