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I remember, as I passed the White House with him one evening, the startled feeling with which I saw a

Open this other book of his, "William Shakespeare," a book with only one grave fault, the omission of

Harlan would consider Walt Whitman white as purity beside him.

Sick and wounded, officers and privates, the black soldiers as well as the white, the teamsters, the

William Douglas O'Connor's "The Good Gray Poet" first appeared as a free-standing pamphlet (New York:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

I step softly over to him, and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the 1st Maine cavalry

Crossing the fields in summer he would gather a great bunch of dandelion blossoms, and red and white

For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in

the coffin—I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin."

His wife, Emily, a lovely blonde, dressed in white and cherry ribbons for the evening, who was sitting

smiled like an old lion flattered by his cubs, showing his teeth, every one of the thirty-two still white

John, white as death, was there, with chewing mouth and dusk-lit eyes.

But still the unquenchable embers light the sick white ashes.

A fine glittering house, laid on sodden whites and brutified blacks, squashed out of their manhood.

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

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

William D.

The man wears a broad-brim white hat.

Harlan would consider Walt Whitman white as purity beside him.

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

After the dilettanteindelicacies of William H.

Gilchrist,1884 . .11^ William Blake.

I WILLIAM BLAKE.

[William] Jan.

William M.

Etty, William, R.

FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS: Germantown.

Sloane Kennedy, 58 William M.

Cockrill, 66 William Dean Howells, 62 JuliusChambers, 67 John G.Whittier, 62 George William Curtis, 67

William M. Salter: Chicago, May 21, 1889.

William C. Gannett: Hinsdale, III.,May 20, 1889.

NIMMO KING WILLIAM STRAND 14 STREET, MDCCCXCI1I 3331 S>2 AUG 2 i. 921411 PREFACE This hardly needs an

figure,six feet high, costumed in or blue grey, with drab hat, broad shirt collar, fulland with grey-white

And here I may recall President Lincoln's remark on seeing Whitman of House :" from the windows the White

William O'Connor, of Douglas Washington, who had learned to appreciate Walt as a friend, and to admire

.^ BY WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY " WholoveaMan seehis here." may imagJ.R.LOWELL.

William Wesselhoeft. The result of of two months' generous work by Mr.

Channing gives himself almost entirely up to William's care and treatment.

William's blood boiled at the covert malignancy dis- in his Bazar played by [T.W.]

Don't know of [my grandmother Amy] Williams having any blood never heard ab't that.

Widener, 10.00 William M. Singerly, 10.00 W. L.Elkins, 10.00 J.M.

WILLIAM C.BONAPARTE WYSE. MANOR OF STJOHN S,ATERFORD,Auguet11,879.

Stoddart, Francis Howard Williams, Dr. R. M. Bucke, Talcott Williams, T. B.

Brinton, Francis Howard Williams, Thomas B. Earned, and Dr. R.

Williams then read from the Zend-Avesta and Plato.

The grown impression he early made upon such men as Emerson, Thoreau, William O Connor, Mr.

"Fihim better than last With pretty well, looking year. 54 WHITMAN his light-gray suit, and white

W. drives briskly, and salutes every person we meet, little and black and male and female. big, white

The upper over The eyelids droop considerably the eyeballs. which are hidden by the thick, white lips

XXVII William Rossetti his has a certain says language ultimate quality.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THESAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 189I BY HENRY WILLIAMS

Edinburgh PREFACE \ AY firstacquaintance with Whitman's writings (William Rossetti's edition of the Poems

,always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg— at firstsight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse," or Kirkwood, was the third or fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

mea- sured yet irregular roll of Whitman's lines to the onset of waves along a shore — now creeping white

The full are lips partly hidden by the thick,white moustache.

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist,in thisway.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and and he ' ! !

Talcott Press Williams, Newspaper Office,Philadelphia.

Alma, 136 O'Connor, William D., 45, 77, 100, ; Mrs.

William D.

William M.

Translation by William E.

Emperor William I, 186. George William, 16.

William D., 98.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Walling, William English. Whitman and Traubel . 1916. New York: Haskell House, 1969.

(William Sloane Kennedy, for example, wrote that Whitman would "probably have desired to have him privately

William Douglas O'Connor photograph of William Douglas O'Connor Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor

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

O'Connor, William Douglas. "The Carpenter: A Christmas Story."

"O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]," by Deshae E.

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

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

That's what Talcott Williams says. He was here today with Mrs. Williams."

"Some kind words from my friend William Carey there—William Carey.

William mentions you.

Affectionately,William D.

Talcott Williams over today.

The volume was the result of some correspondence between William and Mrs. Pott.

William resented the Emperor piece. Why?

William is in the best sense an orator—is eminently passionate, pictorial, electric.

Williams is also a book man—profoundly so—the most bookish of all my friends, I believe (to use the word

This letter he handed to me with the remark: "It is one of the most splendid of all William's splendid

Then: "William could not do even the comparatively innocent things without the air, the authority, of

I said to W.: "I suppose William is right about Emerson.

That's what Talcott Williams says. He was here today with Mrs. Williams."

What I put into that little piece I got chiefly from Philbrick, a clerk at the White House, who was always

I did meet Hay in Washington during the war—talked with him frequently at the White House.

He brought a letter of introduction from Talcott Williams.

"William has his own troubles." I wrote to Burroughs for W. yesterday.

"Some kind words from my friend William Carey there—William Carey.

William O'Connor under the same excitation would blow fiercely and leave his mark on the landscape."

men here—the scene is a curious one—the ward is perhaps 120 or 30 feet long—the cots each have their white

"They are a part of me—I am a part of them—William, Nellie.

He smiled quietly: "When William gets going he is more exciting than an alarm of fire. Read it."

Did you notice William's fling at Comstock? What a foolish question—of course you noticed it.

W. thought the "Good Morrow" incident in the letter, "most characteristic of William—most beautiful:

just like him in every way," adding: "You know William never stopped to invent, to manufacture, such

William might now go to his journey's end uninterrupted."

I believe William knows a good lot more than Donnelly about the subject—draws deeper water."

No reply as yet from William Carey.

Said Frank Williams was over today.

William R.

That was the one William Swinton most affected—most read. You know about William Swinton?

—found it white? White quartz, eh? Very pretty? No inscription? No monument of any kind?"

William elicited a noble reply.

"The white ones have no flavor.

"There's William—William O'Connor—he's alive, too: God bless William! And your mother? You, too?

"John and William." "John and William who?" "O'Connor—Burroughs.

But William?—never! never!"

Bucke said: "William does not boost himself enough: he helps everybody but himself."

"What do you see ahead for William?" W. asked.

W. said: "William may not be optimistic but he is courageous: he is grit itself: typically Irish in the

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

exclaimed W.: "Who can say such things like William?

and poor William today knows better than ever how plausible his singular phantasm was!"]

yes: William must have his fling!"]

["Like the Irishman," said W.: "I'm wid you, William!

I remember what poor William says: he says I always like my idiot pictures best!"

William turned again to Nellie.

William of Stratford is too strong for me!"

I induced William to talk about W. as he was in Washington.

Bucke and William and I were face to face. William looked up at us.

William said: "Well." Bucke said: "William!" I said: "Love always!" No more.

they were: I may say, John has changed towards himself—that I notice—but he has not changed towards William

—that is William: the sympathetic is the center of his being—the explanation of it all: the fire of his

W. explained: "That depression is not William: he defies all that: it is more likely to be Nellie: she

Bucke argues that William should go to some institution, where he can be better taken care of by able-bodied

"That is William: it sounds like him: it has his sangfroid, his nonchalance."

Even William—God Bless him!

Had to tell him about William's room, too.

Bucke wanted to know if K. had met William.

"No: I'm wrong: it was from Marshall Williams: portrait and book: he sent both: Williams wishes them

to bring William physically closer to me."

Again: "Hugo is one of William's enthusiasms: he often used to talk of it."

Bucke said: ""William is subject to crazy enthusiasms." I said to W. "Were they crazy?"

W. laughed: "Maurice is wrong: Maurice himself is more likely to do that thing than William: it is odd

for such a characterization: quite the contrary: William always has the best of reasons for whatever

Great are Talcott Williams and Thomas Donaldson, and blessed be their names.

I said: "William says he'd like to write these days, but can't.

Again: "William thinks he cannot write: that settles the question for William: it is not a physiological—no

But he thought I should write oftener to William.

William, of Stratford—that it closes so much of truth out.

William of what?" and after I explained, laughed and said: "I see!

Well, Horace, having pleased William and Nellie, I may rest on my oars."

William was much pleased, not only with the gift, but with the book—type, print, all.

"That's what William used to say: he would sometimes say to me: 'Walt, you let off the God damnedest

I said to W. : "I innocently asked William if he knew Mrs.

"That is like William."

mine do now: to you, to William, to all of them!"]

essential change: John is not so outright, so unreserved, so irrevocable, so without exceptions, as William

William told me of someone in Washington who said to him: 'I'm willing to have you call the damn book

Then again: "But William? what of William?

Then of O'Connor again: "Poor William: it is dreadful news indeed!"

"Bucke says we make too much of our fears concerning William."

Bucke shook his head over William.

B. then said gravely: "We must not forget, Walt, that William is living right on the edge of the grave—that

W. again: "Surely, surely: William started out auspiciously, dynamically: never dissipated in any way

I interrupted—"You said that of the white man the other day."

Have you had any news from William?" W.'s color not so bad, but he looked tired.I did not stay.

read it to myself: you are in a hurry: take it along—read it by the way: notice particularly what William

"William claimed that he had a heap to do with that," I said.

W. said he was anxious to have Bucke get some reply from William's doctor.

slavery was really labor slavery—wage slavery: an upper-class attitude towards the laborer generally, white

William has recovered his mental balance, and is once more rational; as he says, the "hallucinations"

W. said: "Every hour of every day William dwells with me here."

I said: "William was hungry for details of your life here."

poor William!" he cried. Then: "I send him a little word almost every day."

I said: "William says you have never taken proper care of yourself."

William is gaining but is very weak and not back to the place he was before the attack.

Reflectively: "No one can know—poor William, he knows!

"One of them for William," he said.

"Read it and send it direct to William or bring it back so I can do so." Any news from Washington?

["William was right: the Doctor had no right to do it!"]

["That's so, William! and a good many other virtues, too!"]

it was indeed all that William says and more!

He was never so unerring as William!"]I write with a dreadful pen and bad ink.

s letters was one from Gleeson White (England). No one knew him.

A London woman's paper asked White to do the job. It was an article in a series—Writers Oversea.

I said: "I know: William spoke of them: Nelly showed me a pile of them together on his desk: he says

rather think not: he does not read the Greek itself; of course this does not mean that he's ignorant: William

W. asked me to repeat what William had said of him in Washington.

anything new from William?" He said: "No—but that reminds me."

this four or five days ago: each day I have forgotten to give it to you: it's an old letter from William

["A little like death to me, too, William, since I was away! Oh those sacred evenings!"]

["It was not so written, William: but other things, perhaps better things, were written!"]

["And so it is, William—so it must be always: though there never was any Pathfinder—never were many things