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Search : William White

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Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

Light and air

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spring gushing out from under the roots of an old tree barn‑yard, pond, yellow g j agged bank with white

The Play-Ground

  • Date: About 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Methinks, white‑winged angels, Floating unseen the while, Hover around this village green, And pleasantly

[The Atlantic Monthly for January]

  • Date: 29 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The present number, besides its numerous learned and elaborate papers, such as those on White’s Shakspere

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

  • Date: March 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

butcher etc—$149.00— Hard winter: 20 below zero, two nights ago—freezing without intermission—lake a white

Walt Whitman to Horace Traubel, 2 June 1889

  • Date: June 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

gilt edged—good job—bound in crepe—thick paper (like my Passage to India, robin-blue-egg color with white

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 16 December 1890

  • Date: December 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

In a letter he received from you he saw (and appropriated) a white hair attached to the mucilage of the

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

  • Date: November 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

imagine, dear Walt, how peaceful and dreamy the landscape is this morning—the air is full of great, white

The Herald Editor and the President

  • Date: 14 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

writer mentions that when at the capital a few days ago, Bennett dined, by special invitation, at the White

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 January 1890

  • Date: January 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

a few days but it is not likely it will do you any more harm than that It is wintry today, ground white

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

Cluster: Debris. (1860)

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

ONE sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair, He has the simple magnificence of health

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Our Book Table

  • Date: 27 February 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

Wednesday, September 4, 1889

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

It was curious—in those times—whenever the Count went to the White House he took his hat questioned—in

a sample proof first & tell me how much price for 100 " " " " 150 " " " " 200make large envelopes White

printed on —must be pretty strong paper—Some will go in the European or California mail)" inside a white

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

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]

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I shall always identify Washington with that huge and delicate towering bulge of pure white, where it

Then other varieties; there will be a procession of wagons, bright-painted and white-topped, marked "

Washington being full of great white architecture, takes through the Summer a prevailing color-effect

of white and green.

White canvas coverings arch them over, and each wagon has its six-mule team.

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

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

another side: it is the other side which the partisan always leaves out of his account: I remember William

He said: "William was a whirlwind when he had his health: what has he come to now? alas!

White a going over, of which I wrote you some time ago.

Brooklyniana, No. 35

  • Date: 30 August 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1636, at the request of Charles I, the Plymouth Company transferred to William Alexander, Earl of

The snow-white floor was sprinkled with fine sand, which was curiously stroked with a broom into fantastic

first carpet said to have been introduced into the colony was found in the house of the pirate, Kidd, William

Greenport, L. I. June 28th

  • Date: 28 June 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Lord, formerly member of Congress, Frederick William Lord (1800–1860) lived in Greenport and was a member

came a couple of little black fish; after which a real big one, twenty inches long, opening his great white

Whitman refers to Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905), Thomas Baldwin Thayer (1812–1886), and William Stevens

Presidents, United States

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

Walt Whitman was further influenced by the writing of William Leggett of the New York Evening Post, who

Grant, who would be Johnson's successor in the White House, and thought him "the noblest Roman of them

New York: Knopf, 1995.Thayer, William Roscoe. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman."

Scholarship, Trends in Whitman

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

The first defender was William Douglas O'Connor, whose famous 1866 pamphlet The Good Gray Poet argued

bibliographical scholarship, the same cumulative effect has been achieved, thanks to such scholars as William

White, Arthur Golden, Scott Giantvalley, Donald Kummings, Joel Myerson, and the various editors of the

Popular Culture, Whitman and

  • Creator(s): Reynolds, David S.
Text:

Whitman started out largely as a writer of gloom and skepticism, in the vein of popular poets like William

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

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

  • Creator(s): Smith, Sherwood
Text:

SherwoodSmithRossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]One of Whitman's

most important European editors, critics, and supporters, William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante

Rossetti, William Michael. The Diary of W.M. Rossetti, 1870-1873. Ed. Odette Bornand.

Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti. Ed. Roger W. Peattie.

Rossetti, William Michael [1829–1915]

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1890

  • Date: December 5, 1890
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

Cordially yours Talcott Williams T. Williams Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1890

Wednesday, December 12, 1888.

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

Talcott Williams over. Did not see W. Gilchrist came later: was in bedroom a few minutes.

But then, where is there anybody like William?

William made short work of the hair splitters.

Chadwick got on the wrong field when he called William a liar and crossed blades with him: William gave

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

  • Date: December 2, 1880
  • Creator(s): A. Williams
Text:

Williams This letter from A. Williams has been crossed out.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

Sunday, August 4, 1889

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

*(print 200 copies each card)—size of this white paper this sized card— card not very thick,—you are

Waves in the Vessel's wake

  • Date: About 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hastening waves from afar, smaller on larger, And the far billows reaching up, with their prying looks and white

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

  • Date: May 10, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

attack—it still keeps its hold—my knees, & indeed whole joint & muscular power are affected—Was down at White

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1888

  • Date: February 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

THE "MAPLEWOOD," MAPLEWOOD, WHITE MOUNTAINS, N.H. MAGNOLIA HOTEL AND SPRINGS. MAGNOLIA, ST.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 29 July [1891]

  • Date: July 29, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

How dreadfull she looks— wan and allmost entirely help less her thin gray—allmost white hair.

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

Sometimes it is white and reeking with foam as an injured ghost and for two weeks ago it took ago a new

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1888

  • Date: December 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

London, Ont., 2 Dec 188 8 It is a stupid, dull, dark, sulky day—ground white with snow but nothing approaching

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13–14 November 1889

  • Date: November 13–14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all-color'd chrysanthemums this season hereabout—you must have a splendid show of them—the yellow (canary) & white

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1860

  • Date: May 12, 1860
  • Creator(s): Henry Clapp, Jr. | Horace Traubel
Text:

fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged

Personal: Whitman

  • Date: 16 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

The City Dead-House.

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old high-spired

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 19–20 July 1891

  • Date: July 19–20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

: of me period f'm '60 to '70 (the war time) & was the favorite of Wm & Mrs: O'Connor —the head on white

The City Dead-House

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

Or white-domed Capitol itself, with magestic majestic figure sur- mounted surmounted —or all the old

With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!

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

thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white-maned

Tuesday, August 6, 1889

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

Had made his selection of card, putting with samples this memoranda: I prefer the white card (thickest

of all "samples") marked * in the little book "Of course," he said to me, "I wish the white: I am going

About Pictures, &c.

  • Date: 21 Novermber 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

satisfaction the 'Portrait of a Gentleman,' No. 19—'Portrait of a Child,' No. 31—the 'Kitchen Bail at White

Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Child have not been identified; Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur

Annotations Text:

.; Portrait of a Gentleman and Portrait of a Child have not been identified; Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur

Grand Buildings in New York City

  • Date: 5 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

avenue, Madison avenue, and tens of streets around and above Union Park, have their palatial houses of white

Such considerations as these make us laugh at the architecture of the New York Custom House, with its white

The Colored Folk’s Festival

  • Date: 3 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whatever may be the diversity of opinion among the whites, in regard to the effect of Negro Emancipation

It seems to me that the white Douglass should occasionally meet his deserts at the hands of a black one

Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode

  • Date: 23 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.

We hove in sight of the steeples and white paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Whitman's Natal Day

  • Date: 1 June 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

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