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Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 4 December 1885

Dear Herbert Gilchrist

As I doubt I made some small misfiguring in my last I send you an exact list of what I have rec'd of your good British "offering:"1

  • abt Sept. 8 £22.2.6—$107.54
  • Oct. 20th 37.12.— 183.11
  • Nov. 28 31 19— 155.53
—from which I am living—fuel, clothing, food, &c—personally living, this winter— Walt Whitman

You may as well hand this card to Mr Rossetti—


Correspondent:
Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist (1857–1914), son of Alexander and Anne Gilchrist, was an English painter and editor of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887). For more information, see Marion Walker Alcaro, "Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).


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