Walt Whitman and Ellen Eyre

The pen name of a woman who wrote Whitman a love letter that was delivered to Pfaff's on Tuesday, March 25, 1862. Eyre may have been Ellen Grey, an actress who may have known Whitman in Brooklyn before beginning her career in New York. Miller speculates that she met Whitman at Pfaff's at some point after her marriage and the "Ellen Eyre" letter was a playful invitation to visit her at her home.

A driver of the Fifth Ave. stage; he would have been acquainted with Ellen Grey. Whitman notes in one entry in a notebook that Sweeney tended to "talk very little."