Richard Watson Gilder to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1883 a machine readable transcription Richard Watson Gilder Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Stefan Schöberlein Alex Kinnaman Natalie O'Neal Nicole Gray Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2014 The Walt Whitman Archive
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities 319 Love Library University of Nebraska-Lincoln P.O. Box 884100 Lincoln, NE 68588-4100

Copyright © 2012 by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, all rights reserved. Items in the Archive may be shared in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Redistribution or republication on other terms, in any medium, requires express written consent from the editors and advance notification of the publisher, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Permission to reproduce the graphic images in this archive has been granted by the owners of the originals for this publication only.

 loc.02222 Richard Watson Gilder Richard Watson Gilder to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1883 June 7, 1883 MSS18630 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Richard Watson Gilder Walt Whitman checked, corrected checked, corrected dateline to read like letterhead, corrected punctuation corrected transcription and encoding transcribed, encoded and annotations added Editorial Department The Century Magazine Union Square New York June 7, '83. My dear Mr. Whitman:

I do not know whether you saw a little paragraph in a recent number of the Critic—in the Lounger's department. I have not seen Dr. Bucke's book, but I was told that he had done me the honor of quoting some verses of mine. I was asked whether those verses were written for the book, or about yourself, and I said "No—they were published in the magazine some time ago and were suggested by another writer." I am very sorry that paragraph appeared as it did, or at all, as it might look as if I were not a friend and admirer of the subject of the book.

Are you coming North this summer? I wish you would come and see me at Marion, on Buzzard's Bay in Mass.Massachusetts If you will give me the slightest encouragement I will try to get Burroughs there to meet you. Splendid pine woods—good fishing and boating—a quiet little whaling village. Think well of it and let me know by return mail

Very sincerely yours R.W. Gilder. Walt Whitman Esq.