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Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 9 April 1881

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 9 April 1881
  • Date: April 9, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.02207
  • 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 created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), vol. 7, and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kirsten Clawson Nima Najafi Kianfar Stefan Schoeberlein Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 9 April 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 26 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.02207.xml (TEI)
 loc.02207.001_large.jpg 431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey April 9 '81 My Dear Miss Gilder

Thanks for the slips of No:​ 2,1 which have duly come. Also the paper—I believe I shall have to decline writing about Victor Hugo, for you—don't know enough about him2—(the article in to-day's Critic seems to me to have it about right)—

I send you two more batches of Notes—

I am going on to Boston middle of next week—return forthwith.3

Walt Whitman

Send on the proofs as before—Have you ever thought of asking Wm.​ D. O'Connor of Washington, Life Saving Service Bureau to write for you?4

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Notes

  • 1. "No. 2" was part of a series of six articles entitled "How I Get Around at 60 and Take Notes." [back]
  • 2. Whitman's lengthiest comment on the writings of Hugo appeared in the New York Daily Graphic in 1874; see Prose Works 1892, ed. Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 2:759. [back]
  • 3. Whitman delivered his Lincoln speech in Boston on April 15 (see the letter from Whitman to the Staffords of April 15-[17], [1881]). [back]
  • 4. Apparently Jeannette Gilder (1849–1916) never asked William D. O'Connor to write for The Critic. [back]
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