Content:
A nearly complete draft of "Sea-Shore Fancies," a short prose piece that first appeared in the 29 January 1881 issue of
The Critic
, as part of "How I Get Around at 60, and Take Notes. (No. 1)," under the section heading "A Fine Winter Day on the Beach." Whitman later divided this section into two separate items. The draft represented here was eventually published in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883), under the title "Sea-Shore Fancies," and later collected in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
