"Whitman saw beautiful boys everywhere and preserved their likenesses in his notebooks, like pressed flowers. Shively speculates that some of the entries in Whitman’s notebooks and daybooks were actually coded sex diaries:
Dec 28 [1861] — Saturday night Mike Ellis — wandering at the cor of Lexington av. & 32d st. — took him home to 150 37th street, — 4th story back room — bitter cold night
Wm Culver, boy in bath, aged 18 (gone to California ’56).
Dan’l Spencer . . . somewhat feminine — 5TH av (44) (May 29th) — told me he had never been in a fight and did not drink at all . . . slept with me Sept 3d
Wm Miller 8th st (has powder slightly in his face.)
David Wilson — night of Oct. 11, ’62, walking up from Middagh — slept with me . . . is about 19
October 9, 1863, Jerry Taylor, (NJ.) of 2d dist reg’t slept with me last night weather soft, cool enough, warm enough, heavenly.
Hugh Harrop boy 17 fresh Irish wool sorter
Wm Clayton boy 13 or 14 on the cars nights — (gets out at Stevens & 2d) April ’81
Robt Wolf, boy of 10 or 12 rough at the ferry lives cor 4th & Market
Clement — — boy Stevens st cars — night
(Jeremy Lybarger'in Bostonreview'de
yayınlanan yazısından http://bostonreview.net/literature-culture/jeremy-lybarger-walt-whitmans-boys)
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