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[Eleven of the employees]

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  • Title: [Eleven of the employees]
  • Date: 11 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00867
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 11 October 1858: 2. 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. "[Eleven of the employees]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00867.xml (TEI)
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☞Eleven of the employees of Gen. Webb1 of the Courier and Enquirer2 recently celebrated the 21st anniversary of the employment of one of them in that office. The term of their united connexion with the establishment amounted to 273 years. Gen. Webb must be a kind and considerate employer to retain the same services for so long a period.

Notes:

1. General James Watson Webb (1802–1884) was an American diplomat and newspaper publisher. [back]

2. The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer was a daily newspaper, published by M. M. Noah and edited by former Whig politician James Watson Webb. [back]

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