29 research outputs found
My Dear Comrade Frederickus : Walt Whitman and Fred Gray
Offers detailed biographical information (and two photographs) of Whitman’s close friend, Fred Gray, and examines the nature of what Whitman called the “Fred Gray Association,” “a circle of New York comrades,” some of them “highly literate and upwardly mobile,” who frequented Pfaff’s beer hall and had “ties to the nearby New York Hospital”; traces Whitman’s continuing associations with Gray and his associates throughout the poet’s life
"I am more interested than you know, Bill": The Life and Times of William Henry Duckett, Jr.
Traces Whitman\u27s carriage driver and "youthful companion" Bill Duckett\u27s (1869-1904?) life, filling in details of his ancestry, his family, his childhood, and his peripatetic adult life—including his marriage, divorce, military service, occupation, and death, all previously unknown to Whitman scholars
Walt Whitman, Editor at the <i>New-York Atlas</i>
The Walt Whitman Archive journalism grant team introduces a new discovery and proposes a new theory of Whitman as an editor at the New-York Atlas.