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Title: Walt Whitman to the Editors of the Critic, 17 December 1886
Date: December 17, 1886
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01413
Source: 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 derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented, updated, or created by Whitman Archive staff as appropriate.
Editorial note: The annotation, "To Editor, | The Critic | Miller 1464.1," is in an unknown hand.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein, Ian Faith, Kyle Barton, and Nicole Gray
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328 Mickle street
Camden New Jersey
Dec. 17 '86—Evn'g
I send the Tennyson piece1—in hopes it will suit you & in hopes you will have it put in type to-day, so you can send me a proof this evening—which I will get to-morrow Sunday & return in the evening—Any how at the worst you would get it not later than Tuesday forenoon. The price of the piece is $10—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
The editor of the Critic from 1881 to 1906 was Jeannette Leonard Gilder
(1849–1916), who wrote that "one of the things of which I am most proud is
that the Critic was the first publication of its class to
invite Walt Whitman to contribute to its pages" (Charles N. Elliot, Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Friend [Boston: Richard G.
Badger, The Gorham Press, 1915], 97). She was assisted in her editorial work by
her brother Joseph Benson Gilder (1858–1936). For more information, see
Susan L. Roberson, "Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
Notes:
1. "A Word about Tennyson" appeared in the Critic on January 1, 1887. See also Whitman's letters to the editors of the Critic of December 15, 1886, and of December 1886. [back]