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Local Items

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  • Title: Local Items
  • Date: 30 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00865
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 30 October 1858: 3. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Samantha Gilmore Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Local Items." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00865.xml (TEI)
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☞There is to be a meeting of the anti-Lecomptonites at Union Hall, cor. of Meserole and Ewen streets, this evening, the speakers for which are announced elsewhere. By the way, it is said that the printing for this meeting was directed by the parties who raised the money to pay for it, to be done at the Times1 office, but some kind friend who took the matter in charge went elsewhere. We should like to know whether this is really the case or not—not that we care a copper about it, for we have as much printing as we can swing through—but we like to know our friends.

Notes:

1. The New-York Times was a leading daily newspaper, then published by Republican Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820–1869) but aiming for a neutral tone of reporting. Whitman contributed a number of writings to the paper. For more information, see also Walter Graffin, "New York Times," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998) and Susan Belasco, The New-York Times. [back]

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