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—Our conversation, too, was a caution to white folks; it consisted principally, as you may imagine, of

pork; believe L.I. sound and the south bay to be the ne plus ultra of creation; and the "gals" wear white

I have written one to Mr Brown and William Devoe and (as Walter said in his last letter) I shall write

Flowers of every description were on some of the tombs, large white roses and red ones too were all along

Among the late improvements of New York, may be particularly mentioned the long-talked-of widening of William

valuable structures, Clinton Hall among the rest; so they thought to draw off some of the travel into William

the houses (in the verg middle of the Jew clothing quarter) in Chatham street, to make the exit of William

was among those who helped save the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington from the burning White

Ex-Commissioner overleaps the mark in his fury, and charges too much on his extensively abused Excellency of the White

At the clothing stores along Maiden Lane, Park Row, and William and Fulton streets, (nor forgetting our

William street it building up from Chatham street where it now opens, inward; the rubbish is not yet

The widening and repaving of William street, has led, (how, I do not know,) to raising the grade of Frankfort

and earth (particular earth) for a revocation of the sentence on the amorous Bishop, and a general white-washing

come before these potent, grave and reverend signors, is that of the admission, on equal terms with whites

Just beyond, glimpses of it appearing through the trees, shows the dirty white of the City Hall; Justice

White, T.

White, who were members of the Irish Directory in New York.

Joseph White was nabbed yesterday for attacking a German, at 1 o'clock in the morning, and robbing him

Edwin Williams, of much fame in "Registers" and statistics, for the office of Register of the county.

While I write, the snow is falling; so softly, so softly, come its pure white flakes!

With their superb white horses—the rims of the dash-boards arching over like the necks of serpents—and

Muchmore, Member Board of Supervisors for Kings County Walt Whitman to William M.

Martha "Mattie" Griffith Browne (d. 1906) was a white abolitionist and suffragist who wrote poetry and

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1: 238–239.

fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged

The Day Book billed itself as "The White Man's Paper" and changed its name to the Caucasian (August 1861

Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

draft.This fragment is written on the verso of a poem manuscript, "The ball-room was swept and the floor white

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861

Just about daylight a white flag was hoisted on the rebel breastworks (as we afterwards found by the

gun  another lay badly wounded  a few feet further in the bushes lay an old man with beard perfectly white

just dying  the top of his head being shot off  a little way from these we met a dozen rebels with a white

Canby had only eight hundred white men and one Reg of Mexicans under the renowned Kit Carson .

Sibley had three thousand men our white men done all the fighting for the Mexicans broke and ran at the

miles farther before they slept and they did  they started off singing the Star spangled banner, Red White

.— Yours Truly William W. Thayer Please direct your letter to me Boston Post Office.

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

A friend of mine, William D.

William H. Seward , | Secretary of State. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

elaborately wrought balustrades, columns, & steps—all of the most beautiful marbles I ever saw, some white

Is William in New York—or where? The article is to be paid for. Walt.

My brother William sailed for Port Royal ten days ago—to be present at the attack on Charleston—if it

guard-house is a nasty, lousy dungeon without light—in it was a nigger with his wrists in manacles, and four white

Tom, you tell the boys of your company there is an old pirate up in Washington, with the white wool growing

a fine house across the way from Hospt No 3, where the Surgn Steward and women stop it has a large white

unted an wee have got the pras of the finest regment in these pats My Capten Skaggs is ded brother william

Jest like a privet and as study as a Jug JC sebrig is fist lutenent B B Jones is a lutenent brother william

Fourteenth st., the cavalry after him—I really think it would be safer for him just now to stop at the White

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

The skirmish was kept up untill about daylight on the morning of the 17th when a white flag was run up

am able to come No more at present Good by answer by return mail from a friend and ever shall be William

told me he was at the regimental hospital at a place called Baltimore Corners not many miles from White

me know what he says about the exstention I will close now good by from a friend and well wishes William

have any thing but a cup of tea & some bread or crackers, (first rate tea though with milk & good white

A pause, the crowd drops away, a white bandage is bound around and under the jaw, the propping pillows

limpsy head falls down, the arms are softly placed by the side, all composed, all still,—and the broad white

Walt Whitman to William S. Davis, 1 October 1863

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

friends if not we ask the favour of you to inquire i suppose John was buried not far from Culpeper William

well father i will close now with giveing yo the address write soon for i long to heer from yo from William

E Vandemark to his father good by William E.

William is well as usual, he is at the office or would send lots of love. Mrs.