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put yourself out to get it )—As I write the sun is shining bright & clear as can be—the ground is white

a fine house across the way from Hospt No 3, where the Surgn Steward and women stop it has a large white

Suspicion of more strength in me—splendid effect f'm electric light shining in on big bunch of snowy white

White's, & unlock the big trunk, (the one that is strapped) and take out My gray suit , coat, vest, &

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

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

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.

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.____.

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."

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

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

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

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]

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

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

How beautiful its clusters of pink and white blossoms are, and how delightfully fragrant!

The squirrel cups vary in color, some being white, others pink, and others still bluish or lilac-colored

waves—In such, Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine, Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

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

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

Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

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]

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."

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

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."

Whereas in "Song of Myself," for example, he implies an equality between the Indian and white man, in

series of editorials written while he served as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Whitman celebrated white

WhitmanGeorge Horton in the Chicago HeraldAn old man I once saw,Bowed low was he with time,Heart-frosted, white

little islands, larger ad- joining adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Now, a little nymph, with her white pantalettes, and gypsey hat, A brimmed hat with a low crown. and

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

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

signs, I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad, I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

little islands, larger ad- joining adjoining islands, the heights, the villas, The countless masts, the white

Most of them are made of white marble, & on a far grander scale than the N. Y.

likely, is that our base of the army is to be changed to Harrison's Landing on James river instead of White

How can white think well of black? And then, the anti-copperhead talk is still rampant here.

Every thing is white with snow, but the sun has been clear & dazzling all day—The hour of office-closing

come before these potent, grave and reverend signors, is that of the admission, on equal terms with whites

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)

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 .

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

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

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

(A Reminiscence of 1864.) 1 WHO are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your woolly-white

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

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

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

meas- ureless 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-gray

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

meas- ureless 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

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

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

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.