Chapter 7 Notes
1. One of the Old Crowd, "Remembrances of the Bohemian Club," 12.
2. Karbiener, "Whitman at Pfaff's," 13.
3. Ibid.
4. Mann Hatton, "Sought, Seen, Heard," New York Evening Post, June 20, 1925, 8; Ebenezer Clapp, The Clapp Memorial: Record of the Clapp Family in America: Containing Sketches of the Original Six Emigrants, and a Genealogy of Their Descendants Bearing the Name: with a Supplement and the Proceedings at Two Family Meetings (Boston: David Clapp & Son, Publishers, 1876), 40.
5. F. B. S., "A Visit To Walt Whitman," 10.
6. Chambers, "Do Lovers of Literature," 5; "'Bohemians' and 'Tips,'" 3.
7. "[Image of Pfaff's Beer Cellar]," Sunday Inter Ocean, August 12, 1888, 16.
8. G. J. M., "Bohemianism," 9.
9. "Bohemian Days at Pfaff's," New York Herald, 8.
10. G. J. M., "Bohemianism," 9.
11. Parry, Garrets and Pretenders, 21.
12. "Old Days at Pfaff's," New York Herald, November 2, 1890, 28; "The 'Bohemians' of New York," Chicago Tribune, 1; "Library Chat," Cambridge Tribune, 5.
13. "Old Days at Pfaff's," New York Herald, 28.
14. "Newspaper Salaries," The Wayne County Herald, July 2, 1891, 1.
15. McDermott, "Ghosts of Bohemia," 12.
16. Parry, Garrets and Pretenders, 32; "Our Secret Told," The New-York Traveler; And United States Hotel Directory, 5.
17. Chambers, "Do Lovers of Literature Recognize Debt to Bohemia," 5.
18. Launcelot, "Our New York Letter…Some Account of the Bohemians of New York [. . .]," 2.
19. Ibid.
20. Hugh Farrar McDermott, "The Good Gray Poet: Walt Whitman and How He Chose His Career", Bismarck Daily Tribune, February 16, 1890, 4.
21. Walsh, Pen Pictures of Modern Authors, 163.
22. Rawson, "A Bygone Bohemia," 106.
23. Ibid; Wolfe, "Some Literary Shrines of Manhattan, II, 857.
24. Since the first two editions of Leaves of Grass had not sold as well as Whitman hoped and since his writings consisted of lists and long, unrhymed lines that caused some readers to wonder if they were even poetry, he easily satisfied the Bohemian pre-requisite of having written an unsuccessful and, in the opinions of some, an "unreadable" book. See "Bohemia in New-York," New York Times, January 6, 1858, 4.
25. "The 'Bohemians' of New York," Chicago Tribune, 1.
26. M., "Life in a Bar-room [for the Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, January 13, 1866, 26.
27. Watson, "New York Bohemians," 16.
28. "Our Secret Told," The New-York Traveler and United States Hotel Directory, 5.
29. Parry, Garrets and Pretenders, 23.
30. Megargee, "Round Table Knights," 9.
31. Ibid.