I send you this note just rec'd—as you might possibly care to make an item from it—Please return it to me1
Walt Whitman See Critic Lounger July 3Trusting that the intelligence conveyed will plead for my presumption, I venture to enclose you a few lines. At a sale of Autographs & Books a few days ago the following prices were obtained.
Correspondent:
The editor of the Critic in 1886 was Jeannette Gilder (1849–1916),
who wrote that "one of the things of which I am most proud is that the Critic was the first publication of its class to invite
Walt Whitman to contribute to its pages" (see Charles N. Elliot, Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Friend [1915], 97); she
was assisted in her editorial tasks by her brother Joseph. For more information,
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).