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Search : William White

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

morning & especially the drive in the Country where the gardens are now all radiant with blossom—the white

the cherry & the plum (—the plum blossom appears before the leaves) & the sweetly delicate pink & white

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 4 June [1881]

  • Date: June 4, 1881
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

of light, the March-wind blows upon the Wicklow hills; Blows from over the blue Channel, making the white

like a dream again— And again the same hills and rocks, again the Sky, again the blue Channel with white

Thursday, November 22, 1888.

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

"I have been wondering if there may not be a better paper than white for our books," adding: "Has the

havealready been experimenting for centuries—three or four of them—and that this is the result: for white

apper, indisputably for white."

Thursday, July 9, 1891

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

Had patched to the Reeder picture this, written on a slip of white paper: "Beth: Walt Whitman's and parents

was never consulted, and of which he had no more knowledge than any other routine clerk about the White

now repeat that, in obedience to a telegraphic request from President Lincoln, I visited him at the White

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.

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

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

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

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

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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

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

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

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

Sun-Down Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

notice the arriv- ing arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

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

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

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

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

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

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

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

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset —the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Leaves of Grass, 1871–72 edition

  • Creator(s): Mancuso, Luke
Text:

recognize her finds its analogue in the historical agitation in 1871–1872 over the inability of the white

The insurrection of African-American struggles for recognition, as well as the revolt of Southern whites

of Grass can be read as an (unconscious) resistance of Whitman's egalitarian solidarity against the white

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."

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The firm fine-grained meat, white as snow, and of indescribable sweetness, of a good-sized blue-fish,

Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively

Compositor; a typesetter. the flashing of the white bones in the sunlight, and the ornamental flourishes

very voracious creature; so voracious that, instead of a bait, we fasten a piece of bone, or even a white

Annotations Text:

Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

William White, 3 vols. [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:263). 28.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:676. 15.

White, William. “More about the ‘Publication’ of the First Leaves of Grass.”

White, William. “The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Cop- ies?”

White, William. “An Unknown Whitman ms on the 1855 Leaves.”

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

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]

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

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, [1880]

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 20 October 1868

  • Date: October 20, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As I write, we are expecting a call from William O'C. as he promised yesterday to come over & see Mrs

—Later—2 o'clock—William & Dr.

been over here— staid stayed to dinner—We had quite a gay time—indeed quite a little dinner party—William

illustrious self—We are just through—Doctor has gone home, not wishing to leave Jeannie too long—William

More about William Blake

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

More about William Blake—I met R.W.

More about William Blake

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

Deshae E.LottO'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]Walt Whitman met

William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985.Loving, Jerome.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White pine abounds in the northern part, and white and red oak on the coast.

Roger Williams, First Settler of Rhode Island.

Both of these monuments are of white marble.

Along the White River, the St.

The name of William B.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5–7 [July] 1889

  • Date: [July] 5–7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

A Whitman Chronology

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Blod gett, Arthur Golden, and William White.)

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. EPF Early Poetry and Fiction.Ed.

William B.

White, William. "An Unknowri Check for Ed Whitman's Board." Walt Whitman Review 22 (June 1976): 91.

William, 85 Cottage Fund, 130, 156 Chapin, William, 73 Cox, G.

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]

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William W. Belknap, 19 May 1870

  • Date: May 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

1870, returning for the temporary use of the War Department, the papers in the case of the claim of William

Field, I regard this request for an opinion, so far as it relates to the claim of William Webster for

Elizabeth Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William

Walt Whitman by J. C. Tarisse?, ca. 1869

  • Date: ca. 1869
  • Creator(s): Tarisse, J. C.
Text:

The lines in this MS poem could also refer to "Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

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

, ca. 1867–1870"; William Kurtz was a master of shadow in his portraits, which gained a reputation of

Putnam's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerPutnam's MonthlyPutnam's MonthlyFounded in New York by George Palmer Putnam and

In January 1868 Putnam's new series contained an effort by William D.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

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

Saturday, July 25, 1891

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

See, Anne—see the boats—the white sails. And you think, Horace, we can't get along the shore here?

"Any manuscript of William's has an interest for me." He did not seem exhausted on return.

The Good Grey Poet

  • Date: 4 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

among a very few, and was only beginning to make its way into England, chiefly owing to the help of William

heavy-lidded firm blue eyes, which had a steadfast and dreamy regard; a short thick grey beard almost white

Leaves of Grass, 1856 edition

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

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

I know as well as

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

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7–10 August [1870]

  • Date: August 7–10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

blue sky—a grand sight—& the beautiful yachts & pleasure boats, lots & lots of them, with immense white

Annotations Text:

Daily Morning Chronicle of August 7, 1870, noted an accident on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at White

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1891

  • Date: February 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

In "The Colonel, at Home, in Sonoma County" (Overland, 17 [February, 1891], 200–208), Laura Lyon White

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [1867?]

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

Attorney General's Office , Washington 186 William: The " Citizen " has the Carol complete, & exactly

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [1867?]

Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition

  • Creator(s): Marki, Ivan
Text:

As William White has shown, 795 copies were printed in all, 599 of which were bound in cloth with varying

White, William. "The First (1855) Leaves of Grass: How Many Copies?"

George H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 10 March 1873

  • Date: March 10, 1873
  • Creator(s): George H. Williams | Horace Traubel
Text:

Williams, Attorney General. George H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 10 March 1873

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