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Bibliographic Information
Holloway, Emory. "Whitman Pursued." American Literature. 1955. 1-11.
Type: Journal ; Genre: essay
People Mentioned in this Work
- Beach, Juliette H. [pages: 10]
- An admirer of Whitman. Beach wrote many unpublished letters to Whitman and is a possible writer of the "Ellen Eyre" letter.
- Clapp, Henry Jr. [pages: 8]
- Clare, Ada [pages: 8-10]
- An actress and a Pfaff's regular. Clare's address appears twice in Whitman's notebooks. Clare also wrote for the New York Leader. She hosted Bohemian gatherings in her home at which Whitman was a likely attendee.
Her birth name was Jane McElhinney; she was a cousin of Paul Hamilton Hayne and the grandniece of Senator Robert Hayne.
Clare was twenty-six when the "Ellen Eyre" letter was written. She is a possible but unlikely candidate for the author of this letter. - Eyre, Ellen [pages: 6-11]
- The name given by author of mysterious letter Whitman received at Pfaff's.
- Sweeney, Frank [pages: 7]
- Frank Sweeney is described as a bus driver (possibly) to whom Whitman told the "whole" Ellen Eyre story.
- Whitman, Walt [pages: 1-11]
- Holloway discusses a letter Whitman received at Pfaff's signed by "Ellen Eyre," whose real identity is unknown.
