IX.
(White board, 4½" x 3½")
328 Mickle street — Dec 4 '85
Camden New Jersey U S America
Dear Herbert Gilchrist
As I doubt I made some small misfiguring in my last I send you
an exact list of what I have rec'd of your good British "offering:"
abt Sept. 8 |
£ 22 |
. |
2 |
. |
6 |
-- |
$107.54 |
Oct. 20th |
37 |
. |
12 |
. |
|
-- |
183.11 |
Nov. 28 |
31 |
|
19 |
|
|
-- |
155.53 |
—from which I am living—fuel, clothing, food,
&c—personally
living, this winter—
You may as well hand this card to Mr Rossetti
Although an international controversy had raged in 1876 over
Whitman's need of financial assistance, when Robert Buchanan
published an appeal for aid for him in an English journal, his
English admirers continued to help him. Traubel includes several
letters (II, 330; III, 65) from William Michael Rossetti in the
fall of 1885 sending contributions. Herbert Gilchrist was the son
of Whitman's ardent admirer Anne Gilchrist.