Camden,
Dec 31, '80.
Yes, my friend, I will supply you with some little out-door sketches—three, possibly four—for your paper at the price you propose. . . . You can rely on it within a week.1
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. Whitman agreed to write a
series of sketches for The Critic, a new magazine of
which Jeannette Gilder was editor. On January 5, 1881, he sent her the first
installment (see Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of
the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C., and Whitman's letter to Jeannette Gilder of January 8, 1881). The series, entitled "How I Get Around at 60, and
Take Notes," was printed during the following eighteen months: January 29, 1881
(2–3), April 9, 1881 (88–89), May 7, 1881 (116–117), July 16,
1881 (184–185), December 3, 1881 (330–331), and July 15, 1882
(185–186). [back]