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White, William (1910–1995)

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

Donald D.KummingsWhite, William (1910–1995)White, William (1910–1995)From the 1950s to the 1990s, William

White was a strong presence in literary studies in general and in Whitman studies in particular.

Housman, Sir William Osler, Ernest Hemingway, and Nathanael West.

"William White, 1910–1995." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1995): 205–208.

White, William (1910–1995)

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 23 November 1871

  • Date: November 23, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William G. Hodges Quartermaster's Department, and his clerk, David V.

prosecution of said Whiting for compliicity with Hodges in the fraud.

Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas to prosecute Whiting. The U.S.

Whiting.

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 23 November 1871

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 26 July [1873]

  • Date: July 26, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

condition feel it best to stay here—(Nelly, I don't feel as well as when you used to come there to White's

the ferry boat, & sail to & fro across the Delaware, occasionally—I had seen in the newspapers of William's

Annotations Text:

Whitman stayed at the Whites' from March 1, 1871, until he left Washington.

White, a chiropodist, acknowledged for his wife receipt of $28 "on account . . . for rent of room etc

Whitman gave up one room at the Whites' on June 10, 1873: "Kept the other at $2.50 a month" (The Library

letter to Peter Doyle, in which Whitman left instructions for the delivery of his boxes from the Whites

Walt Whitman to William C. Skinner, 7 February 1885

  • Date: February 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William C. Skinner, 7 February 1885

Annotations Text:

William White, 3 vols. [1978], 2:351).

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Whiting to engage his services as special counsel for the Government, in the controversies with

William Whiting as spe. counsel see Let B'k H p.727 The following are responsible for particular readings

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 4 April 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William Whiting, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Whiting, Boston, Mass.

Whiting retained see Ex B'k. A. p. 58.

Akerman to William Whiting, 4 April 1871

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. Abdy-Williams, 7 January 1885

  • Date: January 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Abdy-Williams, 7 January 1885

Annotations Text:

Sonnenchein | Time monthly office | White Hart Street Paternoster Square | London EC England.

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

One Williams College copy has a blank copyright page; two other copies, now at the University of Virginia

White notes by way of context that "the scrapbook was used by Whitman to keep clippings from newspapers

In research for a short article describing the discovery, William White determined that the document

White also identified the "Mr.

White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First American Literature 28.4 (1957): 516–17.

William M. Evarts to Luther C. White, 19 August 1868

  • Date: August 19, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

White, Esq. U. S. Marshal, Van Buren, Arkansas.

White, U. S.

White and designate Joseph S. C.

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar William

White, 19 August 1868

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1885

  • Date: March 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

White a going over, of which I wrote you some time ago.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1885

Annotations Text:

White," a literary critic and scholar who argued that Shakespeare was not a pseudonym of Francis Bacon

Ellen M. Abdy-Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

  • Date: March 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Abdy-Williams
Text:

ABDY-WILLIAMS. MONTHLY, PRICE ONE SHILLING. EDITORIAL ROOM. W.

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., WHITE HART STREET, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.

Abdy Williams Walt Whitman Rejected MSS. cannot be returned unless cover in Postage Stamps accompanies

EMA Williams Ellen M. Abdy-Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

Smith devoted a chapter of Unforgotten Years to his remembrances of Whitman; however, William White has

version of the Smiths' arrangements for this visit differs from accounts found in sources cited by White

White, William. "Logan Pearsall Smith on Walt Whitman: A Correction and Some Unpublished Letters."

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

[med Cophósis]

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Diary in Canada

  • Date: 1880
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks, noted a relationship between material

Periodicals Devoted to Whitman

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

White also oversaw the production of several special issues and publications, including Walt Whitman

1982 Wayne State University Press abruptly withdrew its support of the Review, and White and Feinberg

White until it was discontinued after the 1985 issue.

In Japan, William L.

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1992.White, William.

"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

For publication information see William White and G.R. Thompson; see also Thomas L.

Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 67 (1973): 64–65.White, William.

Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

  • Creator(s): Gibson, Brent L.
Text:

Brent L.GibsonHartshorne, William (1775–1859)Hartshorne, William (1775–1859) William Hartshorne grew

White, William. "A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

9th av.

  • Date: between 1854 and 1860
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press

noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 October 1889

  • Date: October 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

White's pitiful parody of L of G. in my face & thot he had floord me, he said he ahd heard that Edwin

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 October 1889

Annotations Text:

Richard Grant White (1822–1885) was a New York writer, journalist, and Shakespeare scholar.

White served as an editor with various papers, including the New York Courier and Enquirer and the New

Interested in many fields, White published one novel, The Fate of Mansfield Humphries (1884), a philological

White also edited the anthology, Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War, that includes

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
Text:

TedWidmerLeggett, William L. (1801–1839)Leggett, William L. (1801–1839) William Leggett, poet and journalist

"William Leggett." United States Magazine and Democratic Review 6 (1839): 17–28. Leggett, William.

A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett. Ed. Theodore Sedgwick, Jr.

White. Indianapolis: Liberty, 1984. Meyers, Marvin.

Leggett, William L. (1801–1839)

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

"Summer Duck" or "Wood Duck" "wood drake" very gay, including in its colors white, red, yellow, green

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 28 May 1882

  • Date: May 28, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden Sunday May 28 '82 Dear William O'Connor I like the big letter of May 25 the more I have read it—I

William, I submit to you whether it wouldnt wouldn't be well, in your reply to quote all this , as extracted

from a late letter to you from me — Walt Whitman to William D.

Annotations Text:

John White Chadwick (1840–1904), who termed himself a radical Unitarian, was the pastor of the Second

Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, [9 January 1884]

  • Date: January 9, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Rolleston, William D. O'Connor.] Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, [9 January 1884]

Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:327.

William M. Evarts to Andrew Johnson, 18 August 1868

  • Date: August 18, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

White, Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, imputing to him misconduct in office.

White, and have been impressed with the feeling that a change in the office should be made.

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar William

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Shade —An twenty-five old men old man with rapid gestures—eyes black and flashing like lightning—long white

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 May 1871

  • Date: May 6, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitely, Chief of the secret service, and respectfully request that the authority which he desires for

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 May 1871

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 9 May 1871

  • Date: May 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the receipt of your letter of the 8th inst., inclosing enclosing the pardons of Charles Heydt, and William

Rhode, which I shall pardons received immediately forward to Colonel Whitely at New York.

Racial Attitudes

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George and David Drews
Text:

DrewsHutchinsonRacial AttitudesRacial AttitudesWhitman has commonly been perceived as one of the few white

truth is that Whitman in person largely, though confusedly and idiosyncratically, internalized typical white

nationalist terms, opposing "the great cause of American White Work and Working people" to "the Black

Elsewhere he refers to slave labor as a "black tide" threatening white workingmen.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978. 

Daybooks and Notebooks (1978)

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

also managed the promotion of his own poetry during the same period, kept similar records, which William

New York University volumes, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and edited by William

White, whose notes identify most individuals mentioned in the daybooks, placed primary materials within

Études Anglaises 32 (1979): 106.Charvat, William.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.Zweig, Paul.

William M. Evarts to Hugh McCulloch, 18 August 1868

  • Date: August 18, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

White, suspended. Very respectfully, your obd't serv't, Wm M. Evarts, Attorney General.

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar William

'There Was a Child Went Forth' [1855]

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

observes a colorful array of plant and animal life, including the grass, "early lilacs," the ovoid "white

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. 

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980.

William M. Evarts to Henry C. Caldwell, 19 August 1868

  • Date: August 19, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

White, suspended; and to request you to deliver it to Mr.

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar William

Amos T. Akerman to William Dorsheimer, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

B p. 124 To Hon Wm Whiting—April 4, 1871—see p. 726, seq.

Akerman to William Dorsheimer, 4 April 1871

Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1984)

  • Creator(s): Graham, Rosemary
Text:

White, consists of three volumes.

The third volume edited by White contains the complete text of a diary Whitman kept during a trip to

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White, consists of three volumes.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. The Early Poems and the Fiction. Ed.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Parodies

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Intermediate Geography" (Falk 138).Some parodies were downright mean-spirited, like Richard Grant White's

But mainly White views Whitman as a drunken, disreputable boaster reveling in physical corruption—"Of

White especially takes umbrage at Whitman's vision "Of the beauty of flat-nosed, pock-marked" Africans

White's, is Helen Gray Cone's verse dialogue, "Narcissus in Camden: A Classical Dialogue of the Year

New York: Scribner's, 1922.Zaranka, William, ed. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

Swinton, John (1829–1901)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

Born in Scotland, as was his brother William, he resided there until the family's migration to Canada

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449. Hyman, Martin D.

White, William. "Whitman and John Swinton: Some Unpublished Correspondence."

Long Island Patriot

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

charisma and powerful position, Whitman was more deeply impressed by the Patriot's foreman printer, William

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.White, William.

"A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Walt Whitman to W. Hale White, 25 May 1877

  • Date: May 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hale White, 25 May 1877

Annotations Text:

William Hale White (1831–1913) was a British writer and civil servant who sometimes published under the

In 1880, White wrote a review of Whitman's Two Rivulets titled "The Genius of Walt Whitman."

See the letter from White to Whitman of March 21, 1880.

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)

  • Creator(s): Kozlowski, Alan E.
Text:

His William Blake (1868) includes a favorable comparison of Blake and Whitman, noting their identical

Noting that they both have flaws, Swinburne calls William Blake's work more profound but finds Whitman's

Published in 1887, "Whitmania" is a far cry from the admiration expressed in William Blake.

London: White, 1872. ———. "Whitmania." Fortnightly Review ns 42 (1887): 170–176.

William Blake: A Critical Essay. London: Hotten, 1868. Rpt. in Walt Whitman: The Critical Heritage.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1884

  • Date: February 16, 1884
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

polished mirror of the sand, how deftly the wind took each wave and tossed back from it a helmet-crest of white

implicated in the general tissue of the whole,—but what wd would you say to omitting the fourth line—white-maned

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1884

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 12 April 1888

  • Date: April 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

near sunset—air a little tart)—I am quite immobile & don't get out except by being toted —a bunch of white

lilies is in the window & my bird is singing like a house afire — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1864

  • Date: November 30, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William has a terrible cold just now, & sore throat, but has been very well & vigorous, as hearty as

The Count asks for you every time that he sees William or Charley.

William sees Mr. Swinton sometimes, I have not seen him yet. What about your poems?

William says every day that he is going to write you, & he will soon. How is Ms. Price?

Then lift your white hands, and my arms From harms And troubles the baby will keep.

Africa, Whitman in

  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

Asselineau, Roger, and William White, eds. Walt Whitman in Europe Today.

William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1976. 27. Senhor, Léopold Sédar.

Roger Asselineau and William White. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1972. 33. Smuts, Jan Christian.

Leaves of Grass, Variorum Edition

  • Creator(s): Golden, Arthur
Text:

After a number of delays, William White and Arthur Golden were brought in to complete the textual variorum

New York: Putnam, 1902. 83–255.White, William. "Editions of Leaves of Grass: How Many?"

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1889

  • Date: February 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

see the brilliant star-show; noticed the big cherry tree in the lane splashed all over one side with white

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1889

Walt Whitman to W. Hale White, 6 November 1882

  • Date: November 6, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hale White, 6 November 1882

Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: W Hale White | Park Hill | Carshalton Surrey | England.

White (1831–1913) published under a pseudonym The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881) and Mark Rutherford's

See White's letter to Whitman of October 23, 1882.

According to Kennedy, in The Fight of a Book for the World (1926), 41, White wrote about Whitman in the

""Black and White Slaves.""

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

""Black and White Slaves."" "Black and White Slaves."

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White Slavery," and was created

by a Northern slavery apologist named Edward Williams Clay.

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Annotations Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Vintage Books, 1996), 125–127.; The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.Shurr, William H.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

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