I wonder if you are at Camden, taking your daily trips across the ferry & strolls up Chestnut St. I hardly realized till I left it how dearly I love America--great sunny land of hope and progress--or how my whole life has been enriched with the human intercourse I had there. Give my love to those of our friends whom you know & tell them not to forget us. I have had a long letter from Emma Lazarus. I suppose Hattie and Jessie are spending their holidays at Camden & that Hattie has pretty well done with school. We have been chiefly busy with needlework since we came--preparing dear Bee for Berne. I miss her sadly--had quite hoped we should have all been together at Paris this winter--but it seems the course is much longer & more arduous [there]. We spent a week in Edinburgh before we came on here. It is by far the most beautiful city I have ever seen. The journey between it and Berwick-on-Tweed lies through the richest & best cultivated farm land in Britain--the sea sparkling on one side of us & these fertile fields dotted with splendid flocks & herds--with large comfortable-looking farmhouses, & here & there an old castle; it was singularly enjoyable. How I have wished everywhere that you were with us to share the sight--and the best is that you would return home more than ever proud & rejoicing in America. It is a land where humanity is having, and is going to have, such chances as never before. Giddy sends her love. Mine also & to your brother & sister. Good-bye, dear Friend. A. GILCHRIST. Please write soon; I am longing for a letter. LETTER LII[30] WALT WHITMAN TO ANNE GILCHRIST _(Camden, New Jersey.) (August, 1879.)_ Thank you, dear friend, for your letter; how I should indeed like to see that _Cathedral_[31], I don't know which I should go for first, the Cathedral or _that baby_.[32] I write in haste, but I am determined you shall have a word, at least, promptly in response. LETTER LIII ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _1 Elm Villas, Elm Row, Heath St. Hampstead, Dec. 5, '79, London, England._ MY DEAREST FRIEND: