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Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 May 1878
  • Date: May 10, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: hyb.00007
  • Source: Walt Whitman Collection, 1842–1957, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania; The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

    Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Alicia Bones Grace Thomas Anthony Dreesen Kevin McMullen Kirsten Clawson Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 May 1878." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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 upa.00037.001_large.jpg 431 Stevens Street Camden N J1 May 10 '78 Dear friend

Yours rec'd​ , & much pleas'd to hear you are in such satisfactory quarters—there is nothing very new or different with me—Though the rheumatism is not severe—any thing like its first attack—it still keeps its hold—my knees, & indeed whole joint & muscular power are affected—Was down at White Horse Monday & Tuesday, (two perfect days)2—& expect to be down there next Sunday—

—The Staffords are all about as usual—My sister & brother are well—I have rec'd​ Mr Linton's book "Poetry in America"—(it is a Vol:​ of Bohn's Standard Library)—It is a good collection—he gives my picture for frontispiece

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Miss Hillard has returned from Annapolis, after a fine visit, improved still in health3—is at Germantown, at "the Cocoonery"—Nothing in the way of letter lately from England—

—I have written to Herby to-day, to Brooklyn4—As I write I am sitting up in my third story room,—just after 4 p m—my sister down stairs sewing—it is very quiet in the house, almost lonesome—my brother away far in Pennsylvania at his work—& no, or very few visitors lately—The weather is fine day & night, for a rule—I am now going out for an hour two—

Love to all— Walt Whitman

I return the letter—I found it interesting—

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Notes

  • 1. The envelope for this letter bears the address: Mrs Anne Gilchrist | Round Hill Hotel | Northampton | Mass:. It is postmarked: Camden | May | 10 | N.J. [back]
  • 2. May 6 and 7, characterized in Whitman's Commonplace Book as "two fine days" (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). Whitman was at Kirkwood on Sunday, May 12. [back]
  • 3. See the letter from Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman of April 13–14, 1878. [back]
  • 4. See the letter from Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist of May 10, 1878. [back]
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