Wonder whether you care for this ¶ for y'r announcem'ts?2
—WhitmanThe late Wm D. O'Connor,3 of Washington, D.C. left unpublished the MS: of "the Brazen Android," a tale, which with other new and some other stories including "the Carpenter" will be issued in book form. It is to have a brief prefatory note by Walt Whitman.4
loc.01418.001_large.jpgCorrespondent:
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).