Content:
This manuscript consists of three smaller scraps of paper that have been pasted together to form a larger sheet. The first part of this manuscript was slightly revised and used nearly verbatim in "Mature Summer Days and Nights." The second and third scraps were revised and contributed to "Distant Sounds." Both of these prose pieces first appeared in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883), and were included in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Content:
The fourth and fifth leaves of the printer's copy for "How I Get Around at 60, and Take Notes. (No.
2.)", which was published in the
Critic
on April 9, 1881. Though he did not
include this essay as a whole in
Specimen Days
& Collect
(1882–83), Whitman reprinted parts of it under different
titles. The first of the sections shown here appeared as "Distant Sounds."
