Hyman quotes Kerr: "the Mercury's editor, Robert Henry Newell, detested Whitman's poetry, but loved [Adah] Menken, and she was able to beguile the editor into running her tribute" (59).
Born November 13th, 1833 in Maryland, Edwin Booth had an affinity for the acting world; he was named after the actors Edwin Forrest and Thomas Flynn, and his father, Junius, was a British actor who