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  • Literary Manuscripts 142

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Search : William White
Section : Literary Manuscripts

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[You bards of ages hence]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm; On two sections of white

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—he was called "Doctor"; wore a white cravat; was deaf, tall, apparently rheumatic, and slept most of

women

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

Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

With husky‑haughty lips, O Sea!

  • Date: Late 1883 or early 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy troops of white‑maned

Whitman's pre-Leaves of Grass Marginalia on British Writers

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:754.

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

rebel against their owners, setting fire to a building near Broadway, and threatening to kill any whites

Three beads of black and six of white were equivalent, among the English, to a penny, and among the Dutch

Here the aboriginal money circulated,—small polished shells, some white, some black, strung on the sinews

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Walter, William T. "Long Island." In , edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, 3–14.

[White Butterflies]

  • Date: 1878–1882
Text:

140ucb.00068xxx.00959Over the glistening bronze brook[White Butterflies]1878–1882prose3 leaveshandwritten

[White Butterflies]

Where the little musk ox

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

life car is drawn on its slip‑noose At dinner on a dish of huckleberries, or rye bread and a round white

[When I heard at the close of]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00080[When I heard at the close of]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white

[What think you I have]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

you I have]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm; On a composite leaf of white

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • Date: After 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry David Thoreau | Unknown
Text:

According to Sir William Jones, "Vyasa, the son of Parasara, has decided 4 that the Veda, with its Angas

Waves in the Vessel's wake

  • Date: About 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hastening waves from afar, smaller on larger, And the far billows reaching up, with their prying looks and white

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

White 1825 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 23-25, 37, 41, 45, 47-48, 76-77 loc.03449 Thompson, Benjamin F.

Whitman appends this clipping on William Cowper's poetry to a commentary on British poets.

Campbell, William W.

Bohn Cowper, William The poetical works of William Cowper, with a biographical notice by H.F.

Shaw Consuelo William H.

[Walt Whitman said lately to one of his interviewers]

  • Date: 1886
Text:

to one of his interviewers]1886prose1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript written by Whitman and sent to William

Veil with their lids, &c

  • Date: about 1870
Text:

The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz

The Vanity and the Glory of Literature

  • Date: After April 1, 1849; April 1849; Date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Rogers
Text:

She was represented veiled in white, holding a sceptre in her left hand, and with her right raised, as

[To the young man]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

To a Cantatrice

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment

[This moment as I sit alone]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00331xxx.00066xxx.00089[This moment as I sit alone]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leafcm; On one leaf of white

This list of one week's

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 16 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sub-marine excavator: William Kennish Brooklyn, N.Y., assignor to Andrew B. Gray, San Diego, Cal.

This journey

  • Date: about 1871–1874 and about 1891
Text:

White" between 1871 and 1874. This journey

[These I, singing in spring]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white

[The trilogy]

  • Date: about 1871
Text:

On the verso of one of the leaves is a letter from William Black seeking Whitman's autograph.

[The ball-room was swept]

  • Date: about 1860
Text:

12tex.00011xxx.00705The Ballroom was swept and the floor white…[The ball-room was swept]about 1860poetry1

leafhandwritten; Three lines of a poem beginning "The ball-room was swept, and the floor white."

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

anticipate the following lines in the preface to the 1855 : "Little or big, learned or unlearned, white

body and lie in the coffin" (1855, p. 72). + The sepulchre Observing the shroud The sepulchre and the white

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

of delight" and "tooth prong") probably contributed to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

Sweet flag

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

the "tooth of delight" and "tooth prong") may relate to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

"Summer Duck" or "Wood Duck" "wood drake" very gay, including in its colors white, red, yellow, green

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Sparkles from the Wheel

  • Date: 1871
Text:

Those who envy or calumniate great men, hate God William Blake[.]"

[Sometimes]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe

  • Date: August 1849 or later; August 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

That kingdom, the creation of the successive Fredericks and Frederick-Williams of the House of Hohen-Zollern

Slavery

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

.— All white working men, South as well as north are or ought to be against them; for the establishment

from the ancles ankles legs of the slave,—if his breast then feel no more the blood whether black or white

seize with violence on what our laws only know, until duly advised different, as peaceful Americans, white

wretched countrymen of mine, born and bred on American soil, his father or grandfather very likely a white

Ship Ahoy!

  • Date: January 2, 1891
Text:

On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to Whitman from William S.

Settlers and Indian Battles

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 22 March 1856; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown | Henry David Thoreau
Text:

How beautiful its clusters of pink and white blossoms are, and how delightfully fragrant!

The squirrel cups vary in color, some being white, others pink, and others still bluish or lilac-colored

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

hundred in all) came over to Massachusetts, in the Mayflower, under the spiritual guidance of Elder William

September 11, 12, 13—1850

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Her father was Major Van Velsor, and her mother's name Naomi Williams.— Capt.

Williams had his wife, her parents, fine old couple, exceedingly generous— I remember them both (my mother's

—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,

Scythia (as Used by the Greeks)

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

Kashmir , or a country farther east, is not easily determined—but it seems that, accordingly, the white

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

scene in the woods on

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

Hospital Note Book Walt Whitman This prose narrative (probably describing the battle of White Oak Swamp

scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine) after the battle of White

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Annotations Text:

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem (Sail out for good Eidólon yacht) and trial

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

  • Date: 1890 or later; 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.F. Volney
Text:

Next to these, that second more numerous group, with white banners intersected with crosses, are the

Robert Southey

  • Date: After 1847; February 1851; September 25, 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

Robert Southey, working out his own original nature honestly, is entitled to as much respect as William

Robert Chambers

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ludwig Herrig | Robert Chambers
Text:

islands, contains about four hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom only about thirty-seven thousand are white

less populous, the full amount being in each case divided in the same proportions between blacks and whites

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

had been battle flags Pioneers with axes on shoulders the crowds the perfect day—the clear sky—the white

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
Text:

opportunity to get a foothold in Brooklyn, and in this year they entered into negotiations with one William

The deed of conveyance is dated the 12th day of October, 1694, and is from William Morris to the Corporation

This patent was to Sarah Rapelje, daughter of George Jansen De Rapelje, the first white settler on Long

Sarah twenty morgen (forty acres) of land at the Waale-Boght, in consideration of her being the first white

William Smith appear for them.

Progenitors

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

Priests!

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

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

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