LXV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, Hampstead, London_ _May 6, 1883_ 215 LXVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, Hampstead, London_ _July 30, 1883_ 217 LXVII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, Hampstead, London_ _October 13, 1883_ 220 LXVIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, Hampstead, London_ _April 5, 1884_ 223 LXIX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Hampstead, London_ _May 2, 1884_ 225 LXX. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, London_ _August 5, 1884_ 227 LXXI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Wolverhampton_ _October 26, 1884_ 228 LXXII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, Hampstead, London_ _December 17, 1884_ 230 LXXIII. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Keats Corner, Hampstead, London_ _February 27, 1885_ 233 LXXIV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Hampstead, London_ _May 4, 1885_ 236 LXXV. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _Hampstead, London_ _June 21, 1885_ 239 LXXVI. ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN _12 Well Road, Hampstead, London_ _July 20, 1885_ 241 ILLUSTRATIONS Walt Whitman _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Anne Gilchrist 54 Facsimile of a typical Whitman letter 94 Facsimile of one of Anne Gilchrist's letters to Walt Whitman _in the text pages_ 131, 132 PREFACE Probably there are few who to-day question the propriety of publishing the love-letters of eminent persons a generation after the deaths of both parties to the correspondence. When one recalls the published love-letters of Abelard, of Dorothy Osborne, of Lady Hamilton, of Mary Wollstonecraft, of Margaret Fuller, of George Sand, Bismarck, Shelley, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and--to mention only one more illustrious example--of the Brownings, one must needs look upon this form of presenting biographical material as a well-established, if not a valuable, convention of letters.