FEINBERG/WHITMAN  NOTES and NOTEBOOKS  NOTES -- Printing & Pub.  June 21,1888  Note to Proof Reader
Box 42 Folder 11

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1888   21 June   Note to Proof Reader. A.MS. (1 p. 6 1/2 x 28 cm.)

Written in pencil (or ink?) in the margin of a proof, which
has been cut off, with notation in Traubel's hand ('written
by W.W.   June 21, 1888') 86 words:

To proof reader - My dear Sir, I shall mainly have to depend on
you - Shall mainly have to rely on your judgment & the copy - I
find my brain has no grip on the copy & proof --

I have done the best I can -- my head is sick & weak -- after
the corrections & renewed pagination ([36] 46 to 55) with the
added matter &c. I w'd like revised proof (complete set) -- will
send it back by noon (if Mr Traubel will come over & get it)

(See With Walt Whitman in Camden, I, 366.)

WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN
Vol. 1, P. 366

Yesterday W. wrote this on the margin of one of the proofs:
"To proof reader - My dear sir, I shall mainly have to depend
on you - shall mainly have to rely on your judgment and the
copy - I find my brain has no grip on the copy and proof - I
have done the best I can - my head is sick and weak - after
the corrections and renewed pagination (45 to 55) with the
added matter &c. I w'd like revised proof (complete set) - 
will send it back at noon (if Mr. Traubel will come over and
get it)." W. said of this to me: "It's just about so - you
and the proof-reader will have to do the work - I don't seem
to be worth my weight in feathers."

My dear Sir, I [?] mainly have to
[?depend?] on you.  Shall [?] home with your judgment & the copy
I found my brother has [???] on the copy & [?]
I have [????]  My story is first & west
after the [???]  45 to 55)
I wd like revised [??] - will send it
back by noon (if [??] will come over and get it)

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