The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman   By: Anne Burrows Gilchrist (1828-1885)

[Illustration: Walt Whitman

Photograph taken about the year 1870]

THE LETTERS OF ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN

Edited With an Introduction

BY THOMAS B. HARNED One of Walt Whitman's Literary Executors

Illustrated

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

In Memoriam AUGUSTA TRAUBEL HARNED 1856 1914

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE xix

INTRODUCTION xxi

A WOMAN'S ESTIMATE OF WALT WHITMAN 3

A CONFESSION OF FAITH 23

LETTER

I. WALT WHITMAN TO WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI AND ANNE GILCHRIST 56

II. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN Earl's Colne September 3, 1871 58

III. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN Shotter Mill, Haslemere, Surrey October 23, 1871 65

IV. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST Washington, D. C. November 3, 1871 67

V. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., N. W., London November 27, 1871 68

VI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., N. W., London January 24, 1872 72

VII. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST Washington, D. C. February 8, 1872 75

VIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., N. W., London April 12, 1872 76

IX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., N. W., London June 3, 1872 79

X. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., N. W., London July 14, 1872 82

XI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq. November 12, 1872 85

XII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., London, N. W. January 31, 1873 86

XIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Rd., Camden Sq., London, N. W. May 20, 1873 88

XIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN Earl's Colne, Halstead August 12, 1873 91

XV. WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST Camden, New Jersey Undated. Summer of 1873 94

XVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN Earl's Colne, Halstead September 4, 1873 96

XVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Road, Camden Square, London, N. W. November 3, 1873 98

XVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Road, Camden Square, London, N. W. December 8, 1873 102

XIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN 50 Marquis Road, Camden Square, London, N. W. February 26, 1874 105