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signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white
WORLD take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-eight
and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white
thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white-maned
I am, Yours truly, W T Stead William T. Stead to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1891
W.S.K. yr card just William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [9 January 1891]
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 4 July 1891
Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 30 October 1891
WS Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [3] April 1891
Kennedy see notes Dec 19 1891 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [22 August 1891]
I wrote Idyl of the Lilac other day Tues paper p7 see notes May 22 1891 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt
W S Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1891
We have had a magic ice-spectacle here—trees all candied. see | notes | Jan 20 | 1891 William Sloane
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [18 February 1891]
May 12 '91 see notes May 18 1891 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1891
W.S.K. on cars Mon to 1891 | 13 | Jan | see notes William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 12 January
W.S.K Frau & I have bad colds. see notes May 2d 1891 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1891
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1891
Truly yours, Wm Robinson Wm Robinson (ask'g autograph) William Robinson to Walt Whitman, On or Before
McDowell The Enclosed letter settles many things ahead of elaborate publicity see notes Dec 14 1891 William
them. in the meantime I wish you many happy Birth Days , and you may believe me as ever your friend William
William H. Taylor to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1891
Wm Harrison Riley William H. Riley to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1891
W H Neidlinger see notes Dec 22 1891 William H. Neidlinger to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1891
I hope you will live to great many new years Yours sincerely William Carey 8 December 1891 William Carey
Yours sincerely William Carey 5 December 1891 William Carey to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891
In Glasgow the Exhibition would be largely [William C. Angus] to Walt Whitman, 27 January 1891
William Smith, of Yorkshire, England. Author of "Old Yorkshire," and other interesting works.
surrounding cloud that will not free my soul. 3 In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd
wheat, every grain from its shroud in the dark-brown fields uprisen, Passing the apple-tree blows of white
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them, I saw the debris
On another side is the bed with white coverlid and woollen blankets.
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William T. Stead, 6 January 1891
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7 July 1891
—write often as convenient God bless you & Frau & my Boston friends— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:585.
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 5 May 1891
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 30 April 1891
times—head, gastric & bladder bad —wet & dark to-day—nights middling fair Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
the invisible wind is mainly the same—all this—Keep all this for your own uses— W W Walt Whitman to William
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 26 February [1891]
printed "Ship Ahoy" & have not rec'd any answer — best respects to frau Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 22 September 1891
take medicine—am sitting here at present in my chair by window—warm weather— W W Walt Whitman to William
horrible hot spell (sudden change)—am sitting here by window as usual— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
badly, but getting along better than you w'd think— Love to you & frau — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
[WW also mentioned Arthur Stedman. ] Walt W Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 17 January 1891
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 March 1891
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 February 1891
Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 13 January 1891
fully —is well—I see James Redpath is dead in NY—Y'r letter rec'd — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
See William White's article in The American Book Collector, XI (May, 1961), 30–31, where Wood's second
Fox has not sent yet — 1819–92 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 22 September 1891
In "The Colonel, at Home, in Sonoma County," (Overland, 17 [February, 1891], 200–208), Laura Lyon White