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Camden
Jan: 10 '841
The slips rec'd, (thanks) of course making it unnecessary for you to
send the ten copies CBut did you mail the five copies of paper to the addresses?2 Send me a postal telling me.
Walt Whitman
If not already mailed, you need not do it—I will attend to it—
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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: J L & J B Gilder | Critic office | 20
Lafayette Place | New York City. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Pa. | Jan 11
84 | 5 30 PM; P.O. | 1-11-84 | 12 (?) | N.Y.; 1-12-84 | 6 (?) | N.Y. [back]
- 2. Whitman on December 21,
1883, sent "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" to The North
American Review and asked $40; it was returned. He then sent the
piece to The Critic on December 27 and requested $12,
and it was printed on January 5, 1884 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.
Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.). When the magazine failed to send, as requested,
copies of the article to Dowden, Symonds, Schmidt, Rolleston, and O'Connor,
Whitman sent them himself on January 9 or thereabouts (Commonplace Book). The
article was later incorporated into "A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads" (November Boughs [1888], 5–18). [back]