Anne Gilchrist —— Her Life and Writings

-----

ISBN: 9781331086505 出版年：2016 页码：423 Anne Burrows Gilchrist Forgotten Books

That a correspondence covering a period of forty years should have been preserved, is due to the fact of my mother's life-long friendships; and to the methodical care of those to whom her letters were addressed - I sincerely thank those friends. Some of her most beautiful, characteristic and copious letters were written to her friend Walt Whitman. I suggested to Mr. Whitman, the giving of these letters or rather extracts from them, for publication in the present volume. But the poet was not entirely favourable or willing. I do not know, he says in a late letter to me, that I can furnish any good reason, but I feel to keep these utterances exclusively to myself.