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  • Literary Manuscripts 142

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Search : William White
Section : Literary Manuscripts

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['76 White Horse]

  • Date: 1876
Text:

154ucb.00055xxx.00811Cloudy and Coolish['76 White Horse]1876prose2 leaveshandwritten; A Draft fragment

–1883) as part of Autumn Side-Bits, which was later collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). ['76 White

9th av.

  • Date: between 1854 and 1860
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press

noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

[A leaf for hand-in-hand]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00098[A leaf for hand-in-hand]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

Africa (The Equator

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

miles the Congo, (1000 miles or more, emptying into the Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white

black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River , away down in Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile

After all, not to create only

  • Date: about 1871
Text:

A note at the top of the manuscript, written by Whitman's friend William Sloane Kennedy, indicates that

After the Dazzle of Day

  • Date: 1887 or 1888
Text:

In the lower right-hand corner is the notation: "For Francis Howard Williams, May 1896, Traubel."

After the dazzle of Day

  • Date: 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman sent to pub. in Herald early in Feb. '88 For Francis Howard Williams | May 1896 | Traubel

airscud

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

deliciously aching, / Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous . . . . quivering jelly of love . . . white

Ascent of Mount Popocatapetl

  • Date: After March 23, 1854; 23 March 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Gerard Noel | Anonymous
Text:

Mexico, and looking down on the twin volcano (I forget the Mexican name, but in English it means the White

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

but all through the land The names of the flowers. lilacs roses early lilies the colors, purple & white

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
Text:

.00048Autobiographical DataBetween 1848 and 1856prosepoetry10 leaveshandwritten; Photostats, made for William

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

Calamus-Leaves

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

50-51uva.00310xxx.00066xxx.00083Calamus-Leaves1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On white wove

Camden - Phila

  • Date: 1884
Text:

On the reverse of the manuscript is a note by William Sloane Kennedy. Camden - Phila

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Johnston, William Douglas O'Connor, and Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel.; This catalog includes item-level

He first read Whitman's poetry in William M.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | Bucke, R.M. | Burroughs, John
Text:

The correspondence includes two longer runs, one to William O' Connor and the other to his wife, Ellen

William O'Connor, author of The Good Gray Poet (1866), was one of Whitman's closest friends until an

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Liverpool Central Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

The Liverpool Central Library; William Brown St.; Liverpool, L38EW; England

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Other correspondents include Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Thomas Biggs Harned, William Sloane Kennedy, James

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

These letters shed particular light on Whitman's relationship with William Michael Rossetti, the Gilchrist

The collection also includes correspondence with her children and Whitman's 1869 letter to Michael William

Literary correspondents include John Burroughs, William Sloane Kennedy, Bernard O'Dowd, Richard Maurice

Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel, Henry Bryan Binns, Mary Mapes Dodge, William Dean Howells

, William Douglass O'Connor, and John Addington Symonds.

Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

  • Date: about 1887 or 1888
Text:

; Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter (cancelled by a diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams

Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

  • Date: About 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

On the back of this manuscript is an undated letter to Whitman from Talcott Williams.

City of my walks and joys

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

A Clear Midnight

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

Williams" dated December 2, 1880. The poem was first published in 1881. A Clear Midnight

Copy of the OConnor preface

  • Date: 1890
Text:

O'Connor, pub'd posthumously in 1891, which appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), and in William Douglas

cottonwood

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cottonwood—mulberry— chickadee—large brown water-dog— —black-snake—garter snake— —vinegar-plums—persimmon— — wh white-blossom

place with a pistol and killed himself, and I came that way and stumbled upon him locust, birch with white

reckon think mind less you very are a good manure —but that I do not smell— —I smell the your beautiful white

Annotations Text:

and "And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, / I smell the white

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White pine abounds in the northern part, and white and red oak on the coast.

Roger Williams, First Settler of Rhode Island.

Both of these monuments are of white marble.

Along the White River, the St.

The name of William B.

Dates referring to China

  • Date: Around June 23, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Silk is plenty— they have a kind of white coarse stuff of grass, that makes, for foreigners very good

The Dead Emperor

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

The poem mourns the death of Emperor William I of Germany on 9 March 1888, and the Herald of 10 March

A Defence of the Christian Doctrines of the Society of Friends

  • Date: After 1838; 1825
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

William Penn, in his "Testimony to the truth as held by the people called Quakers,"written in 1698, says

"— Elias Hicks' letter to William B.

The next quotation, on page 72 of the pamphlet, is taken from William Penn's "Guide Mistaken, and Temporizing

To which distinction of persons William Penn replies– "As for his strange distinction of the Deity, which

[Here William Penn introduces M 298 inference, I say, is as irrational, as it would be for any to conclude

Diary in Canada

  • Date: 1880
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks, noted a relationship between material

distinctness every syllable the flounderer

  • Date: 1840s or early 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

every syllable the flounderer spoke, up to his hips in the snow, and blinded by the cutting sharp white

crystals making that made the air densely one opaque white.

Do I not prove myself

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

[Earth]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

Edmund Spenser: born about 1553—died 1599.

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

unworldly, abstracted, contemplative in the highest degree—loving high themes— princeliness, purity, white

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

[Fa]bles, traditions

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol

  • Date: After 1872; July to December, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Robert Buchanan
Text:

seemed close to the earth, and very gray, and the waves of the sea, where they did not break into white

from Hookers command

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

men badly burnt by explosion of caissons &c —wrote a number of letters for Ohio & Indiana m en Wm Williams

Armory May 12 William Williams co F. 27th Indiana wounded seriously in shoulder— a he lay naked to the

Williams Lafayette Tippecanoe co. Indiana Noah Laing bed 36 Ward I Mrs. Edwin Burt.

[Going back far enough]

  • Date: 1886
Text:

.00830[Going back far enough]1886prose1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript written by Whitman and sent to William

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

He is a precursor

  • Date: 1847 or later; May 1847; date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Hogarth | Anonymous
Text:

speak of them than if we had read more, as hands that are but a little soiled are fitter to lay on white

"Once," says Swedenborg, "Mary, the mother of God, passed by, and appeared clothed in white raiment."

Henry 8th

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

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

Here is a list of the immediate family

  • Date: about 1883
Text:

It consists of draft versions of the heading for William Douglas O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet (1866)

[Here the frailest leaves of me]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00095xxx.00105[Here the frailest leaves of me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
Text:

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.

The History of Long Island

  • Date: After 1842; 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Benjamin F. Thompson
Text:

market a surplus of beef, pork, hay and grain, REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS. 247 1st congress, 1789, William

The horizon's edge

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "There Was a Child Went Forth": "And grass, and white

and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, / ... / And the appletrees

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