Part 23 (1/2)

[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 Was.h.i.+ngton 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.