Free and Lonesome Heart: The Secret of Walt Whitman

Holloway rules out Beach as a candidate for "Ellen Eyre"; although she may have visited Pfaff's Beach did not have a home in the city as "Ellen Eyre" claimed to. Also, the writer's invitation to Whitman to make himself at home at her house would have been an inappropriate gesture from a married society woman who would have been aware of social convention.

Clapp is described as the "King of Bohemia" and Whitman's "avowed champion."

Menken is mentioned as a friend of Ada Clare.

Whitman mentions in a notebook having run into Wilkins at Ada Clare's home.