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'Where the Drinkers & Laughers Meet': Pfaff's: Whitman's Literary Lair.

Hyman, Martin D. "'Where the Drinkers & Laughers Meet': Pfaff's: Whitman's Literary Lair." Seaport. 26(1991): 56-61.
Type: 
journal
Genre: 
journalism

People Mentioned in this Work

Booth, Edwin [pages:61]

Identified as one of Pfaff's "guests" and referred to as one of the "luminaries of the stage" (61).

Clapp, Henry [pages:58-61]
Clare, Ada [pages:58]
Greeley, Horace [pages:61]

Identified as one of Pfaff's "guests" (61).

Howells, William [pages:58,59]

Identified as a contributor to The Saturday Press.

Jefferson, Joseph [pages:61]

Identified as one of Pfaff's "guests" and referred to as one of the "luminaries of the stage" (61).

Menken, Adah [pages:58-61]
Newell, Robert [pages:59]

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).

O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages:58]
Pfaff, Charles [pages:57,59-61]
Swinton, John [pages:59]

John is identified as a Pfaff's regular (59).

Twain, Mark [pages:58]

Clemens is identified as a contributor to The Saturday Press.

Ward, Artemus [pages:58]
Whitman, Walt [pages:58-61]
Winter, William [pages:61]