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Frank Cowan to Walt Whitman, 17 February 1892

  • Date: February 17, 1892
  • Creator(s): Frank Cowan
Annotations Text:

Cowan is quoting lines spoken by the character of Bottom from William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891

  • Date: December 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

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

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

Giacosa —the Shakspear of Italy—whose Play on Wed. night at the Standard Theater Sarah Bernhard Bernhardt

Annotations Text:

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) starred in stage productions of popular French plays in

She had roles in plays by Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas and played males roles, including Shakespeare's

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1891

  • Date: November 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 November 1891

  • Date: November 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Note-book (Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1886), which argued that Sir Francis Bacon had written the plays

writer, pseudo-scientist and Shakespeare critic, who argued that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays

A favorite theory was that Francis Bacon, the English philosopher, actually wrote the plays and left

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1891

  • Date: November 14, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

Shakespeare and Francis Bacon here, he is referencing the Baconian theory—the idea that Shakespeare's plays

Baconian theorist, who authored Hamlet's Note-book, in which he argued that Bacon had authored the play

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12–14 November 1891

  • Date: November 12–14, 1891; November 13, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Ignatius Donnelly will lecture on "The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays" at the Academy of Music, on

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 10 November 1891

  • Date: November 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7–8 November 1891

  • Date: November 7–8, 1891; November 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1891

  • Date: October 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

He was the author of numerous plays (including Richard III and Henry VIII), sonnets, and narrative poems

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1891

  • Date: October 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

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

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 26 October 1891

  • Date: October 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

see me, bro't brought a big bunch of fall wild flowers—the big stout Dutch woman is out in front playing

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1891

  • Date: October 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The wooden pillow had "the feathers the wrong way up": the tapping & pounding was "playing the piano

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1891

  • Date: October 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

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

Henry VIII is one of Shakespeare's history plays, based on the life of Henry VIII, who was the King of

Shakepeare's play was published in the First Folio of 1623.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

  • Date: October 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

—I liked too to get out into the "bush"—chipmunks calling & playing about me—one little fellow descending

a tree in front of me & playing about for fully 5 minutes before running off amid the rustling leaves

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 22 September [1891]

  • Date: September 22, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1891

  • Date: September 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1891

  • Date: September 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

As we approached along the avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining over head

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

The Asylum band was out in front of the house and they played quite a while to welcome me home.

Horace L. Traubel to Walt Whitman, 10 June 1891

  • Date: June 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Annotations Text:

King Edward VII, Gordon-Cumming was confronted and pressured to sign a document that he would not play

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1891

  • Date: June 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

The birds sang & twittered joyously in the swaying & rustling trees overhead & a gentle breeze played

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 May 1891

  • Date: May 23, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to King Lear, the titular character of William Shakespeare's play King Lear (1606

In the play, Lear abdicates his throne and loses his former glory, becoming insane and impoverished.

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1891

  • Date: May 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Annotations Text:

The play was given its first performance on May 7, 1886, in the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, by

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

childhood & it was with a swelling heart that I again looked upon the dear old spots where we used to play

Raymond Blathwayt to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1891

  • Date: April 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Raymond Blathwayt
Annotations Text:

He was also a very successful dramatist; he wrote numerous plays that became West End and Broadway productions

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1891

  • Date: April 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

is referencing Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play

Mary A. Jordan to Walt Whitman, 8 March 1891

  • Date: March 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Mary A. Jordan
Text:

Probably you do not, nor that you used to be very good to them, playing "tag" and marbles with them—now

Margrave Kenyon to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1891

  • Date: February 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Margrave Kenyon
Text:

powers far greater than Irving's, if you can see special merit & a new great teaching in the Norse play

As publishers do not care to buy the play, I cannot get into public notice.

Annotations Text:

The full name of this play is Madansema, Slave of Love; re Tolstoi, a counter-song to anti-marriage,

Clara Jecks (1854–1951) was an English actress and singer who often played the roles of either young

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

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.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1891

  • Date: January 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

thousands on the Town Hall Square—the great central open space in the town—to listen to the band which plays

midnight & upon the last stroke of 12 everybody wishes everybody else a "Happy New Year," the band then playing

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 December 1890

  • Date: December 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

heavy-headed, congested—good fire—no mail for me to-day—Warren has gone out sleighing—I hear the boys playing

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1890

  • Date: November 24, 1890
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
Annotations Text:

He played numerous parts during his career, including taking on a number of Shakespearean roles, sometimes

November 1890, Booth and Barrett, as part of their acclaimed 1889–1890 tour, performed in several plays

there; the plays included Francesca da Rimini, George Henry Boker's 1855 tragedy based on Dante, as

well as Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1839 historical play Richelieu, along with Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 November 1890

  • Date: November 8, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to me once in N Y, anent old French Revo)—A bad head and belly ache as I end this—the children are playing

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1890

  • Date: October 21, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

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

be one of the founders of the German Romantic Movement, and his translations of sixteen Shakespeare plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 18 September 1890

  • Date: September 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian realist writer of novels, plays, short stories and

Robert M. Sillard to Walt Whitman, 9 September 1890

  • Date: September 9, 1890
  • Creator(s): Robert M. Sillard
Text:

I should very much wish to know from you what stage play and what actor and actress you you remember

Which of Shakesperes Shakespeare's great plays do you find the most entertaing entertaining reading?

Annotations Text:

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

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.

Emory S. Foster to Walt Whitman, 30 May 1890

  • Date: May 30, 1890
  • Creator(s): Emory S. Foster
Annotations Text:

Foster's poem quotes, echoes, and plays upon Whitman's epigraph poem for the 1876 and 1891–92 editions

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1890

  • Date: May 4, 1890
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1890

  • Date: February 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 22 January 1890

  • Date: January 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

theatre as an actor and director (she directed and acted in the production of one of Ernest Rhys's plays

Ada H. Spaulding to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1890

  • Date: January 4, 1890
  • Creator(s): Ada H. Spaulding
Text:

Please have something that you want—and play that I sent it, instead of this unbeautiful Money Order.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 December 1889

  • Date: December 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

along the top of the Heath, (called the Spaniards Road, & passing an old inn where Skittles are still played

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 November 1889

  • Date: November 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Ignatius Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 September 1889

  • Date: September 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

The bookThe Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays, authored by the politician

Donnelly was well known for his belief that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon, an

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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

Robert Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 13 August 1889

  • Date: August 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Robert Pearsall Smith
Text:

He writes very bright plays for us & then acts them for us with his sisters.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 July 1889

  • Date: July 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 20 July 1889

  • Date: July 20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

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