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See John Duff, History of Public Health in New York City, 1625–1866 , Volume 1 (New York: Russell Sage
Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 1–
" (March 30, 1842) and " Scenes of Last Night " (April 1, 1842).
See John Duff, History of Public Health in New York City, 1625–1866 , Volume 1 (New York: Russell Sage
later call it, in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as a work of serial fiction in eight installments on June 1–
attributed to Whitman, appears on the same page as the first installment of "The Half-Breed" on June 1,
" (March 30, 1842) and Scenes of Last Night " (April 1, 1842). its being written for the mass , though
extracted from the novel and reprinted as a separate short story titled "The Unrelenting" in the February 1,
Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 1–
Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 1–