HARNED/WHITMAN
Box [*1*] Folder [*15*]
[*Manuscripts*]
POETRY FILE
[*"L of G's Purport" [1891]*]
[*(h.C. 37)*]
[*Includes verso account to Mrs. White.*]L of G's purport
Not to exclude or take away, or
pick out evils from their formidable
masses, (even to expose them,)
But add, complete, extend, the immortal
good.

73Burkhardt
5 Noble Street
Greenville
New JerseyMy Task
This Journey
Begun amid in [my] ripen'd youth, and
   steadily kept on throughout,
Wandering, peering, dallying with all -
   war, peace, day, night, absorbing -
   never even for a brief hour abandoning my [that?] task,
I end [it here] it here in poverty, sickness and old age.

[Monday 
Mr. Whitman 
Dear Sir 
If not 
inconsistent with your 
views or feelings, I would 
be very thankful for 
your autograph on the 
enclosed card. 
Yours resp. 
Emma S[??]gee]

[*75*][This journey
Begun in amid my ripen'd youth, and steadily [stretching]
kept on [and on] thro' life
I end it [them] here in old age.

[Delay'd at times, wandering dallying]
Delaying, dallying, wandering, - never even for a brief day [single hour] [one day]
abandoned,]

This journey
Begun amid my ripen'd youth, and steadily
kept on throughout life
Wandering, peering, dallying, [seeking] - war [and] peace, day, night absorbing -
never even for a brief [day] hour
abandoning,
I end it all here in old age.
[*74*]Payments to Mrs. White
$ 292
Commenced March 1st 1871. Paid first 
Month $12 - afterwards $9 a month 
Paid up to June [15] 10 '73 - $236 
when I left - 
(the bargain was that when away, absent, 
I was to pay only half price)
(June 10, '73. gave up one room
kept the other at $2.50 a month)

Have paid since June 10 '73
--Cash - $25
   "           10
   "             5
   "             2
Goods    20
              $62
Paid altogether -- $298
June 10, '73 owed 20 so that I have
rent 1 year after    30  really overpaid
                               $50
Dr & Mrs. W. $12.