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Title: Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 7 December [1882]
Date: December 7, 1882
Whitman Archive ID: mid.00021
Source: Abernethy Library of American Literature, Middlebury College, VT. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 3:318. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, and Nicole Gray
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]