[8] First printed in Horace Traubel’s “With Walt Whitman in Camden,” III, 513.
[9] Evidently meaning the letter of September 3d.
[10] Missing.
[11] Percy Carlyle Gilchrist who became an inventive metallurgist.
[12] Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, who became an artist.
[13] Printed from copy retained by Whitman.
[14] To deliver his Dartmouth College ode.
[15] William Douglas O’Connor, an ardent Washington friend of Whitman.
[16] John Burroughs, the naturalist, then a young author and disciple of Whitman.
[17] Anne Gilchrist’s son.