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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman: The Athletic Bard Paralyzed and in a Rocking Chair

  • Date: 21 May 1876
  • Creator(s): J. B. S.
Text:

Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

Our Old Feuillage.

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

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

Our Old Feuillage.

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

where men have not yet sail'd, the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes, White

tree tops, Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white

wind, The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites

William J. Bok to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1890

  • Date: October 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): William J. Bok
Text:

WILLIAM J. BOK.

With respect, Heartily yours, William J. Bok.

William J. Bok to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1890

Monday, March 4, 1889

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

Even William—God Bless him!

Had to tell him about William's room, too.

Bucke wanted to know if K. had met William.

"No: I'm wrong: it was from Marshall Williams: portrait and book: he sent both: Williams wishes them

to bring William physically closer to me."

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Little or big, learned or unlearned, white or black, legal or illegal, sick or well, from the first inspiration

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

afar at sunset—the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti Hotten: Piccadilly.

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) was an English physician who famously published an expurgated edition of William

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 2 July 1868

  • Date: July 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Williams, the subject of a communication made to your Department by the United States Consul at Melbourne

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, 1 August 1868

  • Date: August 1, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

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

Evarts to William H. Seward, 1 August 1868

Friday, June 20, 1890

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

I was in to see Talcott Williams today at the Press.

W.Talcott Williams had a report of W. W.'s talk about immortality at the dinner.

Williams in favor of printing the matter together—very generously urging upon me, also, to let no cost

Also a birthday book for one of the Johnston girls and a paper for Bucke.Talcott Williams discovered

W.Talcott Williams's regret that Eakins had not attended the dinner W. said—"I am more sorry about Dave—we

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. 1867 - 1870

  • Date: ca. 1867 - 1870
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, ca. 1867 - 1870 For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Of all the western stars

  • Date: After December 1885; December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Unknown
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

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

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1888

  • Date: January 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 24 February 1865

  • Date: February 24, 1865
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

I drew 2 months pay to day and bought a new suit of clothes and now I feel something like a white man

Hartmann, C. Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944)

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
Text:

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

"'Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The'" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

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

The Ox-Tamer.

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

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

The Ox-Tamer.

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

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

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

Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

after he began editing the Times, Whitman wrote the editorials "Kansas and the Political Future" and "White

If this is so, Whitman observes, then slaves are as capable as white Americans and deserve the rights

The Lounger

  • Date: 29 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Jeannette Gilder
Text:

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

More Catholic Insolence!

  • Date: 12 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Denman was the editor of the New York Truth Teller (Edwin Williams, New-York Annual Register

for the Year of Our Lord 1834 [New York: Edwin Williams, 1834], 125).

For more information, see William B.

Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

WalterGrünzweigRolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

Thomas William Hazen Rolleston's interest in a German translation of Whitman can be attributed to his

Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 July 1889

  • Date: July 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I am sorry to tell you that after all my careful economy & saving, the various things into which William

I have had no manner of rest since William had the first attack a year ago last January, & I am really

You are mistaken, dear Walt, in saying that I have not written you since dear William's death.

A day or two before William passed away he awoke from a nap & asked me "if Walt had gone?"

If ever the people that owe money to William would pay me, I should not be so worried about my daily

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

  • Creator(s): Deshae E. Lott
Text:

William Douglas O'Connor photograph of William Douglas O'Connor Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor . College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

O'Connor, William Douglas. "The Carpenter: A Christmas Story."

"O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]," by Deshae E.

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

Monday, April 9, 1888.

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

Tucker," said W., "has been giving me the very devil in Liberty for calling the Emperor William a 'faithful

Take William O'Connor—take Tucker himself—they deserve to be listened to."

Just as I was about to leave W. reverted to the Emperor William affair: "Do you think I had better write

it clear that my reference was to the Emperor as a person—that my democracy included him: not the William

the tyrant, the aristocrat, but the William the man who lived according to his light: I do not see why

Monday, April 13, 1891

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

I was in to see Talcott Williams. He will send us the colloquy.

Talcott Williams likewise told me he cared nothing for anything Ingersoll said—did not care to preserve

Williams had intended printing and circulating among W.'s friends.

Williams' "popularity" among "the boys" in town, and seemed surprised when I said he said he seemed disliked

Williams, W. said, "I hardly remember what it all amounts to.

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady? or William Kurtz?, ca. 1863 - 1867

  • Date: ca. 1863 - 1867
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B. | Kurtz, William
Text:

or William Kurtz?

, ca. 1863 - 1867 For more information on Mathew Brady and William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers

The Sleepers.

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

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 ripen'd; The white

to his head—he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges him- self 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

Sleep-Chasings

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

The wretched features of ennuyés, the white fea- tures features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen'd; 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

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, [1880]

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

Williams & Co. A. Williams to Walt Whitman, [1880]

Monday, February 11, 1889

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

[W. broke in: "Oh, William, William! it wasn't, it wasn't! God help us!"]

William? that's a fighting word!" laughing.]

This morning Doctor Bucke sends me William's letter.

Poor William! poor all of us!" I said again: "Rich all of us, too! Rich William! rich Walt!"]

Talked of young Emperor William.

Monday, October 20, 1890

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

Talcott Williams and wife still away in Adirondacks.

Afterward we gave his ticket to Thomas Earle White.

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From late June through the middle of October 1863, forces under Union General William S.

trees, through all the streets and in the well-kept public grounds, and through this green, the milky white

[Italian Opera in New Orleans]

  • Date: 15 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Featuring white performers in "blackface," these shows reinforced racial stereotypes of African Americans

In the 1840s, he was known for his rivalry with William Macready, a British actor, which partially instigated

Annotations Text:

Featuring white performers in "blackface," these shows reinforced racial stereotypes of African Americans

Epic Structure

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Walker, Jeffrey.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 15 April 1886

  • Date: April 15, 1886
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

Bryant Mrs Talcott Williams 5 Miss Horrie Royce Seats sold 19 129. I shall be over in a day or two.

Yours lovingly Talcott Williams T. W ms Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 15 April 1886

More about William Blake

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

More about William Blake—I met R.W.

More about William Blake

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 August 1868

  • Date: August 23, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

discharge her "darkey": "she got so lazy she was worse then nobody. last thursday I got another girl (a white

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1877

  • Date: November 7, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Frank G. Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1890

  • Date: April 17, 1890
  • Creator(s): Frank G. Carpenter
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 15 August 1888

  • Date: August 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978).

[Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth] to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 513–514).

Thursday, February 21, 1889

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

I said: "William calls Comstock an unmitigated ass." W. laughed most heartily.

"Not a suspicion of a word: I sit here seeing William thousands-wise: he presents himself to me persistently

"I'm afraid I was: William said to me more than once: 'Walt, you're as fast as frozen molasses!'"

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

Sumner said to William once: 'Whitman would have been all right if he'd only written Democratic Vistas

Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Their names can be found on the passenger list for the vessel William Patten .

They had two sons, Edward, a bricklayer, and William, a carpenter.

William R.

Whites ( ., 2: 308).

McLaughlin's mother); Katherine; William E.; and Henrietta.

Wallace, James William [1853–1926]

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

Larry D.GriffinWallace, James William [1853–1926]Wallace, James William [1853–1926]James William Wallace

Wallace, James William [1853–1926]

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1889]

  • Date: [March 5, 1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Affectionately [William Sloane Kennedy] William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1889]

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William McMichael, 13 September 1871

  • Date: September 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

William McMichael, Washington, D.C. Sir: The letter of Mr. William S.

Price Benjamin Helm Bristow to William McMichael, 13 September 1871

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

, then it is from after 1865, when Kurtz first opened his New York studio.For more information on William

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