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Good News!

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  • Title: Good News!
  • Date: 29 September 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01439
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 29 September 1856: 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: Tara Ballard Kevin McMullen Samantha Gilmore Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Good News!." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01439.xml (TEI)
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GOOD NEWS!—

Dr. E. H. DIXON, the fearless and accomplished editor of the Scalpel, announces that after the 1st of January next, his publication will be issued monthly in quarto form, at $1 per year, or 10 cents a number.1 This most pleasing intelligence will be hailed with eminent satisfaction by all who desire to know how to live. Dr. D. has during the last eight years expended $16,000 in the Scalpel, and received in return $14,000. Notwithstanding this deficiency, which he has met from the income of his professional labors his enterprise is about to reach us in a more acceptable form. In taking up the quarterly we have often exclaimed, "Why cannot we have such food as this more frequently!" The wish will soon be gratified; and we hope that the Scalpel may take the place of all electioneering documents. No female should acknowledge its absence from her table—no household can be fully enlightened without its aid.

Notes:

1. The Scalpel was published quarterly in New York by editor and doctor Edward H. Dixon (1808—1880). [back]

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