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William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1888

  • Date: April 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Last night I saw Bronson Howard's play—Henrietta—Robson & Crane chief actors.

A very useful play—satire on Wall Street.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1888

  • Date: August 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

A Reminiscence of New York Plays and Acting Fifty Years Ago," appeared in November Boughs (1888), along

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11–12 May 1889

  • Date: May 11–12, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous plays

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [3] June 1889

  • Date: June [3], 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

O'Connor attempted to defend Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Baconian argument—his theory that Shakespeare's plays

idea Donnelly wrote about in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, February 1891

  • Date: February, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1891

  • Date: January 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

He was the author of numerous plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [After 25 November 1890]

  • Date: [After November 25, 1890]
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Peter Pangloss was a character in the play The Heir at Law (1797) by George Colman (the Younger), and

Both roles were played by the nineteenth-century actor Joseph Jefferson.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1890

  • Date: June 19, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

We are going tonight to a children's play (dramatic opera) down at town hall—tickets given me by our

dramatic critic on Transcript=Jenks —I'll say a word abt the play.

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

  • Date: October 12, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
Text:

in Philadelphia for the beneficient effects wrought by crisp air, blue skies, endlessly fascinating play

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 12 April 1868

  • Date: April 12, 1868
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Perhaps I ought to apologize for saying so much to you about a matter I know plays but the smallest part

William M. Evarts to Orville Hickman Browning, 26 February 1869

  • Date: February 26, 1869
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

matter of the suspended entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter

William H. McFarland to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1863

  • Date: November 11, 1863
  • Creator(s): William H. McFarland
Text:

it is estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played

William Douglas O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1886

  • Date: August 17, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 May 1882

  • Date: May 29, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

I think John will be delighted with my sword-play.

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

  • Date: August 28, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

I have been much played out this summer, especially the last month.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 August 1882

  • Date: August 19, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

have not again written him, being quite satisfied with letting him know what I thought of his fair-play

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1888

  • Date: August 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

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

  • Date: July 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888

  • Date: July 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

He is certainly the winter of my discontent mentioned by Lord Bacon in his play of Richard III.

Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1888

  • Date: January 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 2 October 1884

  • Date: October 2, 1884
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

She was known for her remarkable ability to inhabit classical roles (in plays by Voltaire, Corneille,

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 May 1886

  • Date: May 25, 1886
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

Elegancies, was the text that was often cited by Baconians as evidence that Bacon was the author of the plays

figures of speech in Bacon to Shakespeare, argued for Bacon as the author behind Shakespeare's famous plays

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 14 April 1888

  • Date: April 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Text:

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the play following the

Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1888

  • Date: May 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 31 October 1868

  • Date: October 31, 1868
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

Thompson (1839 or 1840–1911), commonly known as "Snacks" after an amateur role he had once acted in a play

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

of the family in which Edward boarded after his mother's death, Edward sat silently the entire day playing

his family (again, though May 1873) far exceed in number those to any family member: forty-five to Peter

entry_25.html That Walt began his revision earlier is also suggested in his October 9, 1868 letter to Peter

October 9, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle.

William Michael Rossetti's expurgated London edition, Poems by Walt Whitman (Hotten, 1868), may have played

Walter M. Rew to Walt Whitman, [1890–1892]

  • Date: 1890–1892; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walter M. Rew | Unknown author
Text:

These plays are: (1) The Troubador—who nurses wounded heroes during the war of the Rebellion (2).

J. Hubley Ashton to James M. Carlisle, 17 October 1866

  • Date: October 17, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

Sir: Before pronouncing on the petition of Peter Targarona "for pardon, & remission of forfeiture," the

Matthew F. Pleasants to D. W. Middleton, 17 October 1866

  • Date: October 17, 1866
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Connolly, &c. "    "   Peter Ernest Brulatoure, & Hypolite Nores, & Francis Laforde.

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Courts, the latter being a species of power incident to the Legislative power of the United States. 1 Peters

Canter , 1 Peters, 542.

Matthew F. Pleasants to John Peters, 9 December 1867

  • Date: December 9, 1867
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Peters, House of Representatives.

Pleasants to John Peters, 9 December 1867

Matthew F. Pleasants to John Coburn, 11 June 1868

  • Date: June 11, 1868
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

General ad interim directs me to say that your letter of the 10th instant, relative to a claim of Peter

W. F. Peddrick to L. L. Lewis, 1 December 1868

  • Date: December 1, 1868
  • Creator(s): W. F. Peddrick | Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter Rodes, requesting the Attorney General to enter an appearance for Mr.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William W. Belknap, 7 April 1870

  • Date: April 7, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Territorial authorities is called to the case of Dobbins, vs . the Commissioners of Erie County, 16 Peters

Amos T. Akerman to Thomas M. Peters, 28 December 1871

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Akerman, Amos T. | Walt Whitman
Text:

Peters, Moulton, Ala.

Peters, 28 December 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 16 March 1871

  • Date: March 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 13th instant, in reference to the U.S. military land at Point Peter

Amos T. Akerman to Peter M. Dox, 24 April 1871

  • Date: April 24, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter M. Dox, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

Akerman to Peter M. Dox, 24 April 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 22 August 1871

  • Date: August 22, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

honor to inform you that the District Attorney for Nebraska reports that no such persons as Swift, Peters

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 13 September 1871

  • Date: September 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

Military land at Point Peter, Georgia, I have the honor to enclose the certified copy of a deed from

Peter lands. Geo.

Benjamin Helm Bristow to E. Peshine Smith, 10 October 1871

  • Date: October 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

Sir: I enclose herewith the account of Peter R. Carll, Esq.

Amos T. Akerman to George S. Boutwell, 14 December 1871

  • Date: December 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

letter of the 12th isntant enclosing the letters of Major Poe, of the Light House Engineers, and of Peter

W. A. Field to J. A. Peters, 27 June 1870

  • Date: June 27, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

Peters, House of Representatives.

Peters, 27 June 1870

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to George S. Boutwell, 6 July 1869

  • Date: July 6, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

United States, 13 Peters, 486; Perots United States, 1 Pet. C.

Amos T. Akerman to P. R. Carll, 10 November 1871

  • Date: November 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Shipman, under date of 8th instant, desires that "eleven (11) volumes of Peters' Reports, and seventeen

Amos T. Akerman to A. B. Maynard, 14 December 1871

  • Date: December 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Poe to the Light House Board, and of Peter Brown, Saginaw Bay Light House Keeper, to Major Poe, in relation

John M. Binckley to Ulysses S. Grant, 15 August 1867

  • Date: August 15, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

States a good and valid Title in fee to said Lot. 2; That the proposed conveyance of Lot 64, from Peter

Wright, to which reference is made in a Deed of said Lot from Henry Thalimer to the said Peter, dated

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William T. Sherman, 14 April 1870

  • Date: April 14, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney for Dakota Territory, asking that Peter Holt, late a private in the 13th infantry, and now a

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 March [1874]

  • Date: March 17, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 March [1874]

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

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