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Literary Gossip

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  • Title: Literary Gossip
  • Date: 18 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01194
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 18 September 1857: 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: Thara Michaelis Francesca Boston Jason Stacy Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Literary Gossip." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01194.xml (TEI)
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LITERARY GOSSIP.—

A new work by Mr. J. Parton, entitled “The Life and Times of Aaron Burr,” will be published about the middle of October. A leading object of the work is to narrate the rise of the Democratic Party in this country, and to show the means by which its first victory was won.

The Fourth Volume of the “Abridgement of the Debates in Congress,” by Col. Benton, is ready for publication, and will shortly be issued. The most important feature in the volume is the record of the speeches of Calhoun, Clay, Crawford, John Randolph and other cotemporary statesmen in the early stages of their political career.

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