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Joseph B. Gilder to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1888

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  • Title: Joseph B. Gilder to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1888
  • Date: November 17, 1888
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Gilder
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.02214
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Blake Bronson-Bartlett Alex Ashland Breanna Himschoot Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Gilder, Joseph B.. "Joseph B. Gilder to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1888." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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 loc.02214.001.jpg see notes Nov 18th 1888 The Critic 743 Broadway New York 17 Nov: 1888 Dear Mr. Whitman:

I was particularly delighted to receive the enclosed communication, as an indication of your being in a tolerable state of health.1 Would that you were in, or nearer, New York, that your many friends here might see more of you!

Always sincerely yours Joseph B. Gilder  loc.02214.002.jpg

Correspondent:
Joseph Benson Gilder (1858–1936) was, with his sister Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849–1916), co-editor of The Critic, a literary magazine.

Notes

  • 1. In a form letter on October 19, 1888, Gilder and his sister Jeanette of The Critic asked for Walt Whitman's "answer to the question raised by Mr. Edmund Gosse in his paper in the October Forum, entitled 'Has America Produced a Poet?'—the question, namely, whether any American poet, not now living, deserves a place among the thirteen 'English inheritors of unassailed renown.'" Walt Whitman sent his reply on October 20, 1888, which J. B. Gilder acknowledges here (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Sunday, November 18, 1888). Whitman's response was published in the November 24, 1888, Critic, along with responses by many other writers (including John Greenleaf Whittier, John Burroughs, Francis Parkman, and Julia Ward Howe). See also Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Monday, October 22, 1888. [back]
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