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Walt Whitman by William Kurtz? or Mathew Brady?

In a letter to William Michael Rossetti, Whitman wrote, "I confess to myself a perhaps capricious fondness

For more information on William Kurtz and Mathew Brady, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

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

William had the best night last night since a week ago and has sat up all day. Your card just here.

Le Barnes in, and looking at your big book, for which we thank you, both William and I, each, for our

William sends love. I too. Nelly Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1889

Pasadena, California February 11, 1887 Dear Walt, William and I are here at Dr. Channing's home.

I brought William out here from Washington in the hope that the climate might arrest the progress of

William and I received here (forwarded from Washington) letters from Mr.

William was unable to answer, much to his regret, but I did the best I could on my own account.

A week ago William Rossetti sent off to you ￡21.2.0 and ￡1. sent by Aldrich; this latter is in the form

William Rossetti and your friends generally were very pleased and glad to get your letter (William Rossetti

William Rossetti sent you the ￡21.2.0. through the post office .

Wesley A.BrittonEverson, William (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994)Everson, William (Brother Antoninus)

Everson, William. Birth of a Poet: The Santa Cruz Meditations. Ed. Lee Bartlett.

Everson, William (Brother Antoninus) (1912–1994)

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.

William McMichael Esq. Ass't. Attorney Gen'l at Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.

William S.

this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Melanie Krupa A.T Akerman to William

Camden noon [Sept:] 2 '90 Y'r card rec'd ab't piece—don't know of Williams having any mark'd Welsh blood—never

heard ab't that—one of the stock names on the womens' (Williams') side was Kossabone (doubtless Causabone

to me to see if points right—but do as you have a mind to—no hurry ab't piece— W W Walt Whitman to William

Gilchrist,1884 . .11^ William Blake.

I WILLIAM BLAKE.

[William] Jan.

William M.

Etty, William, R.

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

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

Williams & Co Dear Sirs In compliance with your request of 28 I send by Adams's Express three copies

Walt Whitman Bill Camden N J A Williams & Co To W Whitman To three copies Leaves of Grass @ $1.75–$5.25

Williams and Company, 30 November 1877

Frank Williams has given me his banquet speech.I met Frank Williams today and he gave me in brief, the

Frank Williams has a great deal of feeling on the point, that Ingersoll, in his speech at the dinner,

Williams' speech as he gives it to me, all correct except that part in which he bitterly speaks of the

I argued with Williams that an agnostic could not deal in negations, as he says—that his whole temper

I told him of Talcott Williams' note, saying he had a report of W.'s own talk.

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 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

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

May 2. 1876 Dear Walt: Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter received by William.

You had better accept their invitation—How did you like Williams William's article?

New York, May 24 th 186 7 To Scott & Williams, Dr. (Late, WM. E.

Nassau & William.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

William (1849–1919)Osler, Dr.

William (1849–1919) Born in Bond Head, Ontario, Canada, Osler graduated from the McGill University medical

The Life of Sir William Osler. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1925. Leon, Philip W.

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Traubel, Horace.

William (1849–1919)

Attorney at Knoxville, Tennessee, to defend a suit against the postmaster at that place brought by William

Williams, the owner of the post office building for rent of the same whilst in the hands of the military

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar William

William McMichael, Esq. Assistant Attorney Gen'l at Court of Claims. Sir: Mr.

Talbot writes to me that he thinks such a letter as I mentioned to you in relation to the claim of William

Akerman to William McMichael, 27 December 1871

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

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

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

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

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

William H. Seward. Secretary of State.

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger William

Evarts to William H. Seward, 14 November 1868

will like the boys, they will adore you and it will do you and us good all around Yours Talcott Williams

Williams Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, [20 May 1887]

In joy and gratitude at the privilege of being one on whom you rely I am Yours Talcott Williams From

Talcott Williams June '86 (enclosing $8) Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 11 June 1886

Very faithfully yours, Will Williams. P.S.

magazine in question will contain contributions by well-known English and American authors. from Will Williams

Will Williams to Walt Whitman, 31 May 1875

OFFICE OF SCOTT & WILLIAMS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 24 BEEKMAN STREET, New York , Aug 14th 186 7 Walt

Your earliest attention will much oblige Yours Respectfully Scott & Williams for Kent P.S.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Beverley Rilett Scott & Williams to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1867

William B. (1842–1877)Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877) In 1873 Dr.

William Beverly Drinkard of Washington, D.C., treated Whitman when he suffered the first of his paralytic

William B. (1842–1877)

Calder's first husband, William Douglas O'Connor (married 22 October 1856), invited Whitman to live with

Shortly after meeting O'Connor, she introduced him to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, which William

By William Douglas O'Connor. Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1927. i–ix. ———. Myrtilla Miner: A Memoir.

"William O'Connor and Walt Whitman." The Conservator 17 (1906): 42. Freedman, Florence Bernstein.

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985.

It was a small, white shell. —by modern folks Turtle-hill.

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and density, with shells, large boulders or a pure white

reception of Le Dieu et la Bayadere and other European ballet/pantomime performances circa 1840–1860, see William

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

It was a small, white shell.; Montauk Point Light, finished in in 1797 and not 1795, as Whitman writes

William Schouler. Boston, Mass.

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger William

Evarts to William Schouler, 24 November 1868

Williams, indicted for murder committed within the boundaries of Fort Niagara, and to request that the

Williams No. N. Y.

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Anthony Dreesen Nima Najafi Kianfar Melanie Krupa Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

I said: "William says he'd like to write these days, but can't.

Again: "William thinks he cannot write: that settles the question for William: it is not a physiological—no

But he thought I should write oftener to William.

William, of Stratford—that it closes so much of truth out.

William of what?" and after I explained, laughed and said: "I see!

the Attorney of the U.S. for New Mexico, to the Solicitor of the Treasury, relative to the case of William

Bristow, Solicitor General & Acting Attorney General. case of William Knorr New Mex. see p. 219 ante

to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Yes, William was a choice debater.

William was ardent, impulsive—yet no man spoke out of a greater knowledge.

William was choked with a various knowledge—always spoke out of that.

William was even—his passion, fire, always lasted.

William always came in with great splendor.