Camden
Dec 71
Dear Miss Gilder
Yours rec'd—and I send you some thoughts of mine on Burns—(a much
belabored subject—but I wanted to have my say)—Will make two & a
half pages—I sh'd like $20 for it2—
If you take it to print in next send me proof by Monday or Tuesday of next week &
I will return same evening—
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. Possibly an envelope in
the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, belongs
with this letter. The envelope is addressed: J L & J B Gilder | Critic |
office | 30 Lafayette Place | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden | Dec(?) |
7 | 5 PM | (?); P. O. | (?) 8(?)-82 | (?) | (?). [back]
- 2. "Robert Burns" appeared
in The Critic on December 16. Whitman received $15
for the article (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of
the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.). With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in
The North American Review, 143 (1886), 427–435,
and in November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888),
57–64. [back]