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Key
| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| Whitman's hand | blue double overline and underline |
| Highlighting | yellow background with top and bottom border |
| Paste-on | gray box with black borders |
| Laid in | white box with black borders |
| Erasure | white text with dark gray background |
| Overwritten | brown with strikethrough |
[begin surface 1]
Make a piece (short—or longer)
on the queer judgments both of communi-
ties and ages, and of notable individuals
as of Voltaire ab't Shakspere
Byron, & Wordsworth
ab't the poets
& as in Dictionary page 9359
when women's characters were first
rattempted to be represented on
the English stage by real
women, actresses, they were angrily
hissed off; it was considered
indecent, beyond allowance.
The first persons that carried
umbrellas in Europe were mobbed
[begin surface 2]
Make a piece (short—or longer)
on the queer judgments both of communi-
ties and ages, and of notable individuals
as of Voltaire ab't Shakspere
Byron, & Wordsworth
ab't the poets
& as in Dictionary page 93