Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE LETTERS OF ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN [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