HARNED / WHITMAN 
Box  6  Folder  41 
Photostats
Notebooks 
[Before 1855] 
(L.C. 84) 

84  [Notebook.  Before 1855]  Eight photostated pages.  16 x 9 1/2 cm. 
Original notebook in pencil and ink on lined paper. 
Contains notes toward a poem entitled "Bridalnight" and two passages of "American
Opera," the latter published in Furness, p. 201, n. 37. 

For additional photostats  see  "Walt Whitman . Various Accessions  AC 11, 307" 

If there be some brute very
sagacious and intelligent
And as being of our human race
no more sagacious and intelligent
than that animal - is one
preferred to the other?
Equality of all rights and persons is imperious
degraded by self preservation
The cause of the ruin of
all states that have been
ruined has been that the
whole body of the inhabitants
without exception were
not equally interested in
the preservation of those
states or cities - or that
this portion was degraded


form of a poem on the
composition on which
the opinions are expressed
by different wise men
or youths, as 1st wise
man, 1st youth
1st woman - or as
expressed by Socrates, Christ

The expression of
a perfect made man appears
not only in his face - but
in his limbs - the motion
of his hands and arms and all his
joints - his walk the
carriage of the neck
and the flex of his
waist and hips.
Dress does not hide him. The


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[*11,307 f 26*]

The photostat which appears above was made
for me from a document in the Walt Whitman
Papers in the Manuscript Division of the
Library of Congress on a date of which I
have no record, but which was prior to 1942.
Subsequent examination by me of the contents
of boxes 1-8, 15 of the Walt Whitman Papers
in the Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, on February 13-15, 21, 1946, and
of the entire collection on October 18-21,
1950, failed to disclose the document
from which the above photostat was made.

William L. Finkel
Dr. William L. Finkel
The City College of New York

Date: October 23, 1950.

[*3313*][?oll belonging to late fifties. Extracts in Furness -
turners, p. 201, note 37 "

quality - he has and the [clean]
strong sweet supple nature he has
[??] strike through [has
the] cotton and woolen. -
To see him walk [is a] conveys the impression
[spectacle or a]
of hearing a beautiful poem. -
To see his back and
the back of his neck and
shoulderside is a spectacle,
Great is the body! -
There is something in the
[close presence] touch of any [c?????] [and] clean
[human being] person what it is I do
not know. . . .but it fills
me with wonderful and
exquisite sensations. It is
enough to be with him or 
her.

describe the perfect
male body - [?ancratist]
- perfect in all gynasia.
Poem of the Wrestlers
My respiration and inspiration
....the beating of my heart....
the passing of blood and air
through my lungs
[???] on Literature
Though it have all the
learning and art of the school
if it have not life it is nothing.
If when you read or hear it
if it or not call the blood
leaping and flowing - if
We do not fall in love
with statues - we know
[???] healthy love for them

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11,307 f
The photostat which appears above was made
for me from a document in the Walt Whitman
Papers in the Manuscript Division of the the
Library of Congress on a date of which I
have no record, but which was prior to 1942.
Subsequent examination by me of the contents
of boxes 1-8, 15 of the Walt Whitman Papers
in the Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, on February 13-15, 21, 1946, and
of the entire collection on October 18-21,
1950, failed to disclose the document
from which the above photostat was made.
William L. Finkel
Dr. William L. Finkel
The City College of New York
Date: October 23, 1950.
3314ses     p. 201  ,  Note 37     " 7 A  60 " Finkel 7 "notebook - [late 50]
before 18

This great round globe with
its rolling circles and
time and perpetual
motions - and all the
moving arrivals - men
and women - the sea
and soil - the plants
- the curious emanated
Have you in you the enthusiasm
for the battles of [???] Bunker Hill or Long Island
and Washington's retreat? - Have
you the heroic feeling for - -
Look forth then for there is
still occasion for courage and devotion
- Nature is not so poor but
there is always occasion for
courage and determinatied power and
[???]

Always [A truly] any great and original
persons, teacher, inventor, [poet or]
writer or poet, must himself make
the taste and by which only he will
be appreciated, or even received.
for oration
must we be unchecked, un     , unmastered. - What
real Americans can be made
out of slaves? What real
Americans can be made
out of the masters of slaves?
Then you can say as to Nature these
words - Send us O Nature as much as you like - Send us the children
of the poor, the ignorant and the
[Depraped] - We are ready for them
- we can receive them - For this
also we have preparation to
welcome - We have not any
welcome for the black and [slaves?]

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11,307 F. 23
3315

The photostat which appears above was made
for me from a document in the Walt Whitman
Papers in the Manuscript Division of the
Library of Congress on a date of which I
have no record, but which was prior to 1942.
Subsequent examination by me of the contents
of boxes 1-8, 15 of the Walt Whitman Papers
in the Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, on February 13-15, 21, 1946, and
of the entire collection on October 18-21,
1950, failed to disclose the document
from which the above photostat was made.
William L. Finkel
Dr. William L. Finkel
The City College of New York
Date: October 23, 1950.Friwtel wers

 Furnace p 201 , With 37 " 7 A 60"notebook
Poem
Bridalnight
one
a quivery jelly of love
linked transparent
Limitless jets of love, hot
and enormous
Arms of love strong as
attraction reach us wide and large
as the air
Drunken and crazy
with love swing in
it is in the plummetless
sea

[Body] Loveflesh
swelling and delicous aching
whiteblow of love
in dream
the architect that comes
among the stonecutters
and the heaps of
cut stone
poem describes how the
workmen, possessed with
an indescribable faith
go on all after age in
this work - and at last
came architects and
used each in its place
the stones they 
had cut.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The photostat which appears above was made
for me from a document in the Walt Whitman
Papers in the Manuscript Division of the
Library of Congress on a date of which I
have no record, but which was prior to 1942.
Subsequent examination by me of the contents
of boxes 1-8, 15 of the Walt Whitman Papers
in the Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, on February 13-15, 21, 1946, and
of the entire collection on October 18-21,
1950, failed to disclose the document
from which the above photostat was made.
William L. Finkel
Dr. William L. Finkel
The City College of New York
Date: October 23, 1950.
11,307 fe4[??kel] no 7

(1 "Eighteen [????]- Report [??] 7
Extracts in Turner, p. 201, note 37