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"Sartaroe"

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  • Title: "Sartaroe"
  • Date: 24 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00945
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 24 March 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 Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. ""Sartaroe"." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00945.xml (TEI)
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"SARTAROE."—

We have received from Messrs. Peterson of Philadelphia, a marked paper, containing a puff of "Sartaroe," the new work written by a Mr. Maitland,1 and of which a letter from Washington Irving has been forged in recommendation. We not space to insert the puff, but beg all of our readers who admire and approve forgery and rascality (and none else) to buy this work "Sartaroe," and thus reward the concoctor of the forgery, who doubtless has an interest in its sale.

Notes:

1. James Alexander Maitland (1827#8211;1883) was a British-born novelist who was associated with a number of newspapers in the United States, including the New-York Dispatch during the 1850s. [back]

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