WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Two Autograph Letters Signed, with great Whitman content:
1. Herbert Gilchrist ("Herbert H. Gilchrist," son of Anne Gilchrist) to Bee [his older sister Beatrice Gilchrist] on Walt Whitman and the Staffords, 4 pp, 8vo, bifolium, Leeds Point, NJ, August 30, 1878, minor staining, mailing folds.
Herbert (or "Herby" as Whitman called him) writes to his older sister "Bee," who is studying medicine in Philadelphia, on their mother Anne Gilchrist, and on Whitman ("Walt is better than I have ever seen him before seems to have grown five years younger"), and on the Stafford family. Herbert has heard from Whitman that Mrs [Susan] Stafford has not been well, and Herbert asks whether Bee's hospital in Philadelphia accepts women from other states, as he thinks a brief stay would restore her. The previous summer, Herbert and Harry Stafford had gotten into a scrape over Herbert's sharp treatment of Harry. Whitman played a fatherly role to both young men, with the Stafford relationship somewhat sexually charged, which likely played a role in Stafford's perception. When Bee committed suicide in 1881, Herbert contacted Whitman with the news via Susan Stafford.
2. Mary A. Livermore ("Mary A. Livermore") to Walt Whitman asking about new works, his health, and bemoaning growing old, 2 pp, 8vo, Melrose Mass, September 10, 1888, mailing folds, light edgewear.
Mary A. Livermore was a noted journalist, abolitionist and advocate for women's rights. With the outbreak of the Civil War, she joined the U.S. Sanitary Commission and organized the Northwest Sanitary fair in Chicago in 1863, where Lincoln's copy of the emancipation proclamation was auctioned for $10,000. She worked as a nurse as well, and in 1887 her memoir My Story of the War was published. It's subtitle, "A woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front" says something of her energetic action throughout her life. Though she never appears to have met Whitman, Horace Traubel writes of her in With Walt Whitman in Camden, as the lifelong friend of Mrs. Albert Nichols, at whose funeral in 1889, more of Whitman's verses were read than from the Bible. Here she writes, in part: I don't mind dying, and am willing to go when the time comes. But I would like to retain health and my faculties until the mandate comes for me to step down and out...."
WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Two Autograph Letters Signed, with great Whitman content:
1. Herbert Gilchrist ("Herbert H. Gilchrist," son of Anne Gilchrist) to Bee [his older sister Beatrice Gilchrist] on Walt Whitman and the Staffords, 4 pp, 8vo, bifolium, Leeds Point, NJ, August 30, 1878, minor staining, mailing folds.
Herbert (or "Herby" as Whitman called him) writes to his older sister "Bee," who is studying medicine in Philadelphia, on their mother Anne Gilchrist, and on Whitman ("Walt is better than I have ever seen him before seems to have grown five years younger"), and on the Stafford family. Herbert has heard from Whitman that Mrs [Susan] Stafford has not been well, and Herbert asks whether Bee's hospital in Philadelphia accepts women from other states, as he thinks a brief stay would restore her. The previous summer, Herbert and Harry Stafford had gotten into a scrape over Herbert's sharp treatment of Harry. Whitman played a fatherly role to both young men, with the Stafford relationship somewhat sexually charged, which likely played a role in Stafford's perception. When Bee committed suicide in 1881, Herbert contacted Whitman with the news via Susan Stafford.
2. Mary A. Livermore ("Mary A. Livermore") to Walt Whitman asking about new works, his health, and bemoaning growing old, 2 pp, 8vo, Melrose Mass, September 10, 1888, mailing folds, light edgewear.
Mary A. Livermore was a noted journalist, abolitionist and advocate for women's rights. With the outbreak of the Civil War, she joined the U.S. Sanitary Commission and organized the Northwest Sanitary fair in Chicago in 1863, where Lincoln's copy of the emancipation proclamation was auctioned for $10,000. She worked as a nurse as well, and in 1887 her memoir My Story of the War was published. It's subtitle, "A woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front" says something of her energetic action throughout her life. Though she never appears to have met Whitman, Horace Traubel writes of her in With Walt Whitman in Camden, as the lifelong friend of Mrs. Albert Nichols, at whose funeral in 1889, more of Whitman's verses were read than from the Bible. Here she writes, in part: I don't mind dying, and am willing to go when the time comes. But I would like to retain health and my faculties until the mandate comes for me to step down and out...."
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