Stanley, (Henry)  Walt Whitman mentions Stanley as one of the people who frequented Pfaff&amp;rsquo;s: “Our host himself, an old friend of mine, quickly appear&amp;rsquo;d on the scene to welcome me and bring up the news, and, first opening a big fat bottle of the best wine in the cellar, talk about ante-bellum times, &amp;rsquo;59 and &amp;rsquo;60, and the jovial suppers at his then Broadway place, near Bleecker street. Ah, the friends and names and frequenters, those times, that place. Most are dead--Ada Clare, Wilkins, Daisy Sheppard, O&amp;rsquo;Brien, Henry Clapp, Stanley, Mullin, Wood, Brougham, Arnold--all gone. And there Pfaff and I, sitting opposite each other at the little table, gave remembrance to them in a style they would have themselves fully confirm&amp;rsquo;d, namely, big, brimming, fill&amp;rsquo;d-up champagne-glasses, drain&amp;rsquo;d in abstracted silence, very leisurely, to the last drop” (CW 5:21).  The man Whitman mentions may be Henry Stanley, a contributor to &lt;I&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/i&gt; (J. Watson 521).  

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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55726&quot;&gt;Allen, Gay Wilson. &lt;em&gt;The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman&lt;/em&gt;. New York: MacMillan, 1955.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Source: Whitman - CW 5:21&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/59846&quot;&gt;Watson, J. W. &quot;Notes and Comments: How Artemus Ward Became a Great Lecturer.&quot; &lt;em&gt;North American Review&lt;/em&gt;, April 1, 1889, 521-522.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55784&quot;&gt;Whitman, Walt. &quot;Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.&quot; In &lt;em&gt;Complete Writings of Walt Whitman&lt;/em&gt;, edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel. New York: Putnam, 1902.&lt;/a&gt;
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