North, William Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer. Characterized as an &quot;eccentric literary man not without a spice of genius,&quot; William North was born in England and eventually settled in New York City (W. Rossetti 48-49).  In England he established a periodical &lt;cite&gt;North&#039;s Magazine&lt;/cite&gt;, and in New York he began publishing sensational stories like &quot;The Living Corpse&quot; which appeared in &lt;cite&gt;Putnam&#039;s&lt;/cite&gt; in 1853 and was later reprinted in the &lt;I&gt;Saturday Press&lt;/i&gt;.  Junius Browne indicates that North had some difficulty establishing a reputation as a writer: &quot;He found the struggle harder than he had anticipated; for, though a man of talent and culture, he lacked directness of purpose and capacity for continuous work. His disappointment soured him, and poverty so embittered his sensitive nature that he destroyed himself, leaving a sixpence, all the money he had&quot; (156).  This struggle led him to threaten suicide a variety of times, with Henry Clapp noting that &quot;his mind was always a little bit shaky&quot; (&lt;i&gt;Brooklyn Eagle&lt;/i&gt;, May 25, 1884).

North predates the opening of Pfaff&#039;s, but he shared many connections with its prominent visitors.  Most noteworthy was his connection to Fitz-James O&#039;Brien.  North had a falling-out with O&#039;Brien and &quot;called him a braggart, a borrower, and a bully&quot; (A. Parry 52).  North went so far as to satirize O&#039;Brien as &quot;Fitzgammon O&#039;Bouncer&quot; in his posthumously published novel &lt;cite&gt;The Slave of the Lamp&lt;/cite&gt; (1855).  The &lt;cite&gt;United States Review&lt;/cite&gt; characterized this text as &quot;a dangerous book for the young&quot; written by a man who, despite being &quot;but a few degrees removed from absolute genius,&quot; was laid low by his vanity and brought to despair, taking his own life in 1854. Some controversy later arose over whether O&#039;Brien&#039;s &quot;The Diamond Lens,&quot; published in the &lt;cite&gt;Atlantic Monthly&lt;/cite&gt;, was adapted from North&#039;s unpublished manuscript &quot;Microcosmos.&quot;  In an article that Gunn included in his diary, Charles Seymour defended the deceased North&#039;s work writing that the piece in question had &quot;remained inedited up to the time of his decease, [and] I can conscientiously identify as the waif on which Mr. O&#039;Brien has lain violent hands&quot; (Gunn, vol. 9, 78).  According to Gunn, North also knew Henry Clapp Jr., whom he first met in London at a party (Gunn, vol. 10, 146-7).  Their friendship blossomed during the late 1840s and early 1850s before his death (Whitley and Weidman 35).  According to Edward Whitley and Robert Weidman, &quot;in addition to being present at Henry Clapp&#039;s European rebirth as a bohemian, North would also play a key role in Clapp&#039;s efforts to transplant the spirit of the bohemia to the United States (36).

While William North died before the heyday of the Pfaff&#039;s scene, his life and works had a strong influence on the Pfaffians, and he &quot;served as a catalyst for helping the bohemians to forge their identity as a group&quot; (Whitley and Weidman 37).  To this extent, historian Albert Parry claims that &quot;[c]hronologically, North&#039;s suicide on November 14, 1854, began the true Bohemia. It cast the cloak of romantic tragedy over his circle. Some said that he swallowed prussic acid because he was unable to stand his journalist&#039;s poverty any longer; others maintained that he did it because of frustrated love. Romantic souls shed tears reading his letter to his friends, the artist [Frank] Bellew and his wife: &#039;May you be happy! Do not regret me. I am not fit for this world, I fly to a better world. I am calm and brave and hopeful&#039;&quot; (49).

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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/58080&quot;&gt;[Briggs, C.F.]. &quot;The Old and the New: A Retrospect and a Prospect.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Putnam&amp;#039;s Magazine&lt;/em&gt;, January 1, 1868, 1-5.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55733&quot;&gt;Browne, Junius Henri. &lt;em&gt;The Great Metropolis; A Mirror of New York&lt;/em&gt;. Hartford: American Publishing, 1869.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60154&quot;&gt;&quot;Last Words on the Diamond Lens Controversy.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, March 19, 1858, 2.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60173&quot;&gt;Lause, Mark A. &lt;em&gt;The Antebellum Crisis and America&amp;#039;s First Bohemians&lt;/em&gt;. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2009.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60155&quot;&gt;&quot;Lieut. Fitz-James O&amp;#039;Brien, US Volunteers.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Harper&amp;#039;s Weekly&lt;/em&gt;, April 26, 1862, 267.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60143&quot;&gt;&quot;Literary Intelligence: Literary Conflict.&quot; &lt;em&gt;American Publishers&amp;#039; Circular and Literary Gazette&lt;/em&gt;, March 16, 1858, 111-112.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60144&quot;&gt;&quot;Literary Intelligence: Literary Conflict - Rejoinder.&quot; &lt;em&gt;American Publishers&amp;#039; Circular and Literary Gazette&lt;/em&gt;, March 13, 1858, 121-122.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/59760&quot;&gt;Lukens, Henry Clay. &quot;American Literary Comedians.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Harper&amp;#039;s New Monthly Magazine&lt;/em&gt;, April 1, 1890, 783-797.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60158&quot;&gt;McCann, John Ernest. &quot;Not by William North.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art&lt;/em&gt;, August 19, 1902, 12.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60136&quot;&gt;&quot;Mr. William North.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Daily Times&lt;/em&gt;, November 16, 1854, 4.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60142&quot;&gt;&quot;Notices of New Books: The Slave of the Lamp.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Daily Times&lt;/em&gt;, April 18, 1855, 2.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55394&quot;&gt;O&amp;#039;Brien, Fitz-James. &quot;A Paper of All Sorts.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Harper&amp;#039;s New Monthly Magazine&lt;/em&gt;, March 1, 1858, 507-515.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55387&quot;&gt;O&amp;#039;Brien, Fitz-James. &quot;The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O&amp;#039;Brien. Collected and Edited, with a Sketch of the Author, by William Winter.&quot; In &lt;em&gt;The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O&amp;#039;Brien. Collected and Edited, with a Sketch of the Author, by William Winter&lt;/em&gt;, edited by William Winter. Boston: J.R. Osgood and Co., 1881.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;list-group-item-text&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;views-field views-field-field-mention-note&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-content&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;In his 1865 tribute to Fitz-James O&#039;Brien (&quot;O&#039;Brien&#039;s Personal Characteristics&quot;), George Arnold disputes the allegations that O&#039;Brien plagiarized William North&#039;s manuscripts for his short story &quot;The Diamond Lens.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55766&quot;&gt;Parry, Albert. &quot;Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America&lt;/em&gt;(1933).&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;list-group-item-text&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;views-field views-field-field-mention-note&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-content&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Parry claims that North&#039;s suicide started the Bohmian movement (49).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Parry also notes that Clapp &quot;whispered&quot; to others during this time that North could not stay in a room with the doors open, yet when his body was found in his rooms on Bond Street the doors were open.According to Parry, &quot;It appealed to the contemporary imagination that North was an Englishman, born at sea of a distinguished family, and that his body was to be shipped from New York to his far-off island home.The prissy William Winter, the most virtuous of all the Bohemians, said that the woman of the dead brother&#039;s despair was so beautiful that she could &#039;have inspired idolatrous passion in the breast of even a marble monument&#039;&quot; (49).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Parry mentions that North was the &quot;first enemy&quot; Fitz-James O&#039;Brien made in America (52).Of the &quot;frequent&quot; charges of plagiarism made against the Pfaffians, &quot;the first and most notable&quot; was made against Fitz-James O&#039;Brien and the &quot;Diamond Lens.&quot;The accusation was that O&#039;Brien had taken the story from North&#039;s papers when North committed suicide.&quot;The idea of the &#039;Lens&#039; was identical with that of North&#039;s unpublished &#039;Microcosmus,&#039; which story was known to a few friends but was never found in any magazine office or among North&#039;s possessions.Even if not true, this charge is indicative of the state of mind of the first Bohemia&quot; (55-56).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55765&quot;&gt;Pattee, Fred Louis. &quot;The Feminine Fifties.&quot; &lt;em&gt;The Feminine Fifties&lt;/em&gt;(1940).&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60151&quot;&gt;Picton, Thomas. &quot;The Diamond Lens Controversy.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, February 27, 1858, 4.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55763&quot;&gt;Rawson, A. L. &quot;A Bygone Bohemia.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Frank Leslie&amp;#039;s Popular Monthly&lt;/em&gt;, January 1, 1896, 96-107.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60034&quot;&gt;&quot;[Review of] The Slave of the Lamp.&quot; &lt;em&gt;United States Review&lt;/em&gt;, May 1, 1855, 417-418.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/59718&quot;&gt;Rossetti, William Michael. &lt;em&gt;Dante Gabriel Rossetti. His Family-Letters with a Memoir (Volume Two)&lt;/em&gt;. New York: AMS Press, 1970.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60132&quot;&gt;Rossetti, William Michael. &lt;em&gt;Some Reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti (Volume One)&lt;/em&gt;. New York: Charles Scribner&amp;#039;s Sons, 1906.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60156&quot;&gt;Scovel, James M. &quot;Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Lippincott&amp;#039;s Monthly Magazine&lt;/em&gt;, August 1, 1889, 244-251.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55879&quot;&gt;Sentilles, Renee M. &quot;Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity&lt;/em&gt;(2003).&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60135&quot;&gt;&quot;Suicide of Mr. William North.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Daily Times&lt;/em&gt;, November 16, 1854, 3.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60153&quot;&gt;&quot;The Diamond Lens Controversy.&quot; &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, March 15, 1858, 2.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55290&quot;&gt;Winter, William. &lt;em&gt;Old Friends; Being Literary Recollections of Other Days&lt;/em&gt;. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;list-group-item-text&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;views-field views-field-field-mention-note&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;field-content&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Winter recalls that after O&#039;Brien&#039;s &quot;The Diamond Lens&quot; was published, &quot;a groundless, foolish fable was set afloat&quot; that alleged that O&#039;Brien had taken the story from one of North&#039;s manuscripts.Winter states that &quot;the fact being that it[&#039;The Diamond Lens&#039;] was prompted by a remark made to him [O&#039;Brien] by Dr. A.L Carroll (he who, for a short time in 1865, published a comic paper called &#039;Mrs. Grundy&#039;), relative to the marvellous things contained in a drop of water&quot; (67-68).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;North wrote the novel &quot;The Man of the World,&quot; originally titled &quot;The Slave of the Lamp.&quot;North and O&#039;Brien had been friends, but that had had a falling-out, and in this novel North created a character named &quot;Fitz-Gammon O&#039;Bouncer,&quot; which &quot;described and satirized his former friend&quot; (68).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On November 13, 1854, &quot;disappointment in love, and everything else, being the cause of his deplorable act,&quot; North committed suicide by drinking prussic acid at No. 7 Bond Street, New York.He was about twenty-eight years old.North was originally from England and was &quot;a scion of the Guilford family.&quot;Winter notes that &quot;both in London and New York, he had worked incessantly with his pen,--writing stories in such magazines as the old &#039;Graham&#039;s&#039; and &#039;The Knickerbocker,&#039; and contributing in various ways to the press.&quot;At the time of his death, &quot;An envolope was found on his desk, containing twelve cents, with a few written words, stating that to be the fruit of his life&#039;s labor&quot; (68).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Winter reprints a letter from Seymour to Bellew that discusses North&#039;s suicide, dated November 17, 1854.Seymour writes:&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You are long ere acquainted with the melancholy death of our poor friend North&#039;s career.He left a letter for you, which has been forwarded.Other particulars of the event were published in the &quot;Daily Times&quot; and other papers.The cause of death was love, not poverty.He impressed that on me, the night before the catastrophe.I little thought the threat he uttered then,--as he had done many times before,--would so surely be carried into execution.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is to me, and it will be to you, a source of inexpressible consolation that we, at least, of all his friends, understood, appreciated, and loved him to the last.To the time of his death I valued him as a brother, and cannot recall an angry word that ever passed his lips or mine.Poor fellow; my heart bleeds when I think of his sad, sad end.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wish to relieve you on one point where you will, I am sure, experience uneasiness.Everything that propriety and love demanded has been done.The corpse now lies in the vault of Greenwood Cemetery.I have not interred it, because I thought it necessary to write to England, to consult North&#039;s relations, before doing so.I ask nothing from them, only the privilege of honoring my poor friend&#039;s remains here, if they do not wish them there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A great amount of sympathy has been elicited by the event, but I have not permitted it to interfere with my action in the matter.Excepting myself and Underhill, there was no other friend here from whom North would have accepted a favor.I have not allowed any one to offend his memory by offering his assistance now.Underhill insisted, and he alone participated.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have ninety days privilege of the vault.If I do not hear from England in that time, I shall purchase a plot of ground, and suitably mark the spot where lies a man of genius, a gentleman, and a kind, brave, well loved friend. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With wishes for your happiness,&lt;br&gt;
I am, dear Bellew,&lt;br&gt;
Yours in sorrow,&lt;br&gt;
C. Seymour. (313-314)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Winter reports that it has been over fifty years since North has died.Winter remarks that North was &quot;Not widely known in his own time, he is not at all known now: yet his writings, notwithstanding indications of a visionary, unstable brain, possess poetical enthusiasm and are a part of literature, while his personal story has a place in literary annals.Under the name of &lt;cite&gt;Dudley Mondel&lt;/cite&gt;, he has, to some extent, sketched himself, in his novel called &quot;The Slave of the Lamp,&quot;--existant now, though long out of print, as &quot;The Man of the World.&quot;According to Winter, North&#039;s given personal history states that he was born at sea and eduated partly in England and partly in Germany.North&#039;s boyhood novel was titled &quot;Anti-Coningsby&quot;and was written &quot;for the purpose of controverting the political views of the then young Disraeli.&quot;According to Winter, North came to New York at about the age of twenty-five and &quot;wrote industriously for &#039;Graham&#039;s Magazine,&#039; &#039;Harper&#039;s Magazine,&#039; &#039;The Knickerbocker Magazine,&#039; &#039;The Whig Review,&#039; and other periodical publications.&quot;Winter lists some of North&#039;s stories: &quot;The Phantom World,&quot; &quot;The Usurer&#039;s Gift,&quot; &quot;My Ghost,&quot; and &quot;The Man that Married His Grandmother.&quot;Winter claims that &quot;North&#039;s fantastic, almost delirious &#039;Slave of the Lamp&#039; is not for a moment comperable with &#039;Treasure Island,&#039; but it contains a remote premonition of that remarkable tale, in its account of a voyage to an auriferous isle, somewhere in the Antarctic zone, on which the adventurous &lt;cite&gt;Dudley Mondel&lt;/cite&gt;, the hero of the novel, and his singularly miscellaneous companions found much gold, and on which, deep in the crater of a vast conical mountain, they discovered a broad lake of quicksilver, into which one of the group fell and was converted into a statue, reposing on the surface of the lake&quot; (314-315).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;About the woman believed to be the cause of North&#039;s suicide, Winter states: &quot;The woman for hopeless love of whom North committed suicide was, in after years, known to me, and certainly she was beautiful enough to have inspired idolatrous passion in the breast of a marble monument&quot; (315).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In a discussion of William North, Winter calls upon information he received from Clapp: &quot;Henry Clapp, who knew him well, told me that it was one of North&#039;s peculiarities that, in whatever room he chanced to be, at night, he could not bear to have the door stand open, even an inch: yet the door of the room in which he died was found to be standing ajar by persons who, at morning, discovered the corpse&quot; (316-317).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Winter also reprints the letter North wrote to Bellew.The letter, written in blue ink and addressed to F.T. Bellew and Mrs. Bellew read:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dear Friends:--May you be happy!Do not regret me.I am not fit for this world.I fly to a better life.I am calm and brave and hopeful. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ever affectionately and truly,&lt;br&gt;
W. North.(317)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55748&quot;&gt;Wolle, Francis. &lt;em&gt;Fitz-James O&amp;#039;Brien: A Literary Bohemian of the Eighteen-Fifties&lt;/em&gt;. Boulder, Col.; University of Colorado, 1944.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;North later commited suicide.&lt;/p&gt;
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