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Search : William White

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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

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

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)

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, 14 November 1868

  • Date: November 14, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward. Secretary of State.

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

Evarts to William H. Seward, 14 November 1868

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, [20 May 1887]

  • Date: [May 20, 1887]
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

will like the boys, they will adore you and it will do you and us good all around Yours Talcott Williams

Williams Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, [20 May 1887]

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 11 June 1886

  • Date: June 11, 1886
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

In joy and gratitude at the privilege of being one on whom you rely I am Yours Talcott Williams From

Talcott Williams June '86 (enclosing $8) Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 11 June 1886

Will Williams to Walt Whitman, 31 May 1875

  • Date: May 31, 1875
  • Creator(s): Will Williams
Text:

Very faithfully yours, Will Williams. P.S.

magazine in question will contain contributions by well-known English and American authors. from Will Williams

Will Williams to Walt Whitman, 31 May 1875

Scott & Williams to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1867

  • Date: August 14, 1867
  • Creator(s): Scott & Williams
Text:

OFFICE OF SCOTT & WILLIAMS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 24 BEEKMAN STREET, New York , Aug 14th 186 7 Walt

Your earliest attention will much oblige Yours Respectfully Scott & Williams for Kent P.S.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Beverley Rilett Scott & Williams to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1867

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Gilchrist,1884 . .11^ William Blake.

I WILLIAM BLAKE.

[William] Jan.

William M.

Etty, William, R.

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

Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth (b. 1821)

  • Creator(s): Garrett, Paula K.
Text:

Their home, a small white house in a small town, represented for Whitman idyllic hearth-and-home living

The Artilleryman's Vision.

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

of the rifle balls; I see the shells exploding, leaving small white clouds— I hear the great shells shieking

The Artilleryman's Vision.

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

of the rifle-balls, I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking

The Artilleryman's Vision.

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

of the rifle-balls, I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking

The Veteran's Vision

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

of the rifle balls; I see the shells exploding, leaving small white clouds— I hear the great shells shrieking

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 10 November [1868]

  • Date: November 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

poor little fellow i miss him very much they had the funeral last he was put in a casket lined with white

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.

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [16 or 23 October 1867?]

  • Date: October 16 or 23, 1867?
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

sick so marthe had A doctor she was quite bad for two or three days she was as yellow as gold the white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18–20 June [1873]

  • Date: June 18–20, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a raise of some new summer clothes, real nice—thin black pants & vest, a blue flannel suit, & some white

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1888

  • Date: October 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

rained nearly every day since Sept. 26—the last few days snow with the rain so that the ground has been white

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 7 January 1849

  • Date: January 7, 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

With their superb white horses—the rims of the dash-boards arching over like the necks of serpents—and

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.

William M. Evarts to William Schouler, 24 November 1868

  • Date: November 24, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Schouler. Boston, Mass.

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

Evarts to William Schouler, 24 November 1868

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 13 September 1871

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

Williams, indicted for murder committed within the boundaries of Fort Niagara, and to request that the

Williams No. N. Y.

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Anthony Dreesen Nima Najafi Kianfar Melanie Krupa Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

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

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
Text:

. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 7 October 1871

  • Date: October 7, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

the Attorney of the U.S. for New Mexico, to the Solicitor of the Treasury, relative to the case of William

Bristow, Solicitor General & Acting Attorney General. case of William Knorr New Mex. see p. 219 ante

to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old white

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

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

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

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

bay to notice the vessels arriving, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot- houses pilot-houses , The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! Loud! Loud I call to you my love!

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

bay to notice the vessels arriving, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot- houses pilot-houses , The white

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

A Word Out of the Sea

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

Winds blow South, or winds blow North, Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains

shadows, Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts, The white

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

An Hour Among the Porcelain Manufactories in Greenpoint

  • Date: 3 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, glittering with mica and newly arrived from Connecticut, and here lay small hillocks of the snow white

Then came the door plates with their dark grounds and white letters, and very familiar looked the interesting

We fear that there were more than sufficient “numbers” for church-pews, done in nice white and gold letters

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

Epic Structure

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

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

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

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!

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