Kirkwood (Glendale)1
March 31 '82
U S A
Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much
the same story of all my letters—but I knew you would like to hear—Mrs
S[tafford] and all the family well as usual—they often speak of you & of
the old times—I was over to the creek and by the old walnut-trees last
week—all beautiful & refreshing as ever—
Harry is still at Clementon—Mont is with B. S. at Kirkwood station—Ed has
gone up to Phila: to-day for store goods—Do you know of David Bogue,2 bookseller, Trafalgar Sq: who publishes my book in
London? Have you ever been in his place? I go up to Camden this evening—Yours
of last Jan: & your mother's of Feb. 6 rec'd3—
W W
Notes
- 1. This letter bears the
address: Herbert H Gilchrist | 12 Well Road | Keats' Corner Hampstead | London
England. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Mar | 31(?) | (?). [back]
- 2. On May 8 Anne Gilchrist informed Whitman that Herbert
had visited Bogue (see the letter from Whitman to Josiah Child of December 8, 1881), and discovered that "the sale of
Leaves of Grass was progressing satisfactorily." Bogue's father had published
her husband's "first literary venture" (The Letters of Anne
Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, ed. Thomas B. Harned [New York: Doubleday,
Page & Company, 1918], 207). On November 24
Anne Gilchrist wrote: "I fear you will be a loser by Bogue's bankruptcy" (The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman,
210). [back]
- 3. Herbert wrote on January 15; Anne Gilchrist on January 29 (The Letters of Anne
Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, 205–206). [back]