Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1887 a machine readable transcription Herbert Gilchrist Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Alex Kinnaman Stefan Schöberlein Ian Faith Kevin McMullen Stephanie Blalock Marie Ernster Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2019 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.03928 Herbert Gilchrist Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1887 March 31, 1887 MSS18630, Box 16, Reel 10 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms004014.mss18630.00359 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This letter from Gilchrist is written in two columns on the same side of the leaf, the letter beginning in the right column and concluding in the left column. An image of the entire leaf is unavailable, but images of each column are provided, in reading order. On the back, Whitman wrote a letter to Susan Stafford on April 12, 1887. This letter was intended as an enclosure for Stafford. Herbert Gilchrist Walt Whitman added DOI final check, corrected added link to verso image, and changed encoding of second recto image, adding an explanatory note edited annotated checked and corrected transcribed and encoded C/. Leonard M. Brown. THE GLEBE HOUSE.HUNSTANTON.S.C.NORFOLK. 31st March 1887. My Dear Walt,

As you see by my address I am staying with a great friend of yours. You may see him this summer for he is going to America at the end of April,—going out as a schoolmaster to settle somewhere up the Hudson. He is an uncommonly good fellow, quiet earnest serious soul and very practical, full of solid worth, whose knowledge and attainments are sure to be valued in America. His father is a clergyman, and this son of his reads Leaves of Grass silently & unobserved by the rest of his orthodox family.

I posted a copy of my book to you about a week ago: I hope that you will read it and tell me how you like it.

Andrew Lang wrote a leader in the Daily News about it and fine things have been said in the London, and Scotch Press particularly. As yet, I have not taken my passage, but I hope to come early in May, and to spend a nice slice of my time near you in Camden. I consider that your poems have gained ground here perceptibly within the last 2 years. Leonard Brown sends his love &

with love from Herbert H. Gilchrist.