(qu?) To make a Personal item or ¶ for "Minor Topics."
qu? To commence for instance "With the bright, crispy autumn weather,
WALT WHITMAN again makes his appearance on the sidewalks of Broadway," &c &c (three or four lines on personnel as lounging along) item the obstinacy, pertinacity or continuity of Leaves of Grass & of the personality of W. W. in current Literature notwithstanding all attacks & objections The poems have been republished in England, & are being translated by Freiligrath for publication in Germany. allude to the proposed prose work—"Democratic Vistas."Cant you put in the idea of an obstinate, tenacious, determined living man, appearing with a will, in our easy-going imitative literature.