WALT WHITMAN   PHOTO COPIES  Diary notes, u d.
Box 2 Folder 5page 8
The strange events,
( by in) - as the
people rise in the
May the news -

between 4 and 5
in the afternoon.
I cross'd the
river from Brooklyn 
& took a walk.1Up Broadway'
[the eloquence of
the scene was]
the scene was 
solemn & most
eloquent - I had
so often seen 
Broadway on great 
gala days, tumultuous
overwhelming 
shows of pride
& oceanic profusion2of ornamentation
& deck'd with
rich colors jubilant
show crowds &
the music of
a hundred bands 
with marches & 
opera airs — or 
at night with
processions bear
countless torches
& transparencies
& gas lanterns3[co?g] the houses.
The stores were
shut, & no business
transacted hardly
no pleasure
vehicles, & hardly 
a cart - only the
[heavy] [people] rumbling
base of the incessant
heavy Broadway stages
incessantly rolling4words to describe
the weather
sulky, leaden, &
dripping continuously
moist tears - 
One large ill fashioned
picture with shuttered [shut] up store
all close except
a broad square
Plate glass, in
which hung a 
small generic picture
frame, vacant a picture5in this death
the tragedy of
the last five
years has risen
to its climaxe
 the blood of
Abraham Lincoln
was permitted by
the   ?6spiral windings
of black & white
Around the 
columns — the
night crowd
at 6 o'clock
wend'g their way
home -
-The crowds
around the bulletin
boards.7When a great
event happens.
the news
or some signal 
solemn thing
spreads [oer the] out away
[land] the people, it is curious
to go forth and
wander awhile 
in the public 
ways.8