memorandize

Now he is sitting on the limb of an old tree, high up, bending over the water—seems to be looking at me while I memorandize.

A Couple of Old Friends—A Coleridge Bit. Specimen Days 1892

Now he is sitting on the limb of an old tree, high up, bending over the water -- seems to be looking at me while I memorandize.

Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Now he is sitting on the limb of an old tree, high up, bending over the water -- seems to be looking at me while I memorandize.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855