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Title: The More the Merrier
Creator: Walt Whitman [unsigned in original]
Date: March 29, 1842
Whitman Archive ID: per.00446
Source: New York Aurora 29 March 1842: [2]. Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue. Original issue held at the Paterson Free Public Library, Paterson, NJ. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This piece is unsigned. However, Whitman was the editor of the Aurora when this editorial was written, and Herbert Bergman identified him as its author in Walt Whitman, The Journalism. Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998). The Whitman Archive editors agree that the style and content of the piece are consistent with other known Whitman writings of this period.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein, Gabrielle K. Engstrom, and Kevin McMullen
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THE MORE THE MERRIER.—
Our Jewish citizens have lately taken quite a fancy to the Aurora. They pay us the compliment of saying, that they consider it the best publication in the city. Were it not that people would cry "tit for tat," we should say what we certainly think, that this good taste is worthy all commendation.