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Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WALT WHITMAN By William Roscoe Thayer

impressed you most was his face, with its fresh, pink skin, as of a child, and the flowing beard, white

His hair and beard are long and very white.

I shall long remember him with his white fleece, pink complexion, and friendliness.

So Walt's loafing around the White House was not wholly unremunerated.

several of the other pilots mentioned there—John Cole, pilot of the Union, who was a pilot still; George White

, Luther Smith, and Bill White, who died suddenly and alone at his post, in the very chair in which I

His great head seen almost in profile, with its lofty and rounded dome, his long white hair and beard

O'Connor—the widow of Whitman's brilliant friends William O'Connor—had also been spending a few days

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist, in this way.

One day William O'Connor and I were coming along and we met Gurowski.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and beard, and he coughs 'ugh! ugh!

After leaving her I met Horace by appointment and we called on Talcott Williams at the Press office.

Frank Williams and we four." W. "And what did you do?" I said we had had dinner and talked, etc. W.

William Hawley Smith Our transcription is based on a photocopy of an original issue.

The only things that stood out vividly were the white pillow, and the placid face encircled with snowy

This, with its white wolfskin, surmounted the pile like a throne.

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg—at first sight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse", or Kirkwood, was the third of fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

Philadelphia on those warm evenings) sitting out on the doorsteps—Whitman in the midst, in an armchair, his white

One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

cut according to his own fancy shockingly contrary to the very stiff and prim usage of the time, his white

as we faced the opposite bank of the stream, for a long distance it was broadly bordered in creamy white

His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.

He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar

, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.

twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white

year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

and delicate, a complexion of florid and trans-parent pink,—its hue being heightened by the snowy whiteness

The floor is partly uncarpeted, and the furniture is of the simplest; his bed, covered by a white counterpane

against draughts, he had wrapped a shawl of an Oriental pattern around his shoulders, and with his white

on his way without coat, vest, or suspenders, distinguished from afar by the glimpse of a spotless white

I went to him once with William M. Salter.

He likes William Legget's formula, that "the world is governed too much."

Harned, Francis Howard Williams, Horace L. Traubel, Harrison S. Morris, Talcott Williams, John H.

Mitchell, William Reeder, Daniel Gongaker, Geoffrey Buckwalter, William Ingram, Carl Edelheim, G.W.

Williams ( F.

Williams .— Mr.

—Talcott Williams—Williams! Whitman .— Get up, Talcott—show yourself!

and beloved among actors; for many of the famous figures of the American stage have known it, and William

William T.

Passing under some arc-lights in the street, on our way back from the theatre, he remarked: "This white

A most scathing letter from William Douglas O'Connor was published, consigning Mr.

Probably the most intimate and devoted of Whitman's younger friends in Boston was William Sloane Kennedy

vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar and long white

the sporting event to sit in admiration of a clump of green trees that outlined themselves against a white

"How the white background sets off the many shades of the green leaves!"

, and this the poet has always been, that the "Whit" may either be the Saxon "wit" or "wisdom" or "white

" in the sense of his being a "white" man, but that the essence of the whole name lies in the last syllable

William H. Garrison . Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

transparent haze of the warm after- afternoon noon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy in contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard.

Williams— It has become almost fashion to say that Walt Whitman lacks form, and that his method of expressing

among a very few, and was only beginning to make its way into England, chiefly owing to the help of William

heavy-lidded firm blue eyes, which had a steadfast and dreamy regard; a short thick grey beard almost white

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I look where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin, and draw near.

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

It was far more primitive and ancient then my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

sunshine, the trees of Central park, opposite our door, for a background, a baby boy in his arms, his white

Rushing through intervening doors and passages, I found Walt Whitman standing ashy white, and the huge

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

spot near the Market Street Ferry, where he can see the boats coming in and enjoy the sight of the white

Francis Howard Williams of Germantown wrote me the other day something that pleased me very much.

Whitman sadly, that William D. O'Connor of the Treasury Department is dead?

The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

Shipley, William M. Singerly and L. Clark Davis.

The half light from the window fell upon his brown face and long white beard, and flowing white hair,

Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

The white beard—so singularly clear and pure and silken in aspect and texture makes nobly venerable the

The arched eyebrows are also white, like bows of driven snow.

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

saturnine-looking business man named Houston—at least to me he seemed what I say—was in the handsome white

and soft, almost roseate-hued face, with the tired but still affectionate eyes, all framed in the white

the cold ground with forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd veiled in your old white

Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

empty, and the frame of which has lacked the picturesque, kindly face, with its background of flowing white

It's like beauty; like a handsome person; I've seen 'em them : Negroes, Indians, white, yellow, men,

women, children, babies, short, tall, well, sick, long-haired, short-haired, white-haired, red-haired

A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

"I have sometimes felt a little vexed that the good William should have failed to see anything in the

Tipping back in his chair in an easy manner, while he pushed his white locks back from his brow, the

unfortunate polar bear is always present, which is strangely in keeping with his long-flowing, silky white

back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

afternoon, just come in from his drive—a rather infirm but fine-looking old man, with a long, venerable white

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic