HARNED/WHITMAN
Box 6 Folder 43

Photostats
Notebooks
[Before 1855]

(L.C. 87)87 [Notebook. Before 1855] Sixteen photostated pages. 15 X 9½ cm.
Original leather-backed notebook, written in pencil and ink on lined paper, contains 
autobiographical notes for the period 1826-1848, "subjects for articles," and extensive 
notes on English history and literature.
Partially published in Holloway, v. 2, p. 86-90.

[*3 319a*]notebook 4
(1850-55)?

Subject for articles
Rapid and temporary [?]
of American changes of [?]
for eminent statemen. - (inst.
of Crawford) ([?] instance. Pit
[A?] the objection that democratic
forms of gov. not ever get
enough in cases of emergency.
(Commonwealth of England - directs
of France.)

The photostat which appears above was made
for me from a document in the Walt Whitman
Papers int he 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.give us [investment?]
Give us turbulence, give us
the rage and [desprites?] of hell,
- [any?] this rather than [this?]
[lethargy?] of death that spreads
like a [the?] [vapors?] of decaying corpses
over [our?] land - only great because it 
involves great [principle?]
Why what was it - that little [this?]
[that?] made the rebellion of '76  -
a little question of tea and [wiskey?] [packages?]
The next worst thing to having
such enormous outrages put
into laws and acquiesced to
by the people without any alarm
is to have them practically carried
out. - Nations sink by [stages?]
first one, and then another

I come not here to flatter
[*notebook*]

[Why confine the matter
that past of [the] it involved
in the Scriptures. -

The influence of the 
gallows from]

There is invariably this fact about
superior natures; They understand
each other, and with similar sight behold the soul, the universe
immortality, and [thus follows in of]
all the aims and arts of men" -

1 X  The constitution covenant that [are]
the free states shall give up runaway
servants - that we all know. - But
by by the letter and spirit of its most
important provisions, we hold the right
to decide how to do it, who the runaway
servants are and to [bothe] perform the whole
[thing] obligation as we perform any
other obligation by due process of
law and without any violent [or
unlawful] intrusion from abroad -.


["O. liberty" said Madame
Roland, " what crimes have
been committed in thy
name!"
"O. Bible!" say I, "what
nonsense and folly have been
supported in thy name!"
Calvin burned Servetus
at Geneva and formed his
defence in the Bible. -
Henry 8th Edward 6th and the
bloody Mary offered up
scores of victims, at the
stake and gallows, for religious 
opinion, and
formed their defence in
the Bible. - The Pilgrims
sites also and St. Bartholomew's
horrid massacre 
[are] discover ample intion
in the Bible.-]

[*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
[*The photostat which appears above was made 
for me from a document 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.*]
[*3322*]I know that [times st] [it] America
is strong, and supple and full of
growth & I know we are on
good terms with the world. and
on extra good terms with enlightened to see
treaties we make with European steamships [p?]
gold comes from California, and
Verde is brisk, and the jobbers are
busy [?ing] up goods, and sends
them off to customers, and the
[?brook] [?] loaded, and all goes
[gay and] thriftily - These things
I do not expect to see [grown]
less [up now] but more [for]
and if any one suppose I am
at all alarmed about the prospects
of business on this deathbed he misunderstands 
me, for I am not - [not] no I
see the way clear for a hundred
years. - But with all [the] [?] deck -
ourselves [it] in the probes of safety
and gain, there at [?] sits Mordecai
the [?] and we know that
terrible sigh that [in] see that we [rout he] are to
have his life, or he is to hang
the best part of old on the
gallows high. -
What are all [you] these business
prospects, [you] these steamships, [you] these fat
and treasure and [you] our profitable trade?
[?] [?] [?] we [?] want [?] have and large soulded
men, [wished] men [if] not to

Are these two or three drops be any [prophecy of]
[If the] sample of the stories
[of any prophecy]
[of the of the requirements of that group] 
that is cooking for us? If I 
thought it was, me of 
I should advise all live Americans
to get on the killing clothes,
for there would be a little
butchering to be done

these would be no days of dalliance
or of ease [and] or talks - they
would be days [of] for all
line all Americans to get on
their killing clothes.

I [was years ago present
at] years ago I formed love of a
great crowd [?] [?] gathered where
a building had fallen in and 
buried a man alive - Down
somewhere in those ruins the
poor fellow [was] looked deprived of his
liberty [and either  in in danger]
perhaps dead or in danger of
Death. - How every body worked
how the shovels flew! - And all
for black Caesar - for [black] the
buried man wasn't any body else. - 



The photostat which appears above was made 
for me from a document 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.
[*23*]Going away - large collection
of blind persons - they wish that
they could see and have all the
blessings and knowledge [Hence?] -
would it make your sight any
less valuable to you?

As to the feeling of a man for
a woman and a woman for a
man and all the vigor and
beauty and muscular yearning
- it is well to know that 
neither the possession of these
feelings nor the ease talking
and writing about them and
having them powerfully [infused?]
in poems is my discredit ...
but rather a credit.  No woman
can bear clean and vigorous children
without them. Most of what 
is called delicacy is filthy, or
sick and unworthy of a woman
of live rosy body and a clear
affectionate spirit. At
any rate all these things are
necessary to the breeding of
robust wholesome offspring &

[*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 avoe photostat was made.
William L. Finkel
Dr. William L. Finkel
The City College of New York
Date: October 21, 1950*][In the cheerful performance
of the task of presenting some
reflections on Temperance...
its advantages to all who practice]

photostat
page on
right

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 avoe photostat was made.
William L. Finkel
Dr. William L. Finkel
The City College of New York
Date: October 21, 1950[*notebook 4*]

What can be a more admirable
aim for the most exalted human
ambition, than the wish and resolve
to be perfect? - Though the carrying
out of this resolve requires some
mental purification, the most of
it, I think is of a physical nature.
How many faults have I ! -
How many weaknesses ! - Ah,
if the flesh could but act where
my rational mind, in its moments
of clear inspiration aspires
to: how much better I should
be ! - Faint not, heart ! - Advance
stoutly and perseveringly !

I went to edit the Aurora
in April 1842.

In Jamaica first time in
the latter part of the summer
of 1839. In the winter succeeding, 
I taught school - [&]
between Jamaica and Flushing -
also in February and spring of 
'40 at Times Square. -
In summer of 40 I taught
at Woodbury.
Was at Jamaica and through Queens
so distressing in fall of 1840.-


By the article of Sidney Smith 
(1826) it appears that at that
time certain high orders of
criminals had not the privilege
of being heard by their
counsel in their trials-jury.

"I have myself," says [Mr.?]
Scarlett, the English Barrister
"often seen persons I thought
innocent convicted, and the
guilty - escape."
Sidney Smith's
essays.
"Folly, sanctioned by antiquity"
Sidney Smith

Winter of 1840, went to
white stone, and was there
till next spring. - 
Went to New York in
May 1841, and wrote for "Democratic
Review," worked at printing
business in New World" office
boarded at Mrs. Chipmans: -
- Went in April 1842 to
ed. Aurora
Wrote for "Sun" Va
J.W. died at Dix Hills Sept 8th 1845

[*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
[*The photostat which appears above was made 
for me from a document 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.*]
[*3326*]The "Pretender" son of James II of known 
reared in Scotland - In [?] no avail

1727 George II. (Sir R. Walpole [?])
[two successive] reigns
1745 Charles Edward, the Young Pretender
converts Scotland, advanced to Edinburgh,
was proclaimed King then
Battle of Culloden blasted all his
hopes - after which, for six months
he wandered in disguise from cave
to cave and at last escaped to France

Adm  Byng executed .-

1764. George III. (grandson of George II)

1768. Middlesex election. Wilkes [?] 
Wilkes was three times chosen, and
refused by the house of [commons]

1772. dismemberment of Poland between
German, Prussia and Russia.

1778. Earl of Chatham died. being seized
with illness in the house of lords while
speaking.

1789 French Revolution (Bastile taken)

1790. Disposition of Burke with Fox [and]
[Sheridan]  (Pitt, younger, minister)


1791. Another quarrel of Burke with Fox 
as he had formerly quarreled with 
Sheridan in the House.

French Revolution.  The King by his weakness
extortion and tyrany had incensed the people
the States' general had assembled - the commons
wished one body made of the three orders, and
assumed the title of national assembly - Paris
was (1789.) surrounded by a royal army of 50,000.
The popular minister M. Necker was removed,
and then the insurrection broke out, the
Bastile was destroyed, the king (17th July)
visited the hotel de Ville and surrendered
himself to the people. - In June, 1791, the king
attempted to escape from Paris, - He was caught
and brought back National Assembly completed
a new constitution, which was accepted 
by the king in Sept. the same year. -
The Nat. As. then dissolved, and a new one was
chosen to the exclusion of every member
of the former - (Duke of Brunswick's free,
Coronation 2d page.) Sept 21. 1792 new Convention
met and decreed the abolition of royalty, and 
the formation of a republic & Since the deportation
of the King, the prisons had been
filled, with suspected persons, on the  2nd of Sept
they were forced open, and a horrid massacre 
took place. - In Dec. 1798. the Convention tried
the King, convicted him, and on the 21st of Jan
1798 he was beheaded. -


[*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.
[*3327*]Shakespere born in 1564 died in 1615

Sir W. Raleigh born in 1552 was beheaded
in 1618, under James 1st

Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, born
in 1561, died in 1626.

Algernon Sidney born in 1617.
died in 1683 on the Scaffold.
[?] bold champion of liberty - was
beheaded under Charles II.

Dryden, born 1631 died 1701

Tillotson born 1630 died 1694
Archbishop of Canterbury, writer
of sermons.-

Sir M. Temple born 1629 died 1700

John Locke born 1632, died 1706

George [Fairbon?], Irish, born 1678, died
in 1707 writer of comedies -

Addison born 1672 died 1719. 2

Cosgrove, Irish, born 1672. died 1729.
comic write writer


Sir Richard Steele, Irish, born  died 1729
commenced "Tatler" in 1709 - followed by
"Spectator" and "Guardian". - where
George I came to the throne, he received
the honor of Knighthood. -

Swift, Irish, born 1667 died 1744
writer of "Tale of a [?]," adventure
Travels.
Swift, Rabelais, and Voltaire,
have been accounted the three greatest
writer of modern times.

Pope, born 1688 died 1744.
(Queen Anne)

Sir Robert Walpole, born 1676, died
in 1745. (George I)

Isaac Watts, born 1674 died in 1768
(a dissenter)

St. John, Vicput Bolingbroke, born
1672, died 1751. - At George 1st 1
withdrew to France, joined the "Pretender," -
Impeached of high treason,
over freedom, and afterward return
to England.  He married a neice
of Madame de Maritaimor

[C?eous,] a Portugese, contemporary
of Tuske, Italian . - CS [?] on
the [?] discovery of East Indies by King de George

[*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
[*The photostat which appears above was made 
for me from a document 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.*]
[*3328*]Britain
Little known - before time of the Romans
About the beginning of Christian [?] -
Had rude forces, infantry and horses -
Cesar first visited the island. - Claudius
was the emperor, under whom it was subjected.
[Carostoen?] sought to free his country, was taken
prisoner and carried to Rome. - [?]
is it possible that - people possessed of such [?]
come at how [?] was a humble entry
in Britain." Boudica, a British queen, [?]
by the Romans, fought, led her own armies, was
[?] committed suicide [?]. - Romans
left, after being masters for 400 years. -
After Romans abdicated, the British
were so annoyed by the Picts and Scoti, that they
invited the Saxons, to come upon from
Germany, and protect them. They came under
Hengist and Horsa, brothers. - Vortigern
was then king. - Treachery of the Saxons. -
Prince Arthur a native Briton took up arms
against them. - Ersen Swanson [?] the Saxon kingdoms.
- About 400 years after the arrival
of Saxons, they having formed different kingdoms,
and quarreled - all were united under
Egbert of Wessex who was crowned king of England. 
At this time St. Gregory, (Pope) (St George?) sent
missionaries to convert them & (saw some children
for sale in the slave market at Rome) 
Danes now invaded England, and
committed great ravages. "Alfred the Great"
fought against them and Edward, Son of Alfred

Etheliten, son of [?erd] [Edm?], [Edred?] 
[E?]. - Edgar. - Edward II. - Etheled N. -
Edmund - [?] (Dane, under [?] after
invaded Eng.)  Canite and Edmund, keeping the
kingdon - constant war, the nobility obliged
them to duck the empire. - Soon after Edmund
was murdered, and Connett thereby came into 
possession of the crown. - Harold, son of
[Ca?t]. - Hardicourt another won - Dane
deposed, and Edward the Confessor [? ?] -
Harold, son of a nobleman - His [?]
were opposed by William, Duke of Normandy. -
the aroma had begun Capt William by Edward
the Confessor - Pope in favor of William.
William entered England, fought Harold,
defeated him, and gained the crown.
End of Saxon dynasty, after 600 years

1066 William the Conqueror
1087 William Rufus, son "
1100 Henry I. ([B?] son of Wm Conqueror 
1135 Stephen (nephew of Henry)
1154 Henry II. (son of Matilda [?] of [?]
[general?] with Thomas a Becket
Ireland conquered) [?] [?]
1089 Richard I ([?] the Lion
son of Henry II) ([B?])
1199 John (Magna Carta, at [Runnimede?])

[*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
[*The photostat which appears above was made 
for me from a document 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.*]
[*3329*]