Science and the Race Problem

"An Unusually Active Market for Calamus": Whitman, Vanity Fair, and the Fate of Humor in a Time of War, 1860-1863

“…For instance, John Godfrey Saxe published several risque poems-for which he accepted a dollar each-but only on the condition, as he wrote to Leland, that his name not be associated with the magazine. 36 One of these, "Conjurgium non Conjugium," appeared on August 4, 1860:…”