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Title: Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, 6 February 1883
Date: February 6, 1883
Whitman Archive ID: owu.00053
Source: The Bayley-Whitman Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University,
Delaware, OH. 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 derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented, updated, or created by Whitman Archive staff as appropriate.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, Nicole Gray, Kenneth M. Price, and Elizabeth Lorang
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Camden
Feb 6 '83
Yours with the $15 (13) just rec'd1—thanks—yes, I want some copies of last Critic—if convenient send me six copies—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Jeannette Leonard Gilder (1849–1916) helped
her brother, Richard Watson Gilder (1844–1909), edit Scribner's
Monthly and then, with another brother, Joseph Benson Gilder (1858–1936), co-edited
the Critic (which she co-founded in 1881). For more, see
Susan L. Roberson, "Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
Notes:
1. Payment for "The Bible as Poetry" (see the letter from Whitman to the Gilders of January 25, 1883). The editors deducted $2 for the offprints which Whitman requested. [back]