ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
HERBERT H. GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
ANNE GILCHRIST TO WALT WHITMAN
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.