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328 Mickle Street1
Camden New Jersey
April 21 '87—
I sh'd like all the proofs—(all that are taken,
without exception)2—sent to me here—I will
return them, with what I have to say—Send them flat—if convenient—
Hand this note to Mr Cox—I am all right—rec'd $600 for my lecture.3
Andrew Carnegie4 sent me $350 for his box—
Walt Whitman
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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. This postal card is
addressed: Miss Jeannette Gilder | Critic office | 743
Broadway | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden, N.J. | Apr 2[illegible] | 12 [illegible]M | 87; P.O. | 4–21–87 | 4 [illegible] P. | [illegible]; D | 4–21–87 | 5 [illegible] | N.Y. [back]
- 2. Apparently proofs of the
pictures taken by photographer C.O. Cox on April 15 (see Whitman's postal card
to William Sloane Kennedy of April 15, 1887,
n2). [back]
- 3. Whitman is referring to his
lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York
City on Thursday, April 14, 1887. He first delivered this lecture in New York in
1879 and would deliver it at least eight other times over the succeeding years,
delivering it for the last time on April 15, 1890. He had published a version of
the lecture as "Death of Abraham Lincoln" in Specimen
Days (1882–83). For more on the lecture, see Larry D. Griffin,
"'Death of Abraham Lincoln,'" Walt Whitman: An
Encyclopedia, J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, ed. (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998), 169–170. [back]
- 4. Andrew Carnegie
(1835–1919), the prominent industrialist and admirer of Whitman, had
donated twice to the support of the aged poet. [back]