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Little is known about Charles H. Russell outside of his affiliation with what was known as the "Fred Gray Association," a group of men whom Ed Folsom and Ken Price characterize as "a loose confederation of young men who seemed anxious to explore new possibilities of male-male affection" (Re-Scripting 62). From Walt Whitman’s correspondence “we can deduce that they were young men, that they drank and caroused together at Pfaff’s and elsewhere” (E. Miller, “Introduction” 11). By the 1870s, according to Whitman, Russell had "grown rich" and invited Whitman to dine with him in "a big house on Fifth avenue" (CW 2:108-09).

References & Biographical Resources

Holloway, Emory. Walt Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative. New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. [more about this work]

Whitman asks for news of him and his address in his March 19, 1863, letter to Bloom and Gray. [pages: 204]

Miller, Edwin Haviland. "Introduction." The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: Volume I, 1842-1867. Ed. Edwin Haviland Miller. New York: New York University Press, 1961. 1-18. [more about this work]

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Whitman, Walt. Letter to Hugo Fritsch. 1863. 158-160. [more about this work]

Whitman, Walt. Letter to Hugo Fritsch. 1863. 158-160. [more about this work]

Whitman, Walt. Letter to Nathaniel Bloom. 1863. 141-143. [more about this work]