Title: Walt Whitman to Joseph B. Gilder, 1 October 1884
Date: October 1, 1884
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00538
Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 3:378. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein and Kyle Barton
Camden New Jersey
October 1 18841
Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece "What Lurks" &c—
Walt Whitman
The slips & papers came safely—thanks—
Correspondent:
Joseph Benson Gilder (1858–1936) was, with his
sister Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849–1916), co-editor of The Critic, a literary magazine.
1. This letter is addressed: Joseph B Gilder | Critic Office | 20 Astor Place | New York City. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Pa. | Oct 1 84 | 5 PM. [back]