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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, [13 April 1887]

  • Date: [April 13, 1887]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He was born in Havana, where his father used to play the fiddle for home amusement.

The lad began playing when he was but little taller than his father's fiddle.

Walt was mightily pleased with the music, and the Chevalier played some more. Meantime, W. H.

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 3 May 1887

  • Date: May 3, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

bird is singing—the cars are puffing & rattling, & the children of the neighborhood are all outdoors playing—So

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 13 June [1887]

  • Date: June 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

thing is so beautiful & peaceful in the nearly declined but dazzling sun—The little children are playing

mostly strawberries) I see glimpses of a fine sunset in the west & the boys out in Mickle Street are playing

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 August 1887

  • Date: August 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Davidson's review of Ignatius Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

, which argued that Shakespeare's plays had been written by Francis Bacon.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. Harned, 7 November [1887?]

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

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

stores, Customs, costumes, churches, theatres, looks And lingoes all are vanished, are Gone, are played

Knock Out the resonant, brassy Notes, and prattle along like A lad at play, while ever and Anon sweet

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

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

Age 48— 51. new country — Description of Philadelphia— Edward The Carpenter — Walt Whitman at the play

Round the Priory we findart and nature playing into each other's hands.

A fondness for music was soon to show itself;an announcement ,that her mistress would play asonata of

Tennyson is all that he said. having men- tioned that they had just come over from Peters- field, and

His play ought to be worth reading and seeing.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1888

  • Date: January 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 January 1888

  • Date: January 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Walt Whitman's Advice to the State Scholars

  • Date: February 1888
  • Creator(s): Cessator
Text:

characters are individualistic; they let out what they have in them; they give themselves full sweep and play

Sophia Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1888

  • Date: February 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sophia Williams
Annotations Text:

Orchestra, a popular touring ensemble conducted by the renowned conductor Theodore Thomas (1835–1905), played

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1888

  • Date: March 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Annotations Text:

See Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808), Epilogue to Joseph Addison's 1713 play Cato, written for a 1778

production of the play in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: "No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, / But

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 14 April 1888

  • Date: April 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Text:

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the play following the

Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1888

  • Date: April 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Last night I saw Bronson Howard's play—Henrietta—Robson & Crane chief actors.

A very useful play—satire on Wall Street.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7 May 1888

  • Date: May 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1888

  • Date: May 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

He played numerous parts during his career, including taking on a number of Shakespearean roles, sometimes

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 May 1888

  • Date: May 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1888

  • Date: June 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Dear Walt Whitman, These last days have been so crowded with work & play, that there has been no fair

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 June 1888

  • Date: June 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

background on Harned's trip to the Republican National Convention in Chicago and the political issues at play

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 July 1888

  • Date: July 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

book" in England (probably The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1888

  • Date: July 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888

  • Date: July 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

He is certainly the winter of my discontent mentioned by Lord Bacon in his play of Richard III.

Annotations Text:

works came under scrutiny during the nineteenth-century because of suspicions that he had written plays

For more on the Baconian theory, see Henry William Smith, Was Lord Bacon The Author of Shakespeare's Plays

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 July 1888

  • Date: July 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 August 1888

  • Date: August 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Press About six weeks ago the children on Mickle street, below Fifth street, in Camden, were asked to play

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1888

  • Date: August 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

A Reminiscence of New York Plays and Acting Fifty Years Ago," appeared in November Boughs (1888), along

Annie Nathan Meyer to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1891

  • Date: January 12, 1891
  • Creator(s): Annie Nathan Meyer
Annotations Text:

Brander Matthews (1852–1929) was a prolific American writer and critic who wrote novels, plays, short

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 29 August 1888

  • Date: August 29, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1888

  • Date: August 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 7 September 1888

  • Date: September 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

Then fortunately it cleared up and we began driving & playing tennis, I went fishing with our vicar's

Mariechen and Frank Costelloe & I however have been reading one of Sophocles' plays to-gether.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 September 1888

  • Date: September 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Bucke is referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragic play, published in 1808.

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1888

  • Date: October 1, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

Logan & Frank & I are also reading a little Greek together, & our spare time we give to play— Mary Whitall

Walt Whitman Again

  • Date: 25 October 1888
  • Creator(s): Rogers, George
Text:

and feelings and ideas that they have taken at second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1888

  • Date: November 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

He published several collections of poetry, and a number of plays and novels.

James Scovel to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1888

  • Date: November 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): James Scovel
Text:

I met Maurice Barrymore, the actor who was playing in "Held by the Enemy" at the Academy last week.

Annotations Text:

champion before taking up acting; he emigrated to the United States and debuted in Augustin Daly's play

A play by William Gillette (1853–1937), set during the Civil War, and now recognized as having a significant

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1888

  • Date: November 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

After the exile's turkey & plum pudding—we had to do without the pumpkin pie of course—we gave a play

The play was really very funny, especially as it was a take off on some of our friends, whom Mariechen

We half expected, as the play went on that the socialists, politicians, & aesthetics in the audience

Whitman's November Boughs

  • Date: 8 December 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He has taught, as far as his voice has reached, that literature is something more than a playing with

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

She was known for her remarkable ability to inhabit classical roles (in plays by Voltaire, Corneille,

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 27 December 1888

  • Date: December 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

see an old friend, 72 yrs. years of age—who is very badly down with heart disease—an old harpist —plays

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 January 1889

  • Date: January 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) was a Russian realist writer of novels, plays, short stories and

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1889

  • Date: January 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

Fabians played a key role in founding the Labour party in 1990 and have a commitment to non-violent political

Walt Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 19 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison, W.
Text:

Tennyson' (originally published in this journal, together with 'What Lurks behind Shakspeare's Historical Plays

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1889

  • Date: January 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Annotations Text:

Fabians played a key role in founding the Labour party in 1990 and have a commitment to non-violent political

Walt Whitman's Latest Work

  • Date: 9 February 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

, after several more short essays, including "The Bible as Poetry," "What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Plays

new world receives with joy the poems of the antique, with European feudalism's rich fund of epics, plays

The Library

  • Date: March 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Tennyson;" "Slang in America;" "Father Taylor and Oratory;" "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

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