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[8] First printed in Horace Traubel's "With Walt Whitman in Camden," III, 513.
[9] Evidently meaning the letter of September 3d.
[10] Missing.
[11] Percy Carlyle Gilchrist who became an inventive metallurgist.
[12] Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, who became an artist.
[13] Printed from copy retained by Whitman.
[14] To deliver his Dartmouth College ode.
[15] William Douglas O'Connor, an ardent Washington friend of Whitman.
[16] John Burroughs, the naturalist, then a young author and disciple of Whitman.
[17] Anne Gilchrist's son.
[18] Horace Greeley, nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for the Presidency.
[19] Burlington, Vermont, where Whitman's sister, Mrs. Heyde, lived.
[20] Henry M. Stanley, African Explorer.
[21] Undated. Made up from copy among Whitman's papers. This letter evidently belongs to the summer of 1873.
[22] The "Prayer of Columbus" was first published in _Harper's Magazine_ in March, 1874.
[23] John Cowardine. See "Anne Gilchrist, Her Life and Writings," pp. 149 ff.
[24] Daughters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman.
[25] Mrs. George Whitman.
[26] Sister.
[27] Niece.
[28] Sidney Morse, the sculptor.
[29] "Man's Moral Nature," by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke.
[30] This extract (?) is taken from H. H. Gilchrist's "Anne Gilchrist," p.
252. It is undated, but it is clearly a reply to the foregoing letter from Mrs. Gilchrist.
[31] Durham Cathedral.
[32] Anne Gilchrist's grandchild.
[33] Reproduced in "Anne Gilchrist, Her Life and Writings," facing p. 253.
[34] Richard Watson Gilder.
[35] Of Timber Creek, Camden County, New Jersey, whose hospitality helped Whitman to improve his health.
[36] The second edition of Alexander Gilchrist's "William Blake."
[37] Because of the death of her daughter Beatrice.
[38] Whitman's London publisher.
[39] Dr. Bucke, in his "Life of Whitman," had reprinted at the end of the volume many criticisms of the poet, adverse as well as favourable; likewise W. D. O'Connor's "Good Gray Poet."
[40] Edward Dowden, of the University of Dublin.
[41] Artists, famous for their etchings. Mr. Pennell made several etchings for Dr. Bucke's biography of Whitman.
[42] Mrs. Mary Davis, who was Whitman's housekeeper until his death.
[43] Daughter of Pearsall Smith, of Philadelphia.
