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William Harrison Riley William Harrison Riley to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1879
I remain yours Faithfully William Harrison Riley.
William Harrison Riley to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1879
It would be for me the greatest pleasure to be William Harrison Riley to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1879
William H. Kelly to Walt Whitman, 27 August 1879
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Please send me word soon as they reach you & are delivered to Mr R— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978) for February 24, 1879, and that he enclosed
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Torrey Harris, 27 October 1879
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William Black is good, usually, in the respect, though apt to overdo.
Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse
His long, snow-white hair flows down and mingles with his fleecy beard, giving him a venerable expression
Walt Whitman is a man well advanced in years and his snow-white hair and the long white beard which grows
See Lilian Whiting, Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend (1910).
His daughters were Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown and Mary Lesley Ames (both mentioned in Whitman's
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