The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman Part 23

[8] First printed in Horace Traubel's "With Walt Whitman in Camden," III, 513.

[9] Evidently meaning the letter of September 3d.

[10] Missing.

[11] Percy Carlyle Gilchrist who became an inventive metallurgist.

[12] Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, who became an artist.

[13] Printed from copy retained by Whitman.

[14] To deliver his Dartmouth College ode.

[15] William Douglas O'Connor, an ardent Was.h.i.+ngton friend of Whitman.

[16] John Burroughs, the naturalist, then a young author and disciple of Whitman.

[17] Anne Gilchrist's son.

[18] Horace Greeley, nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for the Presidency.

[19] Burlington, Vermont, where Whitman's sister, Mrs. Heyde, lived.

[20] Henry M. Stanley, African Explorer.

[21] Undated. Made up from copy among Whitman's papers. This letter evidently belongs to the summer of 1873.

[22] The "Prayer of Columbus" was first published in _Harper's Magazine_ in March, 1874.

[23] John Cowardine. See "Anne Gilchrist, Her Life and Writings," pp. 149 ff.

[24] Daughters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman.

[25] Mrs. George Whitman.

[26] Sister.

[27] Niece.

[28] Sidney Morse, the sculptor.

[29] "Man's Moral Nature," by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke.

[30] This extract (?) is taken from H. H. Gilchrist's "Anne Gilchrist," p.

252. It is undated, but it is clearly a reply to the foregoing letter from Mrs. Gilchrist.

[31] Durham Cathedral.

[32] Anne Gilchrist's grandchild.

[33] Reproduced in "Anne Gilchrist, Her Life and Writings," facing p. 253.

[34] Richard Watson Gilder.

[35] Of Timber Creek, Camden County, New Jersey, whose hospitality helped Whitman to improve his health.

[36] The second edition of Alexander Gilchrist's "William Blake."

[37] Because of the death of her daughter Beatrice.

[38] Whitman's London publisher.

[39] Dr. Bucke, in his "Life of Whitman," had reprinted at the end of the volume many criticisms of the poet, adverse as well as favourable; likewise W. D. O'Connor's "Good Gray Poet."

[40] Edward Dowden, of the University of Dublin.

[41] Artists, famous for their etchings. Mr. Pennell made several etchings for Dr. Bucke's biography of Whitman.

[42] Mrs. Mary Davis, who was Whitman's housekeeper until his death.

[43] Daughter of Pearsall Smith, of Philadelphia.