Title: Walt Whitman to Joseph B. Gilder, 24 August 1886
Date: August 24, 1886
Whitman Archive ID: rid.00001
Source: University of Richmond. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 4:45. 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
328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey1
Aug 24
'86
Thanks for the $10, which came last Sunday as pay for the "Thought"2—Thanks for the slips & for the copies of the paper—came this morning—
Walt Whitman
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: Camden | Aug | (?) | 12 M | N.J.; D | 8-24-86 | 7 P | N.Y. [back]
2. "A Thought on Shakspere." [back]