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Search : William White

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Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1888

  • Date: November 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

All quiet here, no word from Wm Gurd, it begins to smell wintry, ground is white with snow this morning

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 April [188]9

  • Date: April 2, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Ground still quite white with snow Affectionately yours R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1891

  • Date: July 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

"White Star S.S. Brittanic N. Y.["] I will send you a word the last thing as I sail out to sea.

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 17 March [1877]

  • Date: March 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

mean the excitement of so much company—every thing is quiet & secluded here—all winter too, the snow white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe sum- mer summer , bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Thought.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Thought.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone, Sinking there while the

Review of Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Marston, John
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti (Hotten.)

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Leaves of Grass, 1860 edition

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

The book's pages were well-printed in a clear ten-point type on heavy white paper and elaborately decorated

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Native Americans [Indians]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

formative years of Leaves of Grass, many of the most explosive Western battles between natives and whites

Tale of the Western Frontier," about a deformed and treacherous amalgam of the worst qualities of the white

the far west, the bride was a red girl" (section 10)—a scene that has been read as suggestive of the white

the present day, have propensities, monstrous and treacherous, that make them unfit to be left in white

Walt Whitman in Private Life

  • Date: 6 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Olive Harper
Text:

.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

Walt Whitman by Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Williams, Sophia Wells Royce
Text:

Walt Whitman by Unknown, probably Sophia Williams, 1887 Carolyn Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph

: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American Art Journal vol. 21, no. 4, 1989, pp

(1850–1928), a writer and the wife of journalist and editor of the Philadelphia Press, Talcott Williams

Talcott Williams.”

Williams took years ago—the one which counterfeits W. at parlor window.”

Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Philip W.LeonWilliams, Talcott (1849–1928)Williams, Talcott (1849–1928) Talcott Williams was born in

is the presence of Talcott Williams" (Traubel 341).

In 1887 Williams introduced Eakins to Whitman so that he could paint his portrait.

Talcott Williams: Gentleman of the Fourth Estate. Brooklyn: Robert E. Simpson, 1936.

Williams, Talcott. The Newspaperman. New York: Scribner, 1922. Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)

[What think you I have]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

you I have]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm; On a composite leaf of white

Benjamin Helm Bristow to Columbus Delano, 23 October 1871

  • Date: October 23, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting, Esq., Superintendent of Indian Affairs of California, relative to certain acts of trespass upon

W. A. Field to George M. Robeson, 30 June 1869

  • Date: June 30, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

telegram received last night from Marshal Barlow of New York City, I am informed that the steamer Whiting

Walt Whitman to Beatrice Gilchrist, 30 August [1878]

  • Date: August 30, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I think Mrs Stafford is only middling—(I havn't haven't been at White Horse now for a fortnight) —My

Walt Whitman to Frederick Oldach, 16 May 1889

  • Date: May 16, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(if yet to be done) trim them, especially No: 1 and No: 4, leaving a little more white paper at bottom

George E. Dodge to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1880

  • Date: November 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): George E. Dodge
Text:

WHITE PINE TIMBER AND LUMBER TO ORDER. OFFICE, NO. 72 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK. GE, MEIGS & CO.

Leaves of Grass 4

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

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

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There are two or three large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is relieved by some ornaments

O'Connor, the wife of William Douglas O'Connor.

Through the rich August verdure of the trees see that white group of buildings off yonder in the outskirts

Harewood Hospital, a model hospital like Judiciary Square and Lincoln, was built on the estate of William

Political Views

  • Creator(s): Hirschhorn, Bernard
Text:

An ardent Jacksonian Democrat, he revered William Leggett, the party's foremost spokesman in the 1830s

Democratic presidential candidate Martin Van Buren, who lost his re-election bid to Whig candidate William

the Wilmot Proviso, but he remained loyal.Whitman defended the rights and dignity of free male labor—white

of the people of the Union, Whitman was not prepared to accept the political and social equality of white

Walt Whitman and the Family of Francis Williams by Francis Williams?, 1888

  • Date: 1888
  • Creator(s): Williams, Francis Howard
Text:

Walt Whitman and the Family of Francis Williams by Francis Williams?

, 1888 Back of Library of Congress copy identifies this as "Family of Francis Williams, ca. 1888," taken

at the Williams' house in Germantown, Philadelphia.

Mary Williams' face has been scratched out, and the Williams children are Aubrey (in front of Whitman

Francis Howard Williams was a playwright and poet, and Whitman recalled "how splendidly the Williamses

Wednesday, February 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

William: maybe it's something that belongs in your treasure box: you have too much stuff, nonsense, in

that box, but nothing of William's comes within such a category.

good points in it, which I took in.I am in great mourning that I can't get my reply to Richard Grant White

letter down on my knee and looked at him: "Well—that is a fusillade, a volley, a charge on the run—William

at his vehementest: a nugget too: God knows what not: when he goes on in that mood William is simply

Monday, December 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Yes—surely: for the purposes of that edition that was the best thing to do: yet we lost heaps in losing William

There was another regret from which I have always suffered: I always wished William to figure in some

He held a smallish white unstamped envelope up before me. "This: look at it."

Wednesday, April 1, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

friend:I have come to know you through your writings and through the warm praises of our dead friend, William

Clay: White Hall, Ky.Jan. 6. 1891Dear Sir,I have just received your "Leaves of Grass etc." 1890—for which

Had I not better see Talcott Williams?

Letters from a Travelling Bachelor–No. II

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See Peter Ross and William Smith Pelletreau, A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to

As you travel along the roads you see the white tomb-stones, group after group, some far, and some near

Actor and manager William ("Billy") Mitchell (1798-1856) popularized the burlesque theater (also known

Language

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
Text:

that Whitman was the coauthor or ghostwriter of Rambles Among Words, published in 1859 by his friend William

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____.

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winds blowsouth, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See, from my dead lips

In the night, in solitude, tears, On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand, Tears

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 11 December 1887

  • Date: December 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 439).

[These I, singing in spring]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 25 September [1877]

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hear about Al and May—& I want to hear about the baby—Please do a little thing for me—there was a white

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 18 March [1878]

  • Date: March 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden March 18 5 p m Dear Herby I have just come up this afternoon from White Horse —Friday & Saturday

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 April [1877]

  • Date: April 10, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White Horse N J New Jersey April 10 Dearest friend, I am having comfortable times down here for me—spend

The World Below the Brine.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Leaves of Grass 16

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

The World Below the Brine.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white

Beloved Walt Whitman: An Ambrosial Night with his Devoted Friends and Admirers

  • Date: 26 October 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

Sunday, March 3, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

they were: I may say, John has changed towards himself—that I notice—but he has not changed towards William

—that is William: the sympathetic is the center of his being—the explanation of it all: the fire of his

W. explained: "That depression is not William: he defies all that: it is more likely to be Nellie: she

Bucke argues that William should go to some institution, where he can be better taken care of by able-bodied

"That is William: it sounds like him: it has his sangfroid, his nonchalance."

Thursday, June 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Frank Williams and his wife were over today—also Osler—but there were no other visitors, except, of course

Had W. yet been able to read Frank Williams' American paper? "I have looked it through—that's all.

was unfit—that no one but Walt Whitman could have proved equal to the exigency: but William found few

As I left he said: "Do not fail to write Bucke right along—write Burroughs—write to William O'Connor.

He wears baggy pants, his coat is too long for him, his hair and beard are long and white, he wears a

Sunday, November 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

W. said: "They are not extraneous: they all have a place: I think William was justified in all he did

"It is one of William's letters," he explained, "one of the best: full of fire—direct, explicit—with

William resembles a natural law: he is beyond appeal: he delivers himself without apologies: he kills

Grant White had a dastardly mass of lies and perversion in The Atlantic in April anent of Mrs.

White's hide off, and "hang the calf-skin on his recreant limbs."

Wednesday, March 30, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Fairchild's; Aldrich's; one marked "from Nellie and William O'Connor"; and several other sprays, from

Williams solemn, serious—Chambers merry, fine, full of life.

s friends, Talcott Williams and Morris among them. The flowers, wreaths along.

Williams, F. H.

Williams, Brinton, Ingram and daughter, Bonsall, Donaldson, Joseph Fels and wife, H. H.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

but all through the land The names of the flowers. lilacs roses early lilies the colors, purple & white

I cross'd the Nevadas

  • Date: About 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

fresh'd refresh'd by the storm, I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I mark'd the white

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