Winter includes this review in one of his scrapbooks from the early 1860s (held at the Folger Shakespeare Library) alongside other articles that he wrote for the Saturday Press at the time, suggesting that he, and not Henry Clapp, is the author.
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Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman spent his childhood and early adulthood amid the sights and sounds of New York City and its environs.
