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Search : William White

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Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1890

  • Date: December 5, 1890
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

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

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

  • Date: December 2, 1880
  • Creator(s): A. Williams
Text:

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

Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

Sunday, September 7, 1890

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

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

Mannahatta.

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

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

The Schools' Holiday

  • Date: 18 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Year of Meteors.

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

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

Mannahatta

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Year of Meteors.

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

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

Walt Whitman to John Flood, Jr., 12 December 1868

  • Date: December 12, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 10 June 1864

  • Date: June 10, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1888

  • Date: June 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 2 February 1872

  • Date: February 2, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 28 September 1848

  • Date: September 28, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Hunkers

  • Creator(s): Green, Charles B.
Text:

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

"From Far Dakota's Cañons" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

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

Mannahatta

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

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

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

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William | Brady, Mathew B.
Text:

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."

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 11 February 1887

  • Date: February 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Charles Eldridge | Charles W. Eldridge
Text:

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.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1885

  • Date: September 5, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

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 .

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

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

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)

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1889

  • Date: March 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

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

Friday, June 13, 1890

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

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.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: Visit to Brooklyn

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

several of the other pilots mentioned there—John Cole, pilot of the Union, who was a pilot still; George White

, Luther Smith, and Bill White, who died suddenly and alone at his post, in the very chair in which I

Two Visitors

  • Date: 13 September 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Walt Whitman is a man well advanced in years and his snow-white hair and the long white beard which grows

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders orders through a countenance white

, Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt with long white

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

A.T Akerman to William McMichael, 9 November 1871

  • Date: November 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 2 [September] 1890

  • Date: [September] 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Osler, Dr. William (1849–1919)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

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)

Walt Whitman to A. Williams and Company, 30 November 1877

  • Date: November 30, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1876

  • Date: May 2, 1876
  • Creator(s): Charles W. Eldridge
Text:

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?

John Scott and J. P. Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

  • Date: May 24, 1867
  • Creator(s): John Scott and J. P. Williams | John Scott and J.P. Williams
Text:

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

Nassau & William.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

O'Connor (Calder), Ellen ("Nelly") M. Tarr (1830–1913)

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

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.

Sunday, March 10, 1889

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

B. then said gravely: "We must not forget, Walt, that William is living right on the edge of the grave—that

W. again: "Surely, surely: William started out auspiciously, dynamically: never dissipated in any way

I interrupted—"You said that of the white man the other day."

Wednesday, May 8, 1889

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

O'Connor said if William ever recovered consciousness he would no doubt enjoy W.'

I had a postal from Washington this morning of rather dark import—telling me my dear friend William O'Connor

W. bantered with him: "You will get a good apron—a nice clean white apron—and be given a harp or what-not—and

Monday, December 21, 1891

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

which I now took.At the Bank a whole string of visitors and inquirers, among them Brinton, Frank Williams

The ground is white but not enough snow to make decent sleighing which is aggravating.

leaving him and taking a very brief run in on Billstein, I hurried towards Camden, meeting Frank Williams

Tuesday, May 27, 1890

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

Every day or two the picturesque figure of the great, shaggy beard, blowing in the breeze, the huge white

Talcott Williams hails from Springfield."—And then by some reference to T.

W.Talcott Williams's connection with the Press: "Of the man Calvin Wells, and that other, Charles Emery

Civil War, The [1861–1865]

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
Text:

Here he settled into a rooming house where an acquaintance, William Douglas O'Connor, was staying with

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Wednesday, March 6, 1889

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

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!

William M. Evarts to A. W. Randall, 25 January 1869

  • Date: January 25, 1869
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to William McMichael, 27 December 1871

  • Date: December 27, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Nelson Jabo to Adeline Jabo, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): Nelson Jabo
Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Annotations Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Sweet flag

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

the "tooth of delight" and "tooth prong") may relate to the following passage in the same poem: "The white

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 15 December 1863

  • Date: December 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

White & Company, 1904], 7:206).

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1878

  • Date: January 24, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Thomas B. Freeman to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1877

  • Date: February 1, 1877
  • Creator(s): Thomas B. Freeman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:32, 36, and 56.

Walt Whitman to Edward Cattell, 24 January 1877

  • Date: January 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 7 April 1887

  • Date: April 7, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

They were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New Jersey, where Whitman visited them on

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)

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones Growing among black folks as among white

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