Skip to main content

Search Results

Filter by:

Date


Dates in both fields not required
Entering in only one field Searches
Year, Month, & Day Single day
Year & Month Whole month
Year Whole year
Month & Day 1600-#-# to 2100-#-#
Month 1600-#-1 to 2100-#-31
Day 1600-01-# to 2100-12-#

Work title

See more

Year

Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 15 October 1866
  • Creator(s): Moncure D. Conway
Text:

arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, September (?) 1866

  • Date: September (?) 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

enervation, and producing depression and enervation as their result;—or else that class of poetry, plays

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 12 June 1866

  • Date: June 12, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

think how those old ones you fixed, & fixed again, have held out—but, poor old things, they have got played

Review of Drum-Taps

  • Date: 24 February 1866
  • Creator(s): Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
Text:

John Esten Cooke is a Virginian, who early joined the rebellion, in which his State played so prominent

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

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

up here, soul, soul; Come up here, dear little child, To fly in the clouds and winds with us, and play

defiles through the woods, gain'd at night, The British advancing, wedging in from the east, fiercely playing

Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy; They are cut off—murderous artillery from the hills plays

races; I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces played

Answer That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will

Walt Whitman to Alfred Pratt, 26 August 1865

  • Date: August 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a cloudy drizzly day here & heavy mist—There is nothing very new or special—There was a big match played

another is to come off between a New York & the Philadelphia club I believe—thousands go to see them play

Annotations Text:

On the following day the Nationals played the New York Atlantics.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 25 May 1865

  • Date: May 25, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beautiful flag )—the great drum corps of sixty or eighty drummers massed at the heads of the brigades, playing

whistling fifes—but they sounded very lively—(perhaps a band of sixty drums & fifteen or twenty fifes playing

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Review— fifes like a tho the thousand whistles of the fifes, (playing Lannigan's ball) so ro with inexpressible

Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1865

  • Date: May 4, 1865
  • Creator(s): Peter Eckler
Text:

Eckler Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1865

Walt Whitman to Peter Eckler, 3 May 1865

  • Date: May 3, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to Peter Eckler, 3 May 1865

Walt Whitman to Peter Eckler, 2 May 1865

  • Date: May 2, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Peter Eckler, 2 May 1865

Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1865

  • Date: May 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Peter Eckler
Text:

Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 1 May 1865

Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1865

  • Date: April 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Peter Eckler
Text:

Eckler Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1865

Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1865

  • Date: April 22, 1865
  • Creator(s): Peter Eckler
Text:

.) $14.85 due Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1865

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and cold, or what underlies them all, are affected with what affects man in masses, and follow his play

floating along, rising, falling leisurely, with here and there a long-drawn note; the bugle, well played

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 7 March [1865]

  • Date: March 7, 1865
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

i have just got your letter i write to say sis is much better she has been down stairs to day and plays

Buffalo he is very much attached to George he said when the Captain was sick he was A great mind to play

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1865]

  • Date: March 5, 1865
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Velsor Whitman reported on March 7, 1865 that "sis is much better she has been down stairs to day and plays

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [26 February 1865]

  • Date: February 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

had to be paid for) and i have got A cheap carpet or cheap for these times the old carpet is all played

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1865

  • Date: January 19, 1865
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William would send love if he new that I was writing,—Jeannie is out playing & as usual, her voice is

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 6 January 1865

  • Date: January 6, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Little California is playing around me as I finish, & has been for half an hour.

principal personages of the

  • Date: Around 1869
Text:

In this particular manuscript, Whitman lists figures such as "Peter the Hermit" and "The Popes."

Justus F. Boyd to Walt Whitman, 18 September 1864

  • Date: September 18, 1864
  • Creator(s): Justus F. Boyd
Text:

very pleaseant City They have two or three Theaters going now I was to one of them last evening they Played

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 September 1864

  • Date: September 11, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ruins)—it was one of those places where the air is full of the scent of low thievery, druggies, foul play

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 June 1864

  • Date: June 18, 1864
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Sometimes we are rather short of grub, and sometimes pretty well played out with hard work, but as long

Rodney R. Worster to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1864

  • Date: March 28, 1864
  • Creator(s): Rodney R. Worster
Text:

merchants all mixed together & on the most friendly terms with each other we have all sorts of sports Ball play

W. A. Jellison to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1864

  • Date: March 9, 1864
  • Creator(s): W. A. Jellison
Text:

would like to see you verry much for I like Uncle Walter verry much now dont think I am trying to play

Alonzo S. Bush to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1864

  • Date: March 7, 1864
  • Creator(s): Alonzo S. Bush
Text:

So you must com down when it gets in full blast a boat will play between here & Washington so it will

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 12 February 1864

  • Date: February 12, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

performers real good—As I write this I have heard in one direction or another two or three good bands playing

Annotations Text:

Some of the men are cooking, others washing, cleaning their clothes, others playing ball, smoking lazily

It is better than any play" (Charles E. Feinberg Collection).

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 28 December 1863

  • Date: December 28, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Peter Kissenbrack" of the state Legislature of /62[)] as comfortable quarters as I ever enjoyed—good

Alonzo S. Bush to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1863

  • Date: December 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): Alonzo S. Bush
Text:

undr her charge While I was there I never Shall forget and that I often think of the games we used to play

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1863

  • Date: December 3, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

For much of 1863 Jesse enjoyed good relations with the Jefferson Whitman family: he played amicably with

Walt Whitman to Elijah Douglass Fox, 21 November 1863

  • Date: November 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

opera or afterward to some supper party or carouse made by the young fellows for me, but what amid the play

William H. McFarland to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1863

  • Date: November 11, 1863
  • Creator(s): William H. McFarland
Text:

it is estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 10 November 1863

  • Date: November 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I have said nothing of Jeannie, she is not as well as I want to see her looking, she is out playing,

Walt Whitman to Lewis K. Brown, 8–9 November 1863

  • Date: November 8–9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I suppose you know that is a performance, a play, all in music & singing, in the Italian language, very

besides she is a tall & handsome lady, & her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 October 1863

  • Date: October 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

His cavalry cut off and outnumbered, the general ordered his two bands to play: "They joined, & played

Walt Whitman to Hugo Fritsch, 8 October 1863

  • Date: October 8, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

with him, & a mild orgie, just for a basis, you know, for talk & interchange of reminiscences & the play

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then the trees and their dark and glistening verdure play their part.

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

  • Date: October 4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

importance in a day—amputations, blood, death are nothing here—you will see a group absorbed [in] playing

Walt Whitman to Thomas P. Sawyer, August 1863

  • Date: August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Well, Tom, it looks as though secesh was nearly played out—if they lose Charleston, as I believe they

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white of the Capitol, fountains playing

The vital play and significance of their talk moves one more than books.

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Haskell, 10 August 1863

  • Date: August 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

he had his fife laying on the little stand by his side—he once told me that if he got well he would play

Annotations Text:

have his fife lying by him on a little stand by his cot, once told me that when he got well he would play

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, the rest cymbals & drums)—I tell you, mother, it made every thing ring—made my heart leap, they played

Fred B. McReady to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1863

  • Date: April 29, 1863
  • Creator(s): Fred B. McReady
Text:

Received by Gels Dix & Smith March 5th Played a match game of Ball with Hawkin Zouaves in which they

the Battle of Newbern, NC, on board of steamboat City of Hudson the officers of the Brigade Mch 24 Played

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 April 1863

  • Date: April 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Annotations Text:

Jeff added that George looked healthy but "played out as regards clothes..."

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1863

  • Date: March 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

He plays the same parts that Amodio used to but possesses the (to me) most wonderful voice, with the

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1863

  • Date: March 9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

made himself shown at about 8 ock in the morning  He is well and looking first rate, pretty well played

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 25 February 1863

  • Date: February 25, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

There is a lot of dead beats that get off by playing sick, but a chap that eats as much and looks as

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 22 January 1863

  • Date: January 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

storm here for the last 48 hours, raining and blowing like great guns, but it appears to be about played

Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 January 1863

  • Date: January 17, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

But more, a new world here I find as I would show—a world full of its separate action, play, suggestiveness—surely

Back to top