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Search : William White

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Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1880

  • Date: June 14, 1880
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
Text:

more— the Autograph "Behold this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white

Charles William Dalmon to Walt Whitman, 27 September 1888

  • Date: September 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles William Dalmon
Text:

I am Your's Charles William Dalmon c/o Duggan & Co 34 James Street Liverpool England Charles William

Charlotte St. Clair to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1866

  • Date: April 6, 1866
  • Creator(s): Charlotte St. Clair
Text:

Whitman Sir I rec'd a letter from Mr William of Bascom 242 F Street stating that our testimony did not

Clement Hugh Hill to William McMichael, 14 October 1871

  • Date: October 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Clement Hugh Hill | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Clement Hugh Hill to William

Clement Hugh Hill to William Darlington, 6 January 1871

  • Date: January 6, 1871
  • Creator(s): Clement Hugh Hill | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Clement Hugh Hill to William

Clement Hugh Hill to Hendricks, Howe, & Hendricks, 19 May 1871

  • Date: May 19, 1871
  • Creator(s): Clement Hugh Hill | Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams, has been received, and the transcript placed on file in the clerk's office of the Supreme Court

Clement Hugh Hill to William Darlington, 24 October 1871

  • Date: October 24, 1871
  • Creator(s): Clement Hugh Hill | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Nima Najafi Kianfar Clement Hugh Hill to William

Whitman’s Drift

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Cohen, Matt
Text:

For help with chapter 1, I am indebted to William L.

DB William White, ed., Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks. 3 vols.

William G.

William H.

, William Allen, 57 “Verses Written at the Grave of white settlement myth, 184, 251n116 McIntosh” (Posey

"Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Collmer, Robert G.
Text:

(1856) by William Henry Smith.

the ostent"—the universal spirit that breathes throughout nature and persons.BibliographyFriedman, William

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: August 1860
  • Creator(s): Conway, Moncure D.
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Williams, Captain John

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

Stephen A.CooperWilliams, Captain JohnWilliams, Captain John Captain John Williams, great-grandfather

As a young man Williams served under John Paul Jones on the Bon Homme Richard; notably, he fought in

Williams's daughter, Naomi ("Amy") Williams Van Velsor, told Whitman of his great-grandfather's sea adventures

Williams, Captain John

Smith, Alexander (ca. 1830–1867)

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

in Kilmarnock, Smith mainly educated himself by reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, William

William Sinclair. Edinburgh: Nimmo, 1909. Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

The Furtive Hen and the Cat Whose Tail Was Too Long: On Whitman's Traces

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Corona, Mario
Text:

been stricken with paralysis: he appears "at first sight quite an old man, with long grey, almost white

England in their integrity, and not only in the necessarily anaesthetized anthology provided in 1868 by William

another office, thanks to the intervention of friends, especially the writer and fellow civil servant William

tapping (with impeccably sassy aplomb) from a very high Old World source indeed, nothing less than William

William Thayer and Charles Eldridge were enterprising young men, eager to qualify themselves on the conservative

Correspondence of Walt Whitman, The (1961–1977)

  • Creator(s): Costanzo, Angelo
Text:

The letters to his longtime friends and admirers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Douglas O'Connor

Organicism

  • Creator(s): Costanzo, Angelo
Text:

In a lecture on William Shakespeare's work, the British romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, rejected

flight of mating eagles.The first scholar to write at length about Whitman's organic principle was William

London: Martin Secker, 1914.Kennedy, William Sloane. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

And it means, Sprouting, alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders orders through a countenance white

, Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt with long white

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Dana Estes to Walt Whitman, 14 January 1890

  • Date: January 14, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dana Estes
Text:

WINTHROP, GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, JOHN G. WHITTIER, GEORGE BANCROFT, NOAH PORTER, JOSEPH H.

PRINCE, WILLIAM W. STORY, PHILLIPS BROOKS, CHARLES W.

Hicks, Elias (1748–1830)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

grandfather, Jesse Whitman, and Hicks had been friendly as youths, and his maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

Smith devoted a chapter of Unforgotten Years to his remembrances of Whitman; however, William White has

version of the Smiths' arrangements for this visit differs from accounts found in sources cited by White

White, William. "Logan Pearsall Smith on Walt Whitman: A Correction and Some Unpublished Letters."

David Hutcheson to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1880

  • Date: November 24, 1880
  • Creator(s): David Hutcheson
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:212).

"Quakers and Quakerism"

  • Creator(s): Dean, Susan Day
Text:

enjoyed free-ranging conversations with local Quaker acquaintances.His maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

(Van Velsor), brought Quaker culture from the Williams home when she married Cornelius Van Velsor.

culture whose chief contribution to democracy lay in the past.In 1889 one of Whitman's supporters, William

Unpublished manuscript, 1995.Kennedy, William Sloane. "Quaker Traits of Walt Whitman."

Realism

  • Creator(s): Dean, Thomas K.
Text:

Paul Zweig notes, for both Whitman and later realists like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser (and William

Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York."

Deborah V. Browning to Walt Whitman, 18 July 1880

  • Date: July 18, 1880
  • Creator(s): Deborah V. Browning
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

Debbie and Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
Text:

Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 3, 1890 (Trent Collection, William R.

When William Stansberry, a former soldier, wrote Walt and recalled the days in Armory Square Hospital

leading with a rope a fine old cow—a young cow and calf were alongside—under the wagon was a large white

Both Walt and his friend William Douglas O'Connor encouraged Jeff's pursuit of knowledge by sending him

White & Co., 1878-), XXV, 51.

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

  • Creator(s): Deshae E. Lott
Text:

William Douglas O'Connor photograph of William Douglas O'Connor Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor . College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

O'Connor, William Douglas. "The Carpenter: A Christmas Story."

"O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]," by Deshae E.

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]

  • Creator(s): Donlon, David Breckenridge
Text:

David BreckenridgeDonlonThayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W.

Eldridge [1837–1903]Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W.

The firm also published Echoes of Harper's Ferry (1860), by James Redpath, and William Douglas O'Connor's

Thayer, William Wilde. "Autobiography of William Wilde Thayer." Unpublished manuscript, 1892.

Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]

Nature

  • Creator(s): Doudna, Martin K.
Text:

For him as for William Cullen Bryant in the opening lines of "Thanatopsis," nature as naturans speaks

deceptive.Whitman's poetic use of natural objects differs from that of his contemporaries such as William

Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

  • Creator(s): Dougherty, James
Text:

Kensett, William Sidney Mount, and George Caleb Bingham prior to its yearly lottery of paintings.

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 18 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

would revive the sights and sounds and smells of his Long Island youth, the "stretch of interminable white-brown

the schooner-yachts going in a good wind—"those daring, careening things of grace and wonder, those white

gorges, the streams of amber and bronze, brawling along their beds with frequent cascades and snow-white

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 29 November 1890

  • Date: November 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

had our first fall of snow here today, & very beautiful did the outside world look, all robed in its white

fair This morn are everywhere: For snow has fallen in the night And robed the slumb'ring world in white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 11 June 1891

  • Date: June 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Longaker, Horace Traubel & his bride (married in your room, Warry tells us) Talcott Williams, David McKay

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 17 June 1891

  • Date: June 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Gilchrist Talcot Williams O'Dowd Sarrazin S. Kennedy Miss Whitman Dr Longaker Capt Howell H. L.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 21–28 February 1891

  • Date: February 21–28 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Sol has struggled to pierce—with a touch of frost at nights covering every thing with its beautiful white

a big old ship's cabin" with its literary chaos —really kosmos to you—its stove its "bed with snow white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, January 1891

  • Date: January 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Ingersoll, Sloane Kennedy, David McKay, Talcott Williams Bernard O'Dowd, Melbourne R Pearsall Smith London

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1891

  • Date: May 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

We send you the Review of Reviews & Black & White P.P.S.

Annotations Text:

The Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was an illustrated British weekly periodical

In 1912, the Black & White was incorporated with another periodical, The Sphere.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

morning & especially the drive in the Country where the gardens are now all radiant with blossom—the white

the cherry & the plum (—the plum blossom appears before the leaves) & the sweetly delicate pink & white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 15 July 1891

  • Date: July 15, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

This morning I read a short letter from your friend Talcott Williams acknowledging rec t of the facsimile

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6–7 January 1891

  • Date: January 6–7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Frost had ornamented our windows with his inimitably beautiful pr & hung our hedges & trees with his white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 11 March 1891

  • Date: March 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

truly glorious day here—an easterly wind with bright sunshine, a beautiful blue sky with great snow-white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1891

  • Date: April 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I also send you this week's Black & White wh: contains a portrait of and article on Bismarck —one of

Annotations Text:

The Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was an illustrated British weekly periodical

In 1912, the Black & White was incorporated with another periodical, The Sphere.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 20–21 March 1891

  • Date: March 20–21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Morning magnificent—Easterly wind, bright sunshine, & blue sky with white clouds.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 2–3 August 1891

  • Date: August 2–3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

sea The corn now 3 feet high is in full ear the fields are all bordered with wildflowers—yellow & white

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