Life & Letters

Correspondence

About this Item

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 created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.

Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, Nicole Gray, Kenneth M. Price, and Elizabeth Lorang



page image
image 1
page image
image 2


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]


Comments?

Published Works | In Whitman's Hand | Life & Letters | Commentary | Resources | Pictures & Sound

Support the Archive | About the Archive

Distributed under a Creative Commons License. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price, editors.