“That miserable wretch, the mayor of this
town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river. He thinks there
is something objectionable in their stripping off their clothes and
jumping into the water.” -Walt Whitman
John
Johnston (and J. W. Wallace), Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-91
(London: George Allen and Unwin, 1917; rpt. 1918) 43, quoting Whitman
on the subject of Camden Wharf. |