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Title: Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. Gilder, 30 January 1876
Date: January 30, 1876
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00095
Source: Private collection of Dr. Kendall Reed. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 7:45. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Alex Kinnaman, Jonathan Y. Cheng, Elizabeth Lorang, Nima Najafi Kianfar, and Nicole Gray
431 Stevens st.
cor West. Camden, N.
Jersey
January 30.
76
Jeanette Gilder
Dear Madam,
I though[t] I would send you a copy, (see other side)1 of a note I have just forwarded to the Herald.
I also enclose a slip better describing "the situation",2 (which I wish my friends to bear in mind more than they do.)
I remain about the same. Rec'd your kind note, with piece. Hope I may yet meet you personally—& your brother, (whom I have heard of lately by my friend John Burroughs.)
I also send you a newspaper same mail with this.
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. The reverse is a copy of a letter to the Herald; see the letter from Whitman to the editor of the Herald of January 1876. [back]
2. The enclosures are now lost. [back]