Skip to main content
-
Whitman Archive Title: Distant Sounds
-
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00226
-
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
-
Box: 1
-
Folder: 5
-
Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
-
Repository Title: How I Get Around and Take Notes at Sixty
-
Date: about 1881
-
Genre: prose
-
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
-
View Images:
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
-
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."
View All Works
