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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

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

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 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

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

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."

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.

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

Notes on Whitman's Photographers

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

William Kurtz : 1834–1904, born and raised in Germany.

William S. Pendleton : New York and Brooklyn photographer.

Phillips (1843–1911) and William Curtis Taylor (1825–1905) ever were partners.

Sophia Williams : 1850–1928.

Williams was a writer and the wife of the editor of the Philadelphia Press , Talcott Williams, whom Whitman

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

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

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

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

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

rebel against their owners, setting fire to a building near Broadway, and threatening to kill any whites

Three beads of black and six of white were equivalent, among the English, to a penny, and among the Dutch

Here the aboriginal money circulated,—small polished shells, some white, some black, strung on the sinews

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Walter, William T. "Long Island." In , edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, 3–14.

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 14 April 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Hinton
Text:

The white beard—so singularly clear and pure and silken in aspect and texture makes nobly venerable the

The arched eyebrows are also white, like bows of driven snow.

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

saturnine-looking business man named Houston—at least to me he seemed what I say—was in the handsome white

and soft, almost roseate-hued face, with the tired but still affectionate eyes, all framed in the white

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, 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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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

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 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

"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

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