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Search : William White

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Saturday, December 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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always talk like this: that I love O'Connor for doing exactly the opposite thing: so I do: I like William

I said: "You speak of William and Dowden: I don't think that the difference between them is the difference

Bucke says William goes on and Dowden stands still.

William goes on, sure enough: but if Dowden stands still how is it he ever came to recognize you?"

I for my part am rather more disposed to William's than to John's estimate, characterization, of Hugo

Sunday, December 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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that is so: I believe this girl went to Mary Morris—William Morris's daughter—who has a genius, they

Monday, December 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Morse, Kennedy, John, William—all silent!"

It did once stand in front of the President's house—the White House: now I hear it has been removed.

Tuesday, December 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I took Alexander Gardner's sheet—the title page: it had quite a good deal of white paper: wrote a long

William was very furious about it: it was bandied about Washington—got into the papers: William asked

That was William: I suppose he was right: I needed only to make a simple public statement: I would be

I submit here the document prepared for William by W. and passed into my hands since by Nellie O'Connor

Dear William O'Connor:As you were interested in Mr.

Wednesday, December 5, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Walsh—(brother of William, of Lippincott's). Doctors examined W.'

Monday, December 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Indeed, The Tribune's is the animating spirit of all that class in New York: Stoddard, William Winter—these

Tuesday, December 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Also Talcott Williams. Much talk of W. Gilchrist took part in the discussion.

Wednesday, December 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams over. Did not see W. Gilchrist came later: was in bedroom a few minutes.

But then, where is there anybody like William?

William made short work of the hair splitters.

Chadwick got on the wrong field when he called William a liar and crossed blades with him: William gave

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

Thursday, December 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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A little the odor of wood: the light flickering upon the wall, the bed white and clean.

Friday, December 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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happen to be thought worth while to have the history of Leaves of Grass written the correspondence of William

the other side of the Atlantic: we were all intensely excited when these propositions were made: William

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Tebb (Surrey, England). They were greatly disappointed W. not being able to see them.

Sunday, December 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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eight"—pausing, repeating some names: "One for Addington Symonds: one for Buxton Forman: one for William

Monday, December 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yes—surely: for the purposes of that edition that was the best thing to do: yet we lost heaps in losing William

There was another regret from which I have always suffered: I always wished William to figure in some

He held a smallish white unstamped envelope up before me. "This: look at it."

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It looks to me as if William was in for some extreme decision before long—I don't think he can last this

Then: "I am depending upon you to in the main keep our folks informed how I am—John, William, Kennedy

Wednesday, December 19, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Well—I won't say that—though William's letters are always important: but there 'sthere's something in

O'C.W. said: "That 'sThat's one of William's most interesting epistles: oh! those days!

I said: "William From a Photograph by Rockwood & Co.

William talks about Grant turning back. When did he ever turn back?

Then exclaimed: "O William! William! If only our former days and nights could be renewed!

Thursday, December 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As to cover he said again: "Of all things, I should least think of vellum—white vellum especially."

Friday, December 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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When I was through he said: "William says there: 'It will go hard if I cannot make such a cloud belch

He made it belch many thunders: William had unlimited capacity for raising hell: I don't mean that he

John Hay was a great admirer of William—way back there: he said about the same thing Stedman did—said

I think Stedman was a bit afraid of William—was timid—just a bit, befor his vehemence: just as Gilder

always has been: William gets on Watson's nerves—William is so virile, Watson so feminine (I don't mean

Monday, December 24, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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someone writing there (I think it was The Times: it certainly was an English paper): he spoke of William

Thursday, December 27, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. exclaimed: "Good: You ought to say that to William: that 'sthat's one of his pet ideas (and mine too

Saturday, December 29, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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how that sounds like William O'Connor!

If only William O'Connor could hear you talk so!"

Williams, Philadelphia. M. B. W.'s letter with portrait, &c. on the table.

Sunday, December 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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This is the best translation: there is no other approaching it: it is by George William Curtis' wife's

criticisms of value, should such appear.I have not yet seen the February Fortnightly, nor the book William

Monday, December 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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This was his "great concern for William."

But I know what William means: he used to say to me sometimes—'Walt, when it comes to some things you've

But I confess William would go way ahead of me in that direction—was gifted beyond us all: was sensitive

I remember an Othello criticism: undoubtedly written by William Winter: Winter is the dramatic editor

Thursday, January 3, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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After the white woman the negro. "But not universally the negro.

William was always a world of help in these treaties with editors: he was an intercessory force: knew

Some invited, most did n'tdidn't: but whether the one thing or the other, William mediated with his customary

Friday, January 4, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I did not ask him.Frances Emily White speaks at the Club next Tuesday on the Evolution of Ethics.

Saturday, January 5, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"You know Talcott Williams' position on The Press?

Sunday, January 6, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams,Attorney General.IXDepartment of Justice,Washington, June 30, 1874.

Williams,Attorney General.I asked W.: "Are they all the documents in the matter?"

Tuesday, September 4th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams. You know Frank: it's his wife."

William is a man who never needs a prod—is always afire: in fence he is a ways ready—his weapons are

no notion whatever of the author, we should fare better in understanding the work than we do with William

Of all the dear, dear friends of those days, Nellie, William, were dearest, dearest."

Thursday, September 6th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Herbert and Talcott Williams seem to entertain quite a shine for each other.

I said of it "It has a William Morris lay-out." He replied: "Do you say so?

Friday, September 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He hasn't got William's guts: he lacks that first brutality of utterance which goes with the initiators

They proved to be one each from Conway, Hotten, William Michael Rossetti and Trowbridge.

Saturday, September 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The American white and the Southern black will mix but not ally.

Now, the Southern white does not encourage such intermixtures: there are psychological, physiological

They are a study, too—the poor whites South: lank, sallow coughing, spitting, with no bellies (and bellies

Swinburne's new book upon William Blake, poet and artist—a great but neglected genius who was counted

Sunday, September, 9th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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very funny: the fellow who writes the notice (a very good notice it is, too: among the best)—Clarke—William

Monday, September 10th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bartol, William P. Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Ole Bull, L. N. Fairchild, Albert B. Otis, A friend, W. D.

G. van Renssalaer (New York), Charles Eliot Norton, George Fred Williams, J. R. Chadwick, (Mr.)

Friday, September 14th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Ingram—"the dear old Quaker man," W. calls him—wrote this note to W.

We all send much love.From your friend,William Ingram.The bouquet was on the table before W., who remarked

Saturday, September 15th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The Record speaks of Talcott Williams as a free trader in disguise.

"Ingram, Tom—William Ingram: they came down from the country. Let's open one shall we?

Sunday, September 16, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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bleeding to death—(he is shot in the abdomen,) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

Monday, September 17th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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great heat of debate, babble of voices, dissenting discordant opinions—mostly antagonizing Hugo—and William's

concluding symposium piece in The American: The Poetry of Walt Whitman: a Rejoinder, written by Frank Williams

Thursday, September 29th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Doctor is magnificent—I love him (do I love anybody better saving maybe only William?)

Friday, September 21st, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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might not be a good form of Title-page:"Walt Whitman's Poems Selected from the American Editions By William

Saturday, September 22nd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Don't you see, you're a dangerous lot—William, down in Washington, and Bucke, and Horace here, with enough

Sunday, September 23rd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The morning papers published extracts from the Diary of the Emperor Frederick William—cabled from abroad

"Long white hair, long white beard and moustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

They were from Nelly O'Connor, William O'Connor, Cyril Flower, Henry Clapp, Sylvester Baxter, and W.'

Monday, September 24th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke is my only constant correspondent left: William writes very rarely—is not able to write."

When William gets on his real high horse—his high horse of high horses—he completely fills the stage:

"It will bear study: William never loses caste at close quarters: he always more than holds his own."

Wednesday, September 26th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The boulevards stretching miles and miles, white and clean—yes, as far as the eye can reach—make me stop

Thursday, September 27th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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For years past he has seemed to be unable to get adjusted to the immensities of William's perspective

He asked me: "Do you notice that sickness has such different effects on William and John?

John exaggerates his trouble: William, who is much worse off, makes light of it—seems not in the least

He said: "I carry it about in my heart—carry it—yes: and William, too.

William is fresh every day: never seems to get stale with time." Thursday, September 27th, 1888.

Saturday, September 29th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Reddest murder is white to an act like this and its folly is equal to its crime.

William thought it 'a trifle weak', but I don't think it so. I can't always be a roaring lion!"

Monday, October 1st, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "That's Talcott's piece—he wrote it: Talcott Williams.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The Introduction is written by William O'Connor.

proposition, to which I mailed an immediate answer, to the same effect as herewith.Accept my thanks for the William

Thursday, October 4th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Well—here is a letter of William's connected with the same affair: you had better take it and put the

Saturday, October 6th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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You would not guess such a thing from William's appearance.

If you do go, you must see William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless Dante Rossetti

Monday, October 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams over today.

be your debtor.Jessie Taylor.The Press yesterday contained some further extracts from Frederick William's

as well as calm: more than once seen him when his whole being was shaken up—when his passion was at white

There's my friend William Swinton, John's brother: I used to be very intimate with him: he has suffered

a good deal of a traveler, wanderer—was in California at the time, I think)—twenty-five years ago William

Thursday, October 11th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William's letter was indeed brief.Life Saving Service,Washington, D.

William was in a trifling measure afflicted in the same way.

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