Content:
A complete draft, with corrections and notes to the printer, of "How I Still Get Around and Take Notes. (No. 5)," a piece of journalism that appeared in
The Critic
(Vol. I, no. 24) on December 3, 1881. Portions of the piece would later be reprinted as three separate sections of
Specimen Days
(1882–1883): "A Visit, at the Last, to R. W. Emerson," "Other Concord Notations," and "Boston Common—More of Emerson." The article was also reprinted, with small portions excised, in Alexander Ireland's 1882 volume
In Memoriam. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Recollections of His Visits to England in 1833, 1847–8, 1872–3, and Extracts from Unpublished Letters
(London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.), 113–115.
