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Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
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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.

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Bibliography of Copies

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William F.

William E.

William Michael Rossetti W. B.

William F. Channing William D. O'Connor Ellen M.

William B.

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

White 1825 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 23-25, 37, 41, 45, 47-48, 76-77 loc.03449 Thompson, Benjamin F.

Whitman appends this clipping on William Cowper's poetry to a commentary on British poets.

Campbell, William W.

Bohn Cowper, William The poetical works of William Cowper, with a biographical notice by H.F.

Shaw Consuelo William H.

How would it do

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
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city—ma femme—O never forgotten by me Maine Fish— Codfish mackarel mackerel herring salmon lumber) white

one third of all the U.S. ship building Lumbering— Merrimac state New Hampshire "granite state" the white

Carolina, extending into Virginia—10x30 miles full of pine, juniper & cypress trees, with white & red

Pedee —the Santee the Edisto —the Palmetto—40 feet high (the "Cabbage Palm) —the laurel, with large white

sand-hills of the middle-Country, like agitated waves—the pleasant table-lands beyond Arkansas Rivers—the White

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Based on the binder's records, William White argues that the total edition consisted of 795 copies, an

Williams & Co. to Mr. B. E. Perry.

Blodgett, Harold, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

White, William, ed. . 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Whitman, Walt.

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
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rebel against their owners, setting fire to a building near Broadway, and threatening to kill any whites

Three beads of black and six of white were equivalent, among the English, to a penny, and among the Dutch

Here the aboriginal money circulated,—small polished shells, some white, some black, strung on the sinews

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Walter, William T. "Long Island." In , edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, 3–14.

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
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resided in Stratford in 1612—and before & afterward His sister Joan, (5 years younger than he) married William

Hart, hatter,—they called their first child "William."

John Ward's Diary. made a final effort with firmness on the final si g nature "By me William Shakespeare

Oct. 25, 1856 a paper read by William Henry Smith, author of "Was Lord Bacon the author of Shakespeare's

These notes drew from Collier's Works of William Shakespeare, first published in 1844.

Henry 8th

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
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Louis 13th 1643 Louis 14th—(aged—(6 years) 1715 Louis 15th England 1685—James 2d 1689—" Revolution" —William

& Mary 1694 William W J ames 2d died at St.

and Mary, the attempt of James in Ireland and of his adherents in Scotland—William soon eventually puts

'91 '92 and '93 '9 and '94— from '90 to ' 96 98— —the death of the queen—the active movements of William

in Literature) —death of William, (March 8, 1702—accession of Queen Anne—the Earl of Marlborough— the

The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol

  • Date: After 1872; July to December, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Robert Buchanan
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seemed close to the earth, and very gray, and the waves of the sea, where they did not break into white

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

The Italian bedfellow kisses and hugs, and fills the house with white towels.

The youth float on their backs, their white bellies soak up the sun; they do not wonder who clasps them

I neither suffer nor despair despite my exhaustion, Beautiful and white are the people surrounding me

I depart like the air, shake my white hair towards the setting sun, Throw my flesh into eddies, let it

Hall Walt Whitman in Europe Today Roger Asselineau and William White Detroit Wayne State University Press

Robert Chambers

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ludwig Herrig | Robert Chambers
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islands, contains about four hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom only about thirty-seven thousand are white

less populous, the full amount being in each case divided in the same proportions between blacks and whites

A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist [unsigned in original]
Text:

what is unsuitable is also unintelligible to her; and, if no dark shadow from without be cast on the white

In a letter on July 19, 1869, William Michael Rossetti had urged Gilchrist to "suppress" her name; see

The Letters of William Michael Rossetti , ed.

writing positively of it in his December 9, 1869 letter to Rossetti and in his May 11, 1870 letter to William

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Early Draft Advertisements

  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

"Swayne" was William Whiting Swayne of Ireland (ca. 1825–1883), a bookseller and, later, a publisher

Whitman in Brazil

  • Creator(s): Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
Text:

that swing and bloom; in your dining room, close to the tiled stove that smells of pine resin and white

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white

class or of his own intellectual caste, of his own region or territorial area, or of his own race of white-skinned

Perhaps his long white hair made him seem paternal or maternal in the eyes of fatally wounded young men

Introduction to Whitman's Annotations and Marginalia

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

Coors Endowed Chair, US Air Force Academy William H.

Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory."

Sherman, William. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England.

Emerson and Whitman

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

WILLIAM DOUGLAS O’CONNOR. Washington, D.C. , June 12, 1882. Emerson and Whitman

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

By the time he became acquainted with Whitman's poetry through William Rossetti's British edition of

It was facilitated by Whitman's friends, probably under the aegis of William D.

The translators were an unlikely team—Thomas William Rolleston (1857–1920) was an Irish nationalist and

He is also a prominent translator of American dramatists (among them Williams, Miller, and Wilder).

And four voices under the high white hats reply: "Et c'est bon!" . . .

Whitman futur, ou l'avenir à venir: "Poets to Come" in French Translation

  • Creator(s): Éric Athenot | Blake Bronson-Bartlett
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.: "one does not wear white shoes after labor day") in English.

"Leaving it to you to prove and define": "Poets to Come" and Whitman's German Translators

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig | Vanessa Steinroetter
Text:

educator, scholar, and philologist Karl Knortz (1841–1918) and the politicized man of letters Thomas William

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

WILLIAM DOUGLAS O’CONNOR Washington, D.C. , May 19, 1882. Suppressing Walt Whitman.

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

William Parry reports that in Baku poems by Whitman were distributed as morale builders to oil workers

"I am both white and black, and belong to every caste—mine is every faith—I am a farmer, gentleman, mechanic

Traubel was fifteen years old when he began to chat occasionally with the white-bearded old poet on the

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