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night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy troops of white‑maned
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 7 January 1884
polished mirror of the sand, how deftly the wind took each wave and tossed back from it a helmet-crest of white
implicated in the general tissue of the whole,—but what wd would you say to omitting the fourth line—white-maned
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1884
William J. Sewell to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1884
William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1884
William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 2 October 1884
Bryant In the deepest William C. Bryant to Walt Whitman, [16 October 1884]
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 10 August 1884
William, I wonder if you or Charles Eldridge couldn't help me to something there from the Medical Bureau—summaries
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 29 September 1884
Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 January 1884
—Best wishes to you, wife, children & (unknown) friends there— Walt Whitman to William C.
Edward Dowden, Temple Road Winstead Rathmine's, Dublin Ireland Talcott Williams, Daily Press cor 7th
Thursday P M Oct: 9 '84 My dear Williams I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper
usual—only very lame— Walt Whitman Have the proof read carefully by copy Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams
Williams.
Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 14 December 1884
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem
writing to you I enclose the rec't for the Red Jacket bit — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 12 pm My dear Williams After I sent your note in answer yesterday—& reading
Whitman Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 12 October 1884
Walt Whitman I enclose my last screed in the Critic Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 11 October 1884
would take This side the earliest convenient opportunity to give my excuses & love to Mr and Mrs: Williams
Rolleston, William D. O'Connor.] Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, [9 January 1884]
William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:327.
say I am fatter & more red-faced than ever)—I spent my Christmas over in Germantown at Mr and Mrs Williams's
Yours always William Rolleston. early in March '84 | Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus Thomas W. H.
Williams Martha B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1884
spasmic geyser‑loops ascending to the skies, ap— pearing appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white
Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse
On the reverse of the manuscript is a note by William Sloane Kennedy. Camden - Phila
William White, 2:337).