Stephens, William Editor. &lt;p&gt;William Allan Stephens was a co-founder of &lt;i&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/i&gt;. Henry Clapp&amp;rsquo;s obituary mentions that &amp;quot;when the &lt;i&gt;Saturday Press&lt;/i&gt; went the way of all journals that are too smart to live, Mr. Clapp, with Mr. Stevens [sic] and others, started the best imitation of &lt;i&gt;Punch&lt;/i&gt; that we have had in this country-- &lt;i&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/i&gt;. Around this nucleus gathered the circle so widely known as &amp;rsquo;The Bohemians,&amp;rsquo; of whom Mr. Clapp was the head and exponent&amp;quot; (&amp;ldquo;Obituary&amp;rdquo; 7). Stephens, as editor of &lt;i&gt;Vanity Fair&lt;/i&gt;, was closely linked to the happenings at Pfaff&amp;rsquo;s because many of the bohemians contributed regularly to the magazine, and Pfaffian Frank Wood was also an editor at the magazine (C. Leland 234). Under Stephen&amp;#39;s direction, &lt;em&gt;Vanity Fair &lt;/em&gt;was a fairly conservative publication, demonstrating a traditional embrace of racial stereotypes, a hostility for abolition, and an unwillingness to endorse the Republican Party (Scholnick, 29, 33, 36). Stephen&amp;#39;s political and racial conservativism set him at odds with one of the magazine&amp;#39;s editors, Charles Godfrey Leland. Unable to reconcile thier policial differences, Leland left &lt;em&gt;Vanity Fair &lt;/em&gt;after just nine months and Stephen&amp;#39;s hired the more politically likeminded Artimus Ward to replace him. (Scholnick, 33)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/57886&quot;&gt;Leland, Charles Godfrey. &lt;em&gt;Memoirs&lt;/em&gt;. New York: D. Appleton &amp;amp; Co., 1893.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/55769&quot;&gt;&quot;Obituary: Henry Clapp.&quot; &lt;em&gt;The New-York Times&lt;/em&gt;, April 11, 1875, 7.&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;/node/60698&quot;&gt;Scholnick, Robert. &quot;The Fate of Humor in a Time of Civil and Cold War: &amp;lt;cite&amp;gt;Vanity Fair&amp;lt;/cite&amp;gt; and Race.&quot; &lt;em&gt;Studies in American Humor&lt;/em&gt; 3, no. 10 (2003): 21-42.&lt;/a&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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