Feinberg/Whitman 
Box 42 Folder 57 
Notes and Notebooks 
Notes-Reference
Undated 
Best Books 382

1889 11 January Best Books: prose. A.MS. (1p. 6 x 21 1/2 cm.) 

Written in ink, with marginalia in Traubel's hand ('see notes Jan 11th 1889'), on a strip of lined paper pasted to a slightly larger piece of the same paper, 28 words: 

"If you would know what books are best worth reading," was the saying among [Italy] [?]European scholars in the 1[7]6th & 1[8]7th centuries, "look in the Index Expurgatorius" [*see notes 
Jan, 11, 1889*]

"If you would know what books are
best worth reading," was the saying among European scholars
in the 16th & 17th centuries, "look in the Index expurgatorius"