Am in New York and may arrive in Camden1 at any moment.2
Herbert Gilchrist
Correspondent:
Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist
(1857–1914), son of Alexander and Anne Gilchrist, was an English painter
and editor of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings
(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887). For more information, see Marion Walker Alcaro,
"Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.
Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
Notes
- 1. Elizabeth Leavitt Keller
describes Whitman's reaction as follows: "'He's coming to paint me,' said Mr.
Whitman on reading the message; 'I had forgotten about him. We will put him over
there somewhere; I don't see what I can do to stop it; he has come all the way
from England—from England'" (Walt Whitman in Mickle
Street [New York: J. J. Little and Evans, 1921], 76–77). [back]
- 2. Herbert Gilchrist painted an
oil portrait of Whitman in the summer of 1887; it was still unfinished when he
returned to London in September. Gilchrist then painted a finished replica of
the painting that he displayed at the Grosvenor Gallery in London (he brought
this replica back to the U.S. the next year, and it is now in the University of
Pennsylvania Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library). See Ruth L. Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman (University Park: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 97–105. [back]