FEINBERG/ WHITMAN  Notes and Notebooks  Notes- Personal   June 1890 Something very like egotism 
Box 41 Folder 72362
1890 June Something Very Like Egotism: prose.  A. MS.  (1p.  11 x
15 cm.)
Written in ink on the inside of a discarded tan envelope (to
Whitman in Camden from C. L.  Heyde, Burlington, Vermont, 10 June
1890),  78 words:
Of course it is personal (?)
Something very like
[Some] egotism and growling [and egotism] may [edge in my] even
twist the narrative, [for I am a half paralytic rejected by
all the great magazines, and passing my 72d year,] (for I have
been and am rejected by all the great magazines [am passing live
now in my] carry now my 72d [year] annual burden, [and am a half
paralytic, year,] and have been a paralytic for 1[7] 8 years) xxxOf course it is personal
Something very like 
[Some] egotism and growling [and egotism]
may [edge in my] even touch the narrati[ed]ve.
[(for I am a half paralytic]
[rejected by all the great magazines,
and passing my 72d year.)]
(for I have been and am rejected by all
the great magazines [am passing] [live ?]
carry my annual burden, [my] 72d year, [and] [am a half]
[paralytic] [year] and have been 
a paralytic for 14 years[AFTER TEN DAYS RETURN TO]
[VAN NESS AND AMERICAN HOTELS,] 
[WOODBURY, PROPRIETOR,]
[L. S DREW & H.N.  CLARK, Manager,]
BURLINGTON, VERMONT.  

Burlington
Jun10
4PM
90

CL Heyde
Walt Whitman
Camden
New Jersey