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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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.”

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

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.

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."

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.____.

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?

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

Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

of delight" and "tooth prong") probably contributed to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

I see he has cut the leaves out of Bucke's black-bound annual report, pasted a sheet of white paper over

Kashmir , or a country farther east, is not easily determined—but it seems that, accordingly, the white

sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march

sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

NOT alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march

NOT alone our camps of white, O soldiers, When, as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and

bride groom—I think him a lucky man— Well I must close at once, for here comes a fine lively team of white

Johnson's picture by mail—(It is intended to be put in a square gray or white mat with oval top , & then

been staying alone here in the house, as the folks have gone off on summer trip—My sister is at the White

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

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

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific; In each house is the ovum—it

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

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

Wisdom" as Captain William A.

For a more complete history of William Wisdom and his presidency of the New York Washingtonians, see

The dream vision of a great homogenous (white) nation coming together twenty years in the future, in

These versions are described in William G. Lulloff, " Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate ," in J. R.

Lulloff, William G. "Franklin Evans (1842)." In Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia , 234–236. M. W. H.

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick-gray

and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened: The white

I see his white body . . . .

with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head— he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunk- ards drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 118, 122, 35, 152).

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

appeared in the New York Sun on June 15, one paragraph of which began: "The man most looked at was the white-haired

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."

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.

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

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."

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

James T.F.TannerJames, William (1842–1910)James, William (1842–1910)It is certain that William James,

William James: A Biography. New York: Viking, 1967.Bucke, Richard Maurice, ed.

Philadelphia: Innes, 1901.James, William. Pragmatism and Other Essays. 1907.

"Walt Whitman and William James." Calamus: Walt Whitman Quarterly International 2 (1970): 6–23.

James, William (1842–1910)

White Chrysanthemums: Literary Fragments and Pronouncements. Ed. George Knox and Harry Lawton.

the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks and whites

White, Ex-President of Cornell University wrote: "I have long believed that such schools are among the

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

some are such beautiful animals, so lofty looking; Some are buff-color'd, some mottled, one has a white

—I was down at White Horse Monday & Tuesday last—expect to go down again Sunday—Just as I left your letter