HARNED/WHITMAN Photocopies Notebooks c. Before 1855, (84) Box 7 Folder 15Library of Congress Six Early Whitman Note Books No. V 64 pages, about 4 1/2 x 7 some blank Unbound and tied with green ribbon. Labeled "Note Book. Walt Whitman." No date.Note Book Walt Whitman6 Copy 2098T 22My57[*3*] [illigable][*4*] memorials—if they were timid and receptive he [had] made his chisels cut the granite with the tokens [of] feminine. He is the first after Osiris. Troy taken 1184 B.C. p. 75 Dr. Abbott tells me that Lepsius told him of finding monuments in Ethiopia with inscriptions and astronomical signs upon them.[*5*] be sure [of the district] where the trouble is —they wait thus perfectly still and in splendid postures— ——— The [children's] dancing school at Dodworth's The difference is only the [b?] difference of an inch.— But it is the difference between cutting [off] the rope [that holds us] we cling to 100 feet above the land. —whether we cut it an inch above or an inch below where our hands hold on for life [? one are [th] - [?] be the [?] [?] [?][*6*] Mr. Winel A prince in Polish Austria near Hungary on his estate on the highway, puts up a perpetual inn where all wayfarers are entertained free of charge; this he keeps always open, and gives meat and bread and lodgings—and sometimes comes to amuse himself with the guests. I have been asked, Which is the greater, the man or the woman?—Yes, I tell you, with the same answer that I tell whether Time is greater than space— and without equal a [n?] whom we knew not before Then the great authors take fire for another And the great soldier for a captain The sailors know that he has followed the sea, The English believe this comes of Saxon stockThe life of man on earth is the chef d'ouvre of all things.— What then! is it a suck?— Has God tried conceived a joke, and tried it on, and is it a small one? Of the poet He walks with perfect ease among a congress of kings. And one king saith says to another, Here is our equal, ^a prince whom we knew not before Then the great authors take fire for one another And the great soldiers for a captain The sailors know that he has followed the sea, The English believe that comes of Saxon stock[*8*] And the Italians freed the O laugh when my eyes settle the land The blues upon the drif,t like white race horse of time, oficios before [sech] such a thing as ownership here any how - [The Chief Religion has being the Journal the crut scare fit of this] one of the laws was that [it] from the moment [any] a man takes the smallest page exclusive, to himself and trys to keep it from the rest on that [such] moment it begins to wither under his hand and [you] its immortal hieroglyphics presents from away and become blank [a] and dead. - stonecutter's tools tooth = chisel - jib for the that[*9*] Of writers there are plenty who pay all demands upon them, if folks are willing to take notes, or paper acceptances of any sort; but only one out [?Buturies?] who gives ready solid cash. --- It is a terrible sign of the human soul that it will not own any limit, even the widest --- The moment we know the diameter of the earth to be eight thousand miles it became no great thing to us. --- With all the appalling grandeur of astronomy, if we could [find?] the line beyond which there was no more material universe, our souls, I think, would pine away and begin its death sickness.[*10*] Rameas the Great over 30 centuries ago Solomon born 1032 BC " ascended throne, 1015 Pharaoh, from Phre or phra the sun Wilkinson Moses born 1571 B.C. Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt 1491 B.C. 430 years after the arrival of Abraham in Egypt. - Homer about 907 B.C. Rome founded 753 B.C. [*[finger pointing] over leaf*] [The note Nature is] The mirror that nature [our] holds and [? ?] is very deep and floating and etherical and [etherial mirror] faithful. [deep deep and floating] in it a alway sends and man sees himself himself from [it] he reflect [this] the fasion of his gods and all his religious and politics, and books and art and social and public and institution - ignorance or knowledge - kindness or cruelty - grossness or refinement - definitions or chaos - each [of] is summarily sent back to him or her who curiously pases. gases[*11*] [fulldosed?] There is a woman of calm and voluptuous beauty,... [on] the [unspeakal] unspeakable charm of the face of the mother of many children is the charm of her face ... she is clean and sweet and simple with immortal health ... she holds always before her [?] what has the quality of a mirror, and dwells seriously behind it. - When out of [feast] eat our [bread] corn and real potatoes [fo] for my dinner, though my own voluntary choice it is very well and I much content; but if some arrogant head of the table prevent me by force from touching any this but corn and potatoes then is my anger roused. - Every one that [is] speaks his word for slavery, is himself the worst slave - the spirit of a female is not light enough in him to show - that all the fatness of the earth were little to a bondaged neck.--[*12*] In the respect of happiness or extasy, the beautiful gas [is] pervades the air continually, and we only need to be rightly turned and conditioned, in the open that it may catch to us (like gunpowder catches to fire) and [pass] how into us like one viva with another. The schooner is [sailing] hoisting her sail she will soon be down the coast. river pirate. old junk ship I do not seek those that love me, I would rather seek [out] after some, that hate me. [The village in the highland, seen from afar - at sunset - the sun setting on the red while [her] or brown gables, red, white or brown the ferry boat even playing [form] [and] even over the dive.] [The schooner sleeping [dropping] down the tide the [little] Small returns toward by the rope][*13*] In the open market plase the barrels of apples, the flour and meat and for [product], ? - hunks and bone. The deckhand of the steamboat in his red shirt. The navy boat and barge [flee] the two boat [with] bring her very . of barges from the river. the picture of the New York captain passage in poem middle? ? aged single woman? seeing from day to day for many years in man whom she deeply loves - never flagging - and eventually dies - The test of the goodness or truth of any thing is the soul itself - whatever does good to the soul, soothes, refresh cheers, inspirits, consoles, & be that is so, easy enough - But doctrines sermons logic ??[*14*] Do you know what I well be Do you " " it is to be loved as you pass in the street? Do you known what is is to Do you know what it is to have men and women crave the touch of your hand and the contact of you? ------------------------------ [Th] not - - must be the poets I would have The poets I would have met be a power in the state, and an engrossing power in the state.[*15*] If you have sons [habit] custom then to be drivers of horses I knew one brother drivers of horses Why should I so much The capitol, the president, the laws, I dem [There was never any more nation then there is now Nor any more youth or life And will never be any more perfection Nor any more heaven or hell] The few who write the books and preach the sermons and ? keep the schools - [I do not think] [there] are they so much more than those who do not teach or preach, or write [All] [t]This we call literature and science is not so very much - there is enough of unaccountable importance and beauty in every step we trend and every thought of you Literature to these gentlemen is a parlor in which no person is to be welcomed unless he come attired in dress coat and observing the approved decorum with the fashionable[*16*] Poem illustrating (good moments!) soul in high glee all out (exquisite slate of feeling of happiness - some moment of the opera - in the woods Criticism He leaps over or dives under for the time, all the reforms and propositions that worry those days and goes to the making of power by men and women. - [These] With these he says, all reforms, all good, will come - Without these all reformable good, all outside effect, are useless and helpless - Poem "The Bridegroom" ? for recitation (tremulous with joy Marios voice grieving) (bring in a Death We want no reforms no institutions no parties - We want a living principle as nature has, under which nothing can go wrong This must be vital through the United States but for the largest cases and actions and the [?][*17*] [If the] Do you think I have written all this for my own good? Well perhaps I have . . . but [it was] not in the you [you] [think] imagine, No one can realize anything lies he has it in him . . . or has been it It most certainly tally with what is in him . . . otherwise it is all blank to him. The annals the past, light, spare - if I have then rest in me, I have the not of all The future is in me as a seed or nascent thought. If the general has [not the] a good [best] are in himself he has [no] a good army . . . . otherwise he has a [poor] no was the menting army. If you [pose] are rich in yourself you are rich . . . . otherwise you are wrenhedly post If you are located in yourself you are well located . . . . [if not what] you can never be [are y] dislodged or are you moved there If you [can be] are happy of yourself you [can] [be] are happy . . . . [for] but I tell you cannot be happy [through] by others any more than you can beget a child [through] by others . . . . or conceive a child [through] by others.[*18*] I write not [the] hymns I see [these] the building of churches to God. . . If I build a church it shall be [the] a church [of] to men and women If I write hymns they shall be all to men and women, If I become a devotee it shall be to men and women. [?] shorty Brownie Dead bodies Hamlet's Ghost Letloose Graball Punch 4th of July Christmas Johnny Doughnuts Poggy — Shortey Pochuck Bonehardener Codmouth Black Jack Broadway Jack Dressmaker Harlem Charley Blower Bill[*19*] Dry Dock John Raggedy Jack Smith's Monkey Emigrant Wild man of Borneo Steamboat Elephant Buffalo Santa Anna Blind Sam Rosy Baltimore Charley Long Boston Short Boston Mannieyunk Pretty Me Jersey Mountaineer It is not a labor of clothing or pretty on or describing - it is a labor of clearing every and [not] reducing - for everything is beautiful in itself and perfect - and the office of the poet is to receive what started, in the way of your perceiving the beauty and perfection My final aim To concentrate around me the leaders of all reforming - transcendenlalist spiritualist, free soilers[*20*] [flawless truth and put it in the windows of your brains A Man at Auction How much for the man He is of ? value For him the earth by preparing billions of years without one animal or plant For him the things of the air, the earth and the sea He is not only himself He is the father of other men who shall be fathers in their town] [A woman at auction How much for the woman? For he all She [can] is not only herself she is the bearer of of other women ; who shall be mothers, She is the bearer of men who shall be [fathers]][*21*] For him all sentiments [For him] In his appointed by he becomes a God In his appointed time he reaches his exstacy He is the one loved He is the master Verese - each picture illustrating a European Asiater African American opera when a son is say the accompanied to be by only one instrument in two instruments the rest silent the vocal performer to make far more of his song, a solo part, by his attitudes, expressions movements, &c. than is [usual] at all [in the] made by the Italian opera singers - The American opera to be far more simple, and give far more scope to the persons enacting the characters[*22*] and with fiercely scream's energy This great earth that roll in the air, and the sun and moon, and men and women - do you think nothing more is to be made of than storekeeping and books and produce and dry goods and something to pay taxes on? Who are the Three old men going slowly with their arms about each others necks Who are[*23*] This great round globe with its rolling circles - and time - and perpetual motions - and all the moving animals - men and women-- the sea and soil - the placts --- the curious emunates Have you in your the enthusiasm for the battle of [Whit?] Bunker Hill [Re] brig and Island and Washington retreat? - Have you the heroic feeling for - - Look forth them [for] Vicent still occasion for courage and clever - Nature is not so poor but then is always occasions for courage an external power and [A truly] Always, may great and original persons, teacher, inventor, [poet or] artist or poet, must himself make the task and by which only he will be appreciated, or even received. For nation [shall] must we be unchecked, , 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 Nation the words - send in O Nature as much as you like-- Land as the children of the poor, the quiet and the depraped -- We are ready for them --we can receive this--- For them also we have preparation as we have-- We have not, or actions for the North to [?][*24*] Poem Bridalnight. one be quivey jelly of love Cupid transparent [Linitles?] get of love, that and enormous Arms of love [leo] stray as attraction reach as wide and large as the air Drunkin and crazy with love, swing in it’s in the plumitlers sea [Body] Loveflesh swelling and deliciciouss [throbbing] aching whistleblow of love in dream The architect that comes amid the stonecutters and the heaps of cut stone poem because how the workmen, possessed with an undesirable faith go on are often age in their work - and at last come architects and used each in its place the stones tay head cut.[*25*] Poem of a road [[The snowstorm or rainstorm] bunkroom strong team the counterfeit detector the directory of the census returns thy Presidents men of the Covenant the blows of the fighting men - the uppercut and one two three] [The bugle calls in the ballroom - the [owners] gentlemen [head out] go for their partners - the playing begins the dancers bow to each other.] The swimming bath the string gah [The dishes on the daily table - [the coffee] the roast meat - the oysters - the coffee and cornbread and rye and wheatbread.] [*[messsage and the [mayor] message of the mayor and the village of the Chief of Police] The questions are such as these Has his life shown the true American character? And does it show the true American character Has he been cosy and friendly with his workmen? - Has he been the stern master of slaves? Has he been for making ignominious distructions? - Has he respected the literary classes and looked on the ignorant classes with contempt[*26*] If there be [usual] some brute [that is] very sagacious and intelligent And on being of our human race no more sagacious and intelligent than that animal - is one preferred to the other? Equality of all [cyst?] and persons is unknown 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 the portion was degraded form of a poem or the composition in which the opinions are expressed: by different wise men or youths, as 1st wise man, 1st youth at woman. - or as expressed by Socrates. Christ . [The expression of a [well] perfect made may appears not on in his face - but in his limbs - The motion of his hands and arms and all his joints - his walk - the carriage of his neck and the flex of his waist and hips Dress does not hide him The][*27*] [quality he has. and the [clear] strong sweet supple [ven] nature he has [afsp] strike through [his] [the] cotton and woolen. - To see him walk [is a] comers the impression [spectacle or a] of [to] hearing a beautiful poem. - To see his back and shoulderside the back of his neck and is a spectacle, Great is the body! - There is something in the close touch presence of [any human] comely [and] clean [being] person - what it is I do not know... but it fills me with wonderful and exquisite sensations - It is enough o be with him or her. --] describe the perfect male body - pancratist - perfect in all gynasue Poem of the Wrestlers [My respiration and inspiration .... the beauty of my heart.... the passing of blood and air through my lungs .] Addresses on Liberating Though it have all this learn and ask of the [?] if it has not life it is nothing [If] When you read or hear if it or not call the [t?] leap, and flow - of We do not fall in love with statues - we have health love for them[*28*] American opera - put three banjos, (or none!) in the orchestra - and let them accompany (at times exclusively) the songs of the baritone a tenor - Let a considerable part of the performance be instrumental - the orchestra only - Let a few words go a great way - the plot not complex but simple - Always one leading idea - as Friendship Courage, Gratitude, Love, - always a district meaning The story and libretto as now are generally of no account. - In the American opera the story and libretto must be the body of the performance. The fingers of the pianist playing lightly and rapidly on the keys. Illustration a man placing his ear To place the ear flat on the breast of the motionless body to see if it has any life in its heart. Dorin The land where - so am The land where[*29*] The poor despised - Irish girls and boy immigrants just over A. fierce protective sweep around shield then Dam the poet of the shallow and flat and Any one [can] we [he] know [th???] the great heroes and poets are drain But [The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day. Poem What embarked [Modify I have no mockings and laughter I have out to be silent and] Men and woman at auction Here is I see -- Adam and Eve again I see the old myths - then poem picture of was (the hospital at Sebastopol) then the opposite - the inferences and results - what war does to develope and strengthen and make more energetic and agile humanity - and what it contributes to poetry, oratory, &c. -[*30*] [all that] he does not lose by comparison with the orange tree or magnolia or with [the] fields that nourish the sugarplant or the cotton plant . . . . [all that] what strengthens or clothes adorns or luscious can be had through subtle counterpathy from then – from the [the co] magnolias and orange[s] and sugarplant and cotton plant and all fruits and flowers and all the sorts and productions of the earth.— Poem — addressed to a young man who has come of age and is in possession of enormous wealth. — address on literature you must become a force in the state – and a real and great force – just as real and great as the president and congress – greater than they[*31*] I am an old artitlesant I tell of some On South Fifth st (Monroe Place) 2 doors above the river from Sixth street - going toward Greenpoint - On Wilson st Green, corner Fifth & Grand[*32*] blatherers. The [wealthiest] affluent men is he who [answers all the] confronts [wealthy] [whether] the grandist show he sees [or] by [its] an equivalent [or] or man than equality this [differs] [bottomless] from grander [riches] wealth of himself. Insoriciance sen soo se awnz or the mettlesome action of the blood horse and the unimpeachableness of the sextant of trees hauhty & jealous and abstract[*33*] Well the - [?] [?] [?] at Houser [S?] with was at [?] [?] surrounded [?] its distant [?] [?] [?] [C?] 1740 B. C. Joseph Abraham 190 O.B. [?] [?] [?] [?]