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more became a Brooklyn resident.

Lains Brooklyn Directory of that date contains the following entry.

"Whitman, Walters Jr. Printing office and store. 106 Myrtle Ave"

(also lived in 1855 at 142 Skillman Street near Myrtle Ave.)

"The enlarged edition of Leaves of Grass was beginning to command attention from the public and in the spring of 1856 at which time Whitman was living in Ryerson Street near Myrtle Ave. he was visited by A. Broson Alcott and Henry D. Thoreau."

(see page 50 for letter by Alcott)

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Vol 4 p20 Eagle Dec 24, 1911

"About 1839-40 Myrtle Ave was graded and the hill at Fort Greene was being dug through. The hill each side of Myrtle Ave was some eight or ten feet higher than the street. Just north of Myrtle Ave and near Canton Street was a graveyard."

(Armbrustes says 1835)

Vol4 p5 Eagle Sep 10, 1911

"Public school No 5 was at the corners of Myrtle Ave and Gold Street. It was just a gloomy spot for timid pedestrians. It was at this place that the young son of Capt Dickerson was attacked at 9 o'clock one evening by a man who attempted to kidnap him placing plaster over his mouth, but the boy broke away and went home with the plaster clinging to his skin much of which was torn away in removing it."