Walt Whitman, Editor at the New-York Atlas

With an editorial staff of around three or four at any given time (the number of editorial staff present at the paper's commencement and in 1861) and a publishing run of over twenty years, a list like Herrick's appears to be a fairly accurate record of most of those who worked in an editorial capacity at the Atlas. [...]he seems to have treated publication in the local press as a convenient medium for experimenting with new ideas and formats, some of which were pursued with a degree of gumption that goes beyond mere column-filling subsistence work. The issue containing the last installment of "Manly Health" includes an extended puff that employs the editorial "we" to promote "Mose Velsor" and ensure the series survives the vicissitudes of a weekly paper.11 This editorial puff outs "Mose Velsor" as a pseudonym and offers insider information about the composition of the series, connecting the origins of Velsor's diet and exercise advice to the training regimens of highly experienced athletes. "Mose Velsor," in the course of his articles, well indicates that the conditions called health and disease are not trivial effects, produced by temporary causes, but the results of long trains of processes and influences.