WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Autograph manuscript, headed "-Walt Whitman Memoranda-," apparently his response to the question "Give me an unflinching description of the Southern gasconado & the northern abolitionist." N.p., n.d., 1 page, 4 o (254 x 200 mm.) written in red and brown inks on a single sheet of lined notebook paper (frayed at edges, fold tears). An interesting Whitman fragment commenting on the American South and almost certainly written after the Civil War, in the same period which saw publication of his Memoranda During the War (1875-76). For the initial text, Whitman used red ink, which has been corrected and revised extensively in brown ink. The fragment reads: "Yet as some of the best, if not the very best, men of the New World have been produced by the South and out of its peculiarities and institutions, I believe there is now the same eligibility,--& every successive year I look (though I confess yet in vain,) to see spring up men of the south, native, wise, born autocthones children of their own land and air, wise, bravem candid, putting away the oldm and adjusting themselves to the new..." A note scrawled at the side reads "Prophecy: the future of the South," and at the bottom of the sheet Whitman has begun another commentary which lists the souther states, including "the broad and sunny empire of Texas."
WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Autograph manuscript, headed "-Walt Whitman Memoranda-," apparently his response to the question "Give me an unflinching description of the Southern gasconado & the northern abolitionist." N.p., n.d., 1 page, 4 o (254 x 200 mm.) written in red and brown inks on a single sheet of lined notebook paper (frayed at edges, fold tears). An interesting Whitman fragment commenting on the American South and almost certainly written after the Civil War, in the same period which saw publication of his Memoranda During the War (1875-76). For the initial text, Whitman used red ink, which has been corrected and revised extensively in brown ink. The fragment reads: "Yet as some of the best, if not the very best, men of the New World have been produced by the South and out of its peculiarities and institutions, I believe there is now the same eligibility,--& every successive year I look (though I confess yet in vain,) to see spring up men of the south, native, wise, born autocthones children of their own land and air, wise, bravem candid, putting away the oldm and adjusting themselves to the new..." A note scrawled at the side reads "Prophecy: the future of the South," and at the bottom of the sheet Whitman has begun another commentary which lists the souther states, including "the broad and sunny empire of Texas."
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