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Search : William White

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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

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."

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 November 1890

  • Date: November 8, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Gleeson White, an Englishman whom Whitman described as a "middle-aged man very gentlemanly & pleasant

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:575.

White had requested permission to visit in his letter of November 2, 1890.

Monday, August 17, 1891

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

Yes, William was a choice debater.

William was ardent, impulsive—yet no man spoke out of a greater knowledge.

William was choked with a various knowledge—always spoke out of that.

William was even—his passion, fire, always lasted.

William always came in with great splendor.

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

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

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
Text:

Douglas's bill was perceived as a threat by Northern abolitionists and working class whites because it

"To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
Text:

The poem's parenthetical concluding lines offer a milder version of the essay's call for young, white

Wednesday, May 6, 1891

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

Gave me a copy of Black and White (England)—"They can't touch our illustrators—can't reach the edge of

If I should need to name, O Western World!

  • Date: October 25, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spasmic geyser‑loops ascending to the skies, ap— pearing appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white

Year of Meteors.

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

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

Longings for Home.

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Come Up From the Fields, Father.

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

the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio, with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; Tears—not

Come Up From the Fields Father.

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

now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

O Magnet-South.

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

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

O Magnet-South.

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

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

Longings for Home

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers, The range afar—the richness

Longings for Home

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

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Year of Meteors (1859-60)

  • Date: 1867
  • 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

Come Up From the Fields Father.

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

now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 December [1873]

  • Date: December 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

blue shirt collar turned down low with a nice black silk neck handkerchief, tied loose—over a clean white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1891

  • Date: May 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

We send you the Review of Reviews & Black & White P.P.S.

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.

The Police Contest

  • Date: 22 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We have his aim now set before us in black and white.

Douglas and Buchanan

  • Date: 8 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In order to render the Senator's re-election hopeless, the crafty inhabitant of the White House turned

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 17 June [1876]

  • Date: June 17, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

well as usual these times—am now just going down to an old farm house & big family, down in Jersey at White

Albert G. Knapp to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1876

  • Date: April 2, 1876
  • Creator(s): Albert G. Knapp
Text:

appearance & seemingly past the middle age since his hair & face beard were plentifully sprinkled with white

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 3 March [1874]

  • Date: March 3, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

go out for about an hour generally about noon, with my cane, (& accompanied by my little yellow & white

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

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)

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.

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, [1880]

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

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

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 to Susan Stafford, 30 July 1889

  • Date: July 30, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

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.

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

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

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

More about William Blake

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

More about William Blake—I met R.W.

More about William Blake

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]

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

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

William White 1978 D-T Drum-Taps (New York: 1865 ) and Sequel to Drum-Taps (Washington: 1865-6 ).

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White 1980 NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed.

From Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; from Langston

Whitman's grandmother Amy Williams Van Velsor was especially committed to her Quaker beliefs, and her

He sometimes dreaded slave labor as a "black tide" that could overwhelm white working men.

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

William Carey to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888

  • Date: July 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Carey
Text:

Yours sincerely William Carey Wm Carey William Carey to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888

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.

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]

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

William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 11 May 1865

  • Date: May 11, 1865
  • Creator(s): William T. Otto | Horace Traubel
Text:

William T. Otto, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. William T. Otto to Walt Whitman, 11 May 1865

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