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Search : William White

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Diary of Edmund Gosse: Sat. Jan. 3

  • Date: 1966
  • Creator(s): Edmund Gosse
Text:

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

Diary of George Washington Whitman, September 1861 to 6 September 1863

  • Date: September 1861; September 6, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Just about daylight a white flag was hoisted on the rebel breastworks (as we afterwards found by the

Dickens and Democracy

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Quilp—the dull, callous insensibility to any virtue, of Sikes Fagin (Whitman misspells his name) and William

Dictionaries

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

New York: William Morrow, 1990.Dressman, Michael Rowan.

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

"Dirge for Two Veterans" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Ignoffo, Matthew
Text:

Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1992. 33–43.Burrison, William.

distinctness every syllable the flounderer

  • Date: 1840s or early 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

every syllable the flounderer spoke, up to his hips in the snow, and blinded by the cutting sharp white

crystals making that made the air densely one opaque white.

Do I not prove myself

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

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

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

One Williams College copy has a blank copyright page; two other copies, now at the University of Virginia

White notes by way of context that "the scrapbook was used by Whitman to keep clippings from newspapers

In research for a short article describing the discovery, William White determined that the document

White also identified the "Mr.

White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First American Literature 28.4 (1957): 516–17.

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Early Draft Advertisements

  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

"Swayne" was William Whiting Swayne of Ireland (ca. 1825–1883), a bookseller and, later, a publisher

Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
Text:

At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles

First at William & Mary and now at Nebraska, I have had one or two students helping me (working a combined

Nelson, and Matt Cohen—were hired into full-time staff positions at William & Mary in Information Technology

Douglas and Buchanan

  • Date: 8 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In order to render the Senator's re-election hopeless, the crafty inhabitant of the White House turned

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
Text:

Douglas's bill was perceived as a threat by Northern abolitionists and working class whites because it

Douglass, Frederick (1818–1895)

  • Creator(s): Higgins, Andrew C.
Text:

1838 to the North, where he became active in the abolitionist movement, working with people like William

that required them to rethink their approach to life, literature, and politics.Bibliography Andrews, William

McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. Sundquist, Eric J., ed.

Dowden, Edward (1843–1913)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

His substantial literary reputation rests upon his prolific writings about William Shakespeare; he also

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

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, 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, 26 March 1892

  • Date: March 26, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 27 December 1890

  • Date: December 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

As I write the sun is shining fitfully on the white-roofed houses & a few sparrows are pecking up the

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, 3 June 1891

  • Date: June 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

sycamores & mountain ashes, overlooking a wide expanse of pastoral country dotted with old time, grey & white

In the middle distance lay the lake, to purple waters sparkling in the sunshine & rippling in tiny white-crested

At our feet lay the white roadway & the grey stone work of the low-arched bridge at one end of which

Upon the lovely landscape the sun shone with dazzling effulgence from out the white-cloud-flecked empyrean

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, 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, 6–7 August 1891

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

old mother endlessly crying for her castaways" ["]sways to & fro singing her husky song" the "milk white

Annotations Text:

Johnston quotes the phrase "milk-white combs careering" from Whitman's poem "Patroling Barnegat," which

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, 7 November 1891

  • Date: November 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I send you this week's Black & White & Christian Commonwealth containing portraits of & articles on two

Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

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, 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. Scudder's Lecture

  • Date: 7 May 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

coffee plants with their little flowers are seen on the plain, while the Rhododendron and the wild white

Dr. William Reeder to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

  • Date: November 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
Text:

William Reeder to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

Drinkard, Dr. William B. (1842–1877)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

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)

Drum-Taps.

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

accoutrements—they buckle the straps carefully; Outdoors arming—indoors arming—the flash of the musket-barrels; The white

Drum-Taps

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

accoutrements—they buckle the straps carefully; Outdoors arming—indoors arming—the flash of the musket-barrels; The white

Drum-Taps (1865)

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

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

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

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

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

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

Drum-Taps also garnered the attention of Henry James and William Dean Howells, both of whom disparaged

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

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in toward land; The great steady wind from west and west-by-south, Floating so buoyant, with milk-white

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

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

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

WORLD, take good notice, silver stars fading, Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching, Coals thirty-six

Dumb Kate.—an Early Death

  • Date: May 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There stands a little white stone at the head, and the grass In Collect , "the grass" is replaced by

Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

(Gross's widowed daughter-in-law married Whitman's doctor, William Osler.)

Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician. Toronto: ECW, 1995. Rule, Henry B.

[Earth]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to George S. Boutwell, 13 July 1869

  • Date: July 13, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

letter of the 8th inst. with the accompanying papers, all relating to the Internal Revenue case of William

Case, William Owens.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to George S. Boutwell, 3 April 1869

  • Date: April 3, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

White and Errickson of the First Collection Dist. of Missouri—and to say that I approve of the compromise

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 13 July 1869

  • Date: July 13, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Sir: I am directed by the President to request you to issue Commissions appointing William H.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 20 April 1870

  • Date: April 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Chase, seized at the same time with the "Catherine Whiting," and for alleged complicity with her.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 5 March 1870

  • Date: March 5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

copy of a note of the 28th ult., from the British Minister to you enclosed, relative to the trial of William

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 9 June 1870

  • Date: June 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Marshal of California relative to the proceedings of the master of the British ship "William Wilson"

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