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."

Clare met with Whitman's disapproval when she was not only unconventional but also when she was inconsiderate.

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