Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . t too lively for me. ... If ever I start onanother pleasure tour without plenty of money, I hopesome one will kill me. Meanwhile, the idea of giving a show grewstronger in the humorists mind. He saw no futurefor the paper or himself if he stuck to it, and began thepreparation of a piece. He was cheered in pursuinghis purpose by the Bohemian congregation to whichMr. Leland has referred. Henry Clapp, Jr., aroundwhom the wits and writers gathered, was a native ofNantucket, where he was born November 11, 1814,and had been for so
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . t too lively for me. ... If ever I start onanother pleasure tour without plenty of money, I hopesome one will kill me. Meanwhile, the idea of giving a show grewstronger in the humorists mind. He saw no futurefor the paper or himself if he stuck to it, and began thepreparation of a piece. He was cheered in pursuinghis purpose by the Bohemian congregation to whichMr. Leland has referred. Henry Clapp, Jr., aroundwhom the wits and writers gathered, was a native ofNantucket, where he was born November 11, 1814,and had been for some years a figure in the fugitive-literature-making of New York. He had establishedthe Saturday Press in 1858 as a literary journal, with apungent editorial side that took many liberties with thecity and its denizens. He was for a time secretary toAlbert Brisbane, the disciple of Fourier, advocate of asocialistic state, father of the Arthur Brisbane of ourday, a son of his elder years. The meeting-place ofClapps followers was in a cafe kept by Charles Pfaff in [96]. NO. 647 BROADWAY, NEW YORK(Where Pfaffs Bohemia was located) NEW YORK — VANITY FAIR the basement of 647 Broadway, on the west side,near Bleecker Street. Fifteen years later, in the middleseventies, 647 became a loafing-place of my own, as asmall boy, fascinated with books, for here JamesMiller, the publisher, then had a fine book-store, ofwhich I had the run and where I spent many days ofdelight. Pfaffs was, of course, gone. Mr. Miller usedthe basement for storage and packing. Occasionally Idescended to its depths, but, alas, I did not know thishad been Bohemia! I mention it only as another co-incidence in my circling about Artemus Ward. The group which welcomed him included ThomasBailey Aldrich, brought there by his friend WilliamWinter, so long the dramatic critic of the New YorkTribune; Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, the Hasheesh Eater;Charles Dawson Shanly; Edward G. P. Wilkins,dramatic critic of the Herald; Frank Wood, wh
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