Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in the journals. For example: Fight. All instances of the use of the word fight will show up on the results page.
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Searches are not case sensitive. For example: george will come up with the same results as George.
Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: "This white pudding we all esteem".
Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
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Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860
.— Yours Truly William W. Thayer Please direct your letter to me Boston Post Office.
William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862
William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1861
Sent copy to the Senator, and there was a prompt responce response of the White Plume Plumed Knight,
about the same reason that the crows display in pecking to death one of their kind happening to have a white
If he had been ill-dressed and low-minded, it is hardly probable that the beloved poet, William Cullen
William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1880
Your Friend Wm Taylor Wm Taylor's letter Woodstown NJ Dec 18 '77 William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 18 December
I have the honor to be Your obedient servant William T. Stead William T.
I am, Yours truly, W T Stead William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1891
I am, Yours truly, W T Stead 1890 William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 10 December 1890
Walt Whitman, Esq. of New York William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1865
William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1865
William T. Otto, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 11 May 1865
told you Well i must [close] My letter by bidding you good by write soon armory Square hospittle William
not—I yet retain your Photograph with care —Hoping to hear from you soon I am very Truly Your Friend William
William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1873
to me My Children Sends their Love to you Now My Dear Friend I Hope you will write Soon Good Bye William
Stansberry My Parents Came From New Jersey Not Far From Camden they was Born William Stansberry to Walt
this place My wife sends her Best wishes with mine Write soon Wm Stansbery Wm Stansberry July '75 William
to you I love you as a brother yours truly Wm Stansberry excuse my bad writing I am nerves nervous William
WS Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [On or After 12 July 1889]
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, February 1891
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, August 1885
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, After 28 May 1891
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [After 25 November 1890]
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 September 1888
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1890
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1889
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1888
W.S.K. yr card just William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [9 January 1891]
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 April 1887
With the full-perfumed love of my soul, I close, W S Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman,
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 8 June 1888
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 8 April 1889
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1888
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 7 January 1884
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1890
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1889
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1890
leisure to speak of, & have acquired a curious distaste for writing—at present. affec'y W S Kennedy William
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1889
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 November 1889
Affectionately [William Sloane Kennedy] William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1889]
Kennedy's letter | Feb. 5 '86 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 February 1886
Williams & Everetts this evening after work, & passed a few rapt moments in looking at the bust of you
He seems to have acted on Sidney M's suggestion abt about Williams & Everett's being a better place than
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1887
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [4 September 1888]
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 4 July 1891
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 4 August 1889
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1890
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 30 October 1891
Kennedy see notes Sept 1, 1888 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 30 August 1888
White's pitiful parody of L of G. in my face & thot he had floord me, he said he ahd heard that Edwin
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 October 1889
Richard Grant White (1822–1885) was a New York writer, journalist, and Shakespeare scholar.
White served as an editor with various papers, including the New York Courier and Enquirer and the New
Interested in many fields, White published one novel, The Fate of Mansfield Humphries (1884), a philological
White also edited the anthology, Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War, that includes
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1890
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 May 1890