The Vault at Pfaff's
Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1984.
Type
book
Genre
history
biography
Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet
People Mentioned in this Work
Beach, Juliette [pages: 314]
Bloom, Nathaniel [pages: 325]
Clapp, Henry [pages: 263,310,314,322,325]
Clapp edited the Saturday Press until it ran out of money.
Howells, William [pages: 313-314]
Howells met Whitman on his August 1860 trip to New York.
Menken, Adah [pages: 322]
Saunders, Charlie [pages: 325]
Zweig writes that, "In the evenings" during 1860 and 1861, Whitman "was mostly at Pfaff's with the crowd of drinkers he would soon be writing to from Washington: Hugo Fritch, Nat Bloom, Charlie Saunders, and others" (325).
Whitman, Walt [pages: 313-314]
Howells met Whitman on his August 1860 trip to New York.