FAQ
In addition to the specific sources listed in the Notes, the following works were also consulted.
- Brasher, Thomas. Whitman as Editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970)
- Brooklyn Directory for 1833–34 (Brooklyn: Nichols & Delaree, 1833)
- Brooklyn Directory for 1834–35 (Brooklyn: Spooner & Bigelow, 1834)
- Brooklyn Directory for 1835–36 (Brooklyn: Lewis Nichols, 1835)
- Catlin, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians. . . , vol. 1. (London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1876).
- Description de l'égypte; ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée francaise. . . , 2nd ed., vol. 1. (Paris: Imprimerie de C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1821-1830).
- Greenspan, Ezra. Walt Whitman and the American Reader. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
- History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair, February 22, 1864. (Brooklyn: The Union Steam Presses, 1864)
- Kaplan, Justin. Walt Whitman: A Life. (New York: Bantam, 1980)
- Krieg, Joann P. A Whitman Chronology. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998)
- Littlejohn, Duncan. Records of the Brooklyn Institute, 1823 to 1873; with occasional explanatory remarks, list of directors and officers, and some reminiscences of prominent individuals in connection therewith. . . . (Brooklyn: Typescript, 1879)
- Miller, James E. Jr. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959)
- Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1995)
- Richman, Jeffrey. Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure. (Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery, 1998)
- Rosellini, Ippolito. Monumenti Dell'Egitto e Della Nubia. . . , vol. 3. (Pisa: Presso N. Capurro, 1832–1844).
- Sill, Geoffrey M. and Roberta K. Tarbell, eds. Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992)
- Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: including a Fac-simile autobiography, variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves. (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900)
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