FEINBERG/WHITMAN
Box 10 Folder 11
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE 
(oversize)
Gilchrist, Anne
Nov. 1871 & Nov. 1879
(DCN 184
DCN 203) Walt Whitman.  D. McKay, 1883.  The second letter (49p.) titled Tobey or not Tobey - that is the question, written also for publication, was never printed. Tobey is the name of the postmaster at Boston, who stopped the mailing of the magazine This World, which contained George Chainey's lecture.

Three letters (letterpress copies) dealing with the suppression:

George L. Chainey (minister, lecturer, editor of the magazine This World) to W.D. O'Connor (June 27, 1882; 7p.)
B. R. Tucker (editor of the Radical Review and Liberly "philosopher anrchist"), to O'Connor (July 4, 1882; 3p.)
O'Connor to B. R. Tucker (July 6, 1882; 8p.)1879 Nov. 10 WHITMAN TO "MY DEAR FRIEND" (Anne Gilchrist); from St. Louis. A.L.S. with envelope (2p. 20 1/2 x 13 cm.)

Telling of his trip West to the Rocky Mountains and Colorado, "The real America... Had to stop in St. Louis because of illness."  Enclosed: "a rude ma which will show you the line of my jaunt - the red lines are of my present trip, while the blue lines are of former journeys of mine".  The answer to this letter from Anne Gilchrist was written on Dec. 5, 1879 and reproduced in T. B. Harned's The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, 1918, p.187. {203}General Correspondence
Gilchrist, Anne from Whitman, Nov. 3, 1871. DCN 184
See
Located in oversize cabinetSt Louis Missouri
(1000 miles west of Philadelphia)
Nov 10 '79

     My dear friend,  Just rec'd 
your postal card -- (your letter of 
a month ago from Haslemere rec'd) both forwarded here
-- Two months ago I started off 
(make or break) on a long jaunt 
west -- have been to the Rocky 
Mountains (2000 miles) and 
Denver City, &Colorado generally
-- with Kansas and Missouri -- 
wonders revelations I wouldn't 
have miss'd for my life, the great central area 2000 miles square the Prairie States The Real America 
I find (& I find that I wasn't realizing 
it before) -- but three weeks 
ago I was taken down sick & 
have come back & stopt here in 
St Louis ever since -- am quite 
comfortable in quarters & shall 
soon be well enough to return 
home to Camden --I enclose a rude map which 
will show you the line of my 
jaunt -- the red lines are of 
my present trip, while the 
blue lines are of former journeys 
of mine, may interest you, 
& give you some idea --
-- I shall probably be able 
to send you papers of my 
jottings before long -- (my 
sickness has prevented hitherto
what I designed to write)
-- My sister, brother & nieces 
are well --- Best Love
Walt Whitman

Lived a couple of weeks on the 
Great Plains (800 miles wide, flat, 
the greatest curiosity of all)
-- 50 years from now this region 
will have a hundred millions of people 
the most comfortable, advanced & democratic 
on the globe- indeed it is all this 
& here that America is for --

[*2-93-241-93*]Mrs Anne Gilchrist
1 Elm Villa
Elm Row Heath Street
Hampstead
Longon England