HARNED / WHITMAN 
NOTEBOOKS

[*c1862?*]
[*L.C. 97*]

BOX 2  FOLDER 24
For refrain piece

Here goes your fine fat oysters
Here goes your oysters
Here they go-o-o
Here they go.[*1056 B*]
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Collected in
of immigrants in 
our large cities, and to 
the late masses of 
slaves;

? The [floorejoy] remarks 
The remarks I am about 
to make apply more to Europe 
(where Democracy still waits for [?] that 
than America. Here the 
almost The prevailing enclused thewagers Added lower with characteristics 
of the native born people of 
every one of These States make [them] 
[entirely sinful] [the] the line of 
statement altogether inappropriate 
[to apply such remarks] 
to them.  They have 
long past [p] beyond it.  
But as Democracy has to do 
with the [whole body] whole the 
point contained in the part of the 
question must be met.  
[?] The above I might 
come in after the 
statement

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97   [Notebook.  1862?] [7] p. on 11 l. (5 blank).  20½ x 13½ cm.  Holograph, 
written and revised in pencil and ink, partly on lined paper, and 
partly on paper watermarked "Joynson 1862."
   Homemade notebook, sewed with red ribbon.[* [no 7, group 6, microfilm] *]Dear friend
   (last) I enclose $5 for the past (over) a week
board. (God bless you [too] for your many [many] sisterly kindnesses
to me, [beyond ??? power of] no money [to] you ever repay.  My love to
Ed and Debby and the whole family.)
   As I am gon' up & may not be down again soon.
I wish Debby to [take keep my] take charge of my big pillow, as it
was made by & given me by my mother.  & she slept on it & I shall 
[send] want it again.  I may [send for] want the stove if [I want]
[it] this winter to use, but don't know.  The bedstead I give to Debbie
if she will accept [have] it--it ain't worth much any how

[That] The civilized 
world is full of [evils,] 
maladies 

* That there are dreadful 
evils, minute & aggregate -- 
that there is many a vexing 
problem.  

[*1055*] Time [can be the only] alone 
can finally answer all these things.  
But [and] as a [form] substitute of an 
answer, [en passant] as in passing, 
here are thrown out a few suggestions 
[& outlines,] indirections of that other 
plan, in the new spirit, 
with the new    *
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* [of] is after his own [be [?] ], 
manner, frank, bold, & incisive -- & is as it should be 
toward end 

-- The perceptive reader  
will see that what is said 
in this article [here] is not by any meaning intended [at all] 
as a formal rejoinder & answer to 
Mr. Carlyle. [He as architect 
has presented] 
What he has [written] offered [is] [as it] should be 
[[?]] vast he aged and ever-changing 
[The great] For the Edifice of 
politico-humanity he, as 
architect, has presented his 
plan of repairs, -- his idea of 
strengthening, & [revif] revivifying.  
[The only answer] It seems 
to embody & stand for, what 
many shrewd persons & 
just persons, here in America & there in Europe, think, believe 
or dread, in some form [orn] 
or other.  [Then] [The answers] Largely considered, 

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Box 2   Folder 25 

NOTEBOOKS 

[1863]  

Diary 

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