Saturday Press and, 79–80, 81–83, 120
Saturday Press revival and, 237–244
temperance movement and, 7–8
as theater critic for New York Leader, 155–156
Twain and, 241–242
Whitman and, 33, 74, 92–93, 100–101, 106–108, 160, 201, 239, 261
Wit, examples of Clapp’s sharp style, 7, 15, 27–28, 64, 84–86, 90, 155, 207, 237–239
Clare, Ada (Ada Agnes McElhenney), 1, 65–67, 91, 238
as actress, 65–66, 258–259
Asphodel and, 109, 120–121
on Bohemianism, 83
during Civil War, 201
death of, 259
as defiant single mother, 67,
Golden Era and, 212–213, 258
Menken and, 73, 213–215, 250
New York Leader and, 155
at Pfaff’s, 2, 65–67, 68, 73, 201
post–Civil War career, 257–259
as “Queen of Bohemia,” 66, 201, 213, 259
Saturday Press and, 83–84, 120
son Aubrey, 67, 212, 257, 258, 259
style as clever, forward-thinking essayist, examples 66, 83–84, 212–213
Thayer & Eldridge and, 96
Vanity Fair and, 131
in the West, 212–214
Whitman and, 73–74, 259
as writer/poet, 66
Clare, Aubrey, 67, 212, 213, 257, 258, 259
Clemens, Orion, 129
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 129–130. See also Twain, Mark
Cleveland Plain Dealer (newspaper), 130–132, 147, 204
Clifton, Ada, 73
Coffee
Paris, Clapp’s experience of, 10
Pfaff’s saloon, 18
Coffin, Tristram and Dionis, 5
Cold Harbor (Virginia), battle of, 219
Coleman House (New York City), 17, 24
“Come Up from the Fields, Father” (Whitman), 196, 229
Concord wagon, 174–175
Congregationalism, Clapp and, 5, 7
Congress, discord prior to Civil War, 48, 112–113
Continental Divide, 177
Continental Monthly (journal), 159
Cooper, James Fenimore, 238
Coos County (NH) Democrat (newspaper), 129
Le Corsaire-Satan (journal), 13
Cowley, Abraham, 200
Critic (periodical), 40–41
Cunningham, Oscar, 195
Curtis, George, 55–56
Cutter, Charles, 193
Daily Graphic (newspaper), 259
Daily Plebian (newspaper), 34
Daily Territorial Enterprise (newspaper), 186, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218
Dana, James, 177
“The Dandy Frightening the Squatter” (Clemens), 129–130, 216
Danforth, Jenny, 67, 68
Dante, 33, 266
Danville (Virginia) prison, 229
Dartmouth commencement, 266
Darwin, Charles, 185
David McKay (publishing house), 270
Davis, Jefferson, 136, 203
Davis, Mary, 271
Davis, Reuben, 113
Dawson, Dora, 203
“Decimal Currency, Weights, and Measures” (article), 243–244
Delacroix, Eugène, 143
Delano’s Improved Life-Preserving Vests, 86
DeQuille, Dan, 213–214, 217, 218
Derby, George, 129
Desbrosses brothers, 12
“The Diamond Lens” (O’Brien), 21, 157
Diarrhea, as cause of soldiers’ deaths, 191
Dickens, Charles, 71, 80, 249, 252–253
Diggs, Sally, 112
Diogenes, 19
Donaldson, Thomas, 3
Double Header (Seattle), 75
Douglas, Stephen, 190–191
Douglass, Frederick, 260–261
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 249
Doyle, Peter
Lincoln assassination and, 235, 240, 271
relationship with Whitman, 225–227, 228, 264–265, 268–269, 271
Dr. Abbott’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (New York), 35
Dred Scott decision, 49
“Drifts That Bar My Door” (Menken), 124
Drum-Taps and Sequel (Whitman), 239–241
Drum-Taps (Whitman), 221, 229–230, 234–235, 239
Dugué, Ferdinand, 250
Dumas, Alexandre, and sex scandal with Menken, 251–252
Edwards, Justin, 8
Egbert, Tom, 77
Eggers, Dave, 2
8th New York Volunteer Regiment (Blenker’s Rifles), 138
Eldridge, Charles
Saturday Press and, 120
Washington literary salon and, 200
Whitman in Washington and, 162, 190, 196
as Whitman’s publisher, 95–96, 100, 102, 269
11th Massachusetts Volunteers, 199
Elliott, John, 195
Ellis, Mike, 77
Emancipation Proclamation, 205
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Atlantic Monthly and, 81
as lecturer, 46, 133–134
Parnassus, 265–266
Whitman and, 31, 41–43, 99–100, 101, 103, 265–266
“Enfans d’Adam” cluster of poems (Whitman), 98, 103
Evening Tattler (newspaper), 34
Everett, Edward, 85–86
Femmes publiques, 11
Fern, Fanny, 39
Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (Fern), 39
Fields, James, 89
Fiery Fifties in America, 47–50, 61
55th New York Volunteer Infantry (Garde de Lafayette), 138
51st New York Infantry, 140, 157, 161, 163
Fire Eaters, 112
Fireman’s Hall (New York), 42
Fires, set by Confederate officers in New York, 223–224
First-person universal as Whitman poetic device, 39, 104
Fiske, Stephen, 26
Fistiana; or, The Oracle of Boxing (manual), 111
Ford, John, 141, 231
Ford’s Theatre (Washington, DC), 3, 141, 231, 232–233, 235
Forrest, Edwin, 203
Fort Donelson, battle of, 153
For the Pleasure of His Company (Stoddard), 185
Fort Sumter, 135–136
Fowler, Lorenzo, 37
Fowler, Orson, 37
France, Menken in, 250–251
Frankenstein (Shelley), 143
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 22
Free verse as poetic style pioneered by Whitman, 39, 240
French Opera House (New Orleans), 69–70
Fritsch, Hugo, 76, 201
Gardner, Alexander, 186–187
Garrison, William Lloyd, 7
Gay bars, history of 74–75
A Gentleman from Ireland (O’Brien), 21, 82, 157
Géricault, Théodore, 143
Gettyburg, battle of, 202
Giles, David S., 193
Godwin, Parke, 81
Golden Era (newspaper), 183, 184, 185, 186, 247
Clare and, 212, 258
The Good Gray Poet (O’Connor), 267
Goodman, Joseph, 212, 215
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 67, 257
Gough, John, 133
Grant, Julia, 232
Grant, Ulysses S., 229, 230, 231, 234
Gray, Fred, 76, 201
Gray, J. W., 131
Gray, Thos, 158
Graynor, Mark, 77
Great Britain
Menken in, 248–249
&
nbsp; Ward in, 253–255
“The Greatest Pain” (song), 200
The Great Metropolis (guidebook), 23, 24–25
Great Salt Lake, 180–181, 254
Greeley, Horace, 36, 80
Green Street Theatre (Albany, NY), 142, 145
Grisettes, 11
Grow, Galusha, 48
Gurowski, Adam de, 62
Halpine, Charles, 22, 256
Hammond, James, 83
Hammond, Senator James, 113
Handel and Haydn Society, 80
Hannibal (MO) Western Union (newspaper), 129
Harpers Ferry (Virginia) raid, 61, 102, 111
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 21, 23, 26, 88, 91–92, 209–210
Harper’s Weekly (magazine), 52, 55
Harrington (O’Connor), 200
Harris, Clara, 232
Harte, Bret, 80, 183–184, 185
Harvard University, 80
The Hasheesh Eater (Ludlow), 2, 50, 54–55, 168, 246
Hashish, 51–53, 54–55, 67–68, 168
Haskell, Erastus, 195–196
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 89, 90, 128
Hay, John, 54–55
Hayne, Robert, 65
Hearn Brothers, 24
Heart of the Andes (Church), 171
The Heart of the Continent (Ludlow), 247–248
Heenan, John, 109–110, 111, 113, 115–117, 123, 125, 146
Heenan-Sayers prizefight, 109–110, 113, 114–117
Helper, Hinton, 111–112
Herndon, William, 197–198
Higginson, T. W., 81
Hinton, Richard, 194–195
Holmes, John, 189, 192
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr., 27, 81, 89
Home Journal, 21
Homer, 33
Hong (an opium den), 187
Hooker, Joseph, 229
Hospital service, Whitman 3, 164, 165, 188–197, 202, 219, 225, 264
Hôtel Corneille (Paris), 9–10, 15
House, Edward, 139
Howard Athenaeum (Boston), 146
Howells, William Dean, 89–92
Whitman and, 91–92
Howland, Edward, 79, 86
“How to Cure a Cold” (Twain), 186
Hugo, Victor, 143, 204
Hurd and Houghton (publishing house), 246
Idiom, Whitman’s use of, 38, 39
“I Happify Myself” (White), 107
The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It (Helper), 111–112
Infelicia (Menken), 252–253
International Hotel (Virginia City), 213, 216
Irving, Peter, 27
Irving, Washington, 27
Irving, William, 27
Israelite (newspaper), 70
J. P. Jewett, 80
Jefferson, Thomas, 47
“Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (Twain), 241–242
John Camden Hotten (publishing house), 252
Johnson, Andrew, 231, 234
Johnson, Arnold, 200
Jones Wood (New York City), 123
Journal des Débats, 13–14
Joyce, James, 9
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), Booth brothers and, 221–224
Kansas, sectarian tensions in, 49, 111
Keitt, Laurence, 48
Kerr, Orpheus C. See Newell, Robert
Kneass, Nelson, 70
Knickerbocker (magazine), 21
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Dumas), 251–252
Knox, Henry, 83
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 27
Lacy House (Falmouth, Virginia), 164, 192
Ladies’ Bowling Alley (New York), 63
Ladies’ Oyster Shop (New York), 63
Ladies’ Reading Room (New York), 63
Lady Gaga, 2
LaFarge, John, 170
La Farge House (New York City), 223, 224
Lager, 18–19
Lander, Frederick, 139
Laudanum, 169
Laura Keene’s Varieties, 24
Lawrence, Joe, 183, 185, 186, 212
Leaves of Grass (Whitman)
fifth, sixth, seventh editions, 269–270
fourth edition, 265
translations of poems, 266
See also Leaves of Grass, first, second, and third editions
Leaves of Grass, first edition (Whitman), 31, 38–41, 96–97
Emerson and, 41–42
life experiences of Whitman that contributed to its creation, 33–38
reviews of, 40–41
sales of, 40
Leaves of Grass, second edition (Whitman), 31, 42–43, 96–97, 197
Emerson and, 42–43
Lincoln and, 197–198
sales of, 43
Leaves of Grass, third edition (Whitman), 3, 95–108, 109
Clapp’s promotion of 101, 106–108
illustrations, 99
parodies of, 106–107
piracy of, 121
presentiments of war in, 137
reviews of, 105–106, 107–108
sales of, 120
theme of union, 105
Whitman’s time at Pfaff’s, influence on, 46, 62, 77, 92–93, 97, 104
Lee, Robert E., 61, 161, 198, 230
Leisure Hour (magazine), 21
Leland, Charles, 131–132
Lincoln, Abraham, 96, 103
art, appreciation for 135, 197–198, 204–205, 222–223, 232
Artemus Ward and, 203–204
assassination of, 3, 230–234
as Bohemian, 238
Edwin Booth and, 223
election of, 119
Emancipation Proclamation, 205
Fort Sumter and, 135–136
funeral train, 237
inauguration of (1865), 228
John Wilkes Booth as actor and, 222–223, 228
Leaves of Grass and, 197–198
on Marye’s Heights, 161
mobilizing nation for war, 137
Nevada’s statehood and, 210
Whitman lecture on death of, 270–271
Whitman’s fascination with, 121–122, 197–198, 228, 230, 234–235, 239–241, 270–271
Whitman’s odes to, 239–241
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 24, 197, 231–232, 233
Lincoln, Tad, 197
“Lines to __” (Clare), 66
Liszt, Franz, 143
Logan, Olive, 238
London
Menken in, 248–249
Ward in, 253–255
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 27, 40, 45, 81, 266, 272
Long Islander (newspaper), 34
Long Island Patriot (newspaper), 34
Lorettes, 11
Los Fuertes, Dolores Adios, 69
Louvet, Lucile, 12–13
Love and Parentage (Fowler), 37
Lowell, James Russell, 81
The Luck of the Roaring Camp, and Other Tales (Harte), 184
Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 2, 50–56, 90, 139
Bierstadt and, 167–168, 170–178, 180–182, 186–187, 245–248
Booth (Edwin) and, 59, 172
buffalo hunt and, 173–174
childhood, 51
Customs House job, 167, 169
death of, 248
divorce from Rosalie, 245–246, 247
drug use, 51–54, 56, 168–169, 187, 246–247, 248
erudition and use of big words by, 50, 52, 54, 169, 177, 181, 182,185
The Hasheesh Eater, 2, 50, 54–55, 168
The Heart of the Continent, 247–248
personal and professional declin
e of, 246–248
at Pfaff’s, 2, 55, 62, 167, 246
in San Francisco, 181, 183–184, 185
trip West, 167, 170, 171–185, 186–187
on Twain, 186
on Virginia City, 210
visit to Utah and Mormons, 178–181
Ward and, 133
West Coast Bohemians and, 185
on Yosemite, 181–182
Ludlow, Helen, 168, 249
Ludlow, Rosalie (Osborne), 55, 133, 168, 172, 182, 245–246, 247
Lummus, Aaron, 7
Lynn (Massachusetts), 6–7, 260–261
Lynn Pioneer (newspaper), 6–7
Madison, James, 47
Maguire, Tom, 205–207, 223
Maguire’s Opera House
San Francisco, 208–209
Virginia City, 211, 215
Marion Rangers, 186
Marshall Theatre company (Richmond, Virginia), 60–61
Martin, Harriet, 123
Marye’s Heights, 161
Maryland
as Booth family home, 60
as border state, 60, 203–204
Masset, Stephen, 125
Mazeppa, Ivan, 142–143
Mazeppa; or, The Wild Horse of Tartary (play), 142–146, 150, 203–204, 223
in Great Britain, 249
parody version, 208
Western tour, 207–212
“Mazeppa” (Byron), 143
McClellan, George B., 229
McDowell, Irvin, 229
McElhenney, Ada Agnes. See Clare, Ada (Ada Agnes McElhenney)
McKinley, William, 54
McNelly, John, 158
McSorley’s (New York City), 64
Meade, George, 229
Melville, Herman, 34
Mencken, H. L., 5
Menken, Adah Isaacs, 2, 68–73
as actress, 69–70, 71–73, 109
career downturn, 123–125
career resurgence, 142, 144–146, 150
Clare and, 73, 213–215, 250
death of, 252
Alexandre Dumas and sex scandal, 251–252
in Europe, 248–253
Heenan and, 109–110, 111, 114, 117, 123, 125, 146
Judaism and, 70–71, 208–209, 252
Maguire and, 206–207
Mazeppa, 142, 144–146, 150, 203–204, 207–212, 223, 249
at Pfaff’s, 68, 73, 110–111, 125
poems, 70–71, 124, 249, 252–253
romantic interest in Hattie Tyng, 150–151
as sex symbol, 2, 72, 144–145, 208–209, 213, 249, 250–252
suicide attempt, 125
tour of the West, 207–212
Twain and, 211–212, 213–215
in Virginia City, 209–212, 213–215
Ward and, 146, 150, 205–207, 215, 253
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