Fritsch, Hugo  Hugo Fritsch, son of the Austrian consul, was part of the &quot;Fred Gray Association,&quot; a group that Ed Folsom and Ken Price characterize as &quot;a loose confederation of young men who seemed anxious to explore new possibilities of male-male affection&quot; (&quot;Walt Whitman&quot;).   

Whitman composed several letters to Fritsch in his post-Pfaff&#039;s period working as a hospital volunteer during the Civil War. In one of these letters Whitman wrote, &quot;Hugo, write oftener--you express your thoughts so perfectly--do you not know how much more agreeable to me is the conversation or writing that does not take hard paved tracks, the usual &amp; stereotyped, but has little peculiarities &amp; even kinks of its own, making its genuineness--its vitality? Dear friend, your letters are precious to me--none I have received from any one are more so.&quot; He continued, &quot;I see in your letter, Hugo, you speak of my being reformed--no, I am not so frightfully reformed either, only the hot weather here does not admit of drinking heavy drinks, &amp; there is no good lager here--then besides I have no society--I expect to prove to you &amp; all yet that I am no backslider&quot; (&lt;I&gt;CW&lt;/i&gt; 1:126).


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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60176&quot;&gt;Blalock, Stephanie M. &quot;&amp;#039;My Dear Comrade Frederickus&amp;#039;: Walt Whitman and Fred Gray.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Walt Whitman Quarterly Review&lt;/em&gt; 27, no. 1 (2009): 49-65.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/71349&quot;&gt;Miller, Edwin Haviland. &quot;Introduction.&quot; In &lt;em&gt;The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: Volume I, 1842-1867&lt;/em&gt;, edited by Edwin Haviland Miller. New York: New York University Press, 1961.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/56340&quot;&gt;Whitman, Walt. &quot;Letter to Hugo Fritsch, Before August 7, 1863.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Walt Whitman: The Correspondence&lt;/em&gt; 1, (1961): 123-124.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/56387&quot;&gt;Whitman, Walt. &quot;Letter to Hugo Fritsch.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Letter to Hugo Fritsch&lt;/em&gt;(1863): 125-127.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/56342&quot;&gt;Whitman, Walt. &quot;Letter to Hugo Fritsch, October 8, 1863.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Walt Whitman: The Correspondence&lt;/em&gt; 1, (1961): 158-160.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/56385&quot;&gt;Whitman, Walt. &quot;Letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, March 31, 1863.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Walt Whitman: The Correspondence&lt;/em&gt; 1, (1961): 85-87.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/56386&quot;&gt;Whitman, Walt. &quot;Letter to Nathaniel Bloom, September 5, 1863.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Walt Whitman: The Correspondence&lt;/em&gt; 1, (1961): 141-143.&lt;/a&gt;
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