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Williams Martha B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1884

Yours, Very Respectfuly, WILLIAM L. DeLACEY, Poughkeepsie, New York. William L.

eminent and distinguished subject-matter: Lowell's 'Choice Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets,' in a setting of white

had been battle flags Pioneers with axes on shoulders the crowds the perfect day—the clear sky—the white

—he was called "Doctor"; wore a white cravat; was deaf, tall, apparently rheumatic, and slept most of

Are you not from the white blanched heads of the old mothers of mothers?

We stepped in for a few moments at the depot of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners in White street

sea The corn now 3 feet high is in full ear the fields are all bordered with wildflowers—yellow & white

great deal of the educated coloured people at Boston—was at the meeting of a literary club—the only white

The reverend clergy are off, some of them to Europe, some to the White Mountains, the lakes and other

jove though we havent haven't seen the sun here for one, two, three, four days: a solid impenetrable white

The streets have broken out into an eruption of white indispensables and hot weather caput-coverings,

Clearest sky I ever saw—norwest quite purple—Snow white on roofs and posts—Lake steaming, seething, cold-compressed—freezing—unusual

The white population predominates here enough to free us from the unpleasantness experienced in other

great arm-chair—as during my visits a year ago,—a never failing friendly presence behind the black-&-white

activeness also recalls the wrestling apprentices in "I Sing the Body Electric" (1855), the kind of young white

viewed the extension of slavery as detrimental to American democracy and as unfair competition for white

New York: Bliss and White, 1825. Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

Thursday P M Oct: 9 '84 My dear Williams I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper

usual—only very lame— Walt Whitman Have the proof read carefully by copy Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams

These letters shed particular light on Whitman's relationship with William Michael Rossetti, the Gilchrist

The collection also includes correspondence with her children and Whitman's 1869 letter to Michael William

Literary correspondents include John Burroughs, William Sloane Kennedy, Bernard O'Dowd, Richard Maurice

Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel, Henry Bryan Binns, Mary Mapes Dodge, William Dean Howells

, William Douglass O'Connor, and John Addington Symonds.

Do you know whether Amy Williams, or her husband, was of Welsh descent?

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1890

William I wish to send a little box of grapes to Nelly—please go down to the Central Produce store on

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D.

As I told you, I was profoundly impressed by a couple of articles in the Fortnightly Review by Sir William

In the best health, we grow lean, Sir William Thompson says, like a man training for the ring.

How can white think well of black? And then, the anti-copperhead talk is still rampant here.

Brinton thinks inter-marriage would deteriorate the white race.

expresses affection for the fellows—with a particular word for Brinton and Morris—and concern for Frank Williams

Talcott Williams present at Penn Club. The main thing—the cordiality mixed with entire freedom.

Frank Williams had sent him a copy. Said he had enjoyed it.

Even William O'Connor, who, of all men, you would think protected, exempt, bore traces of it, from head

I should thank Frank Williams for his American note—"Tell him it is just what I could have hoped for—to

Williams in to see me about newspaper friends of W. W.

One of the "points of value" in Williams' paragraph was "the quite evident kindliness—the willingness

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

He and a younger brother, named from his swiftness the Deer, frequently had intercourse with the white

William M. Evarts, Esq. Dear Sir: I have just received a telegram from Mr.

Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Orville Hickman Browning to William

William McMichael, Esq. Solicitor of Internal Revenue.

Akerman to William McMichael, 23 March 1871

I am Faithfully yours, William H. Rideing To Walt Whitman, Esq. William H.

Dear William, Mr.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 10 January [1867?]

328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem

writing to you I enclose the rec't for the Red Jacket bit — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams

Dear William, I wish you to come & take Thanksgiving Dinner with us to-morrow. Mrs.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D.

Camden Friday Evn'g Evening Sept: September 22 Dear William O'Connor This is the best I can do about

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 22 September [1882]

L INCOLN never reposes at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location

there, (I think the light is extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white

We have put the draft through, have conscribed a goodly lot of whites, blacks and Secessionists; and

some badly wounded—and, perhaps, never to rise thence,) the cots themselves, with their drapery of white

not this deed, (or rather copy,) of itself show title out of the State to preclude the grant to Williams

This will so bar the State that it could not make a valid grant to Williams.

I am not sure but that the Government ought to eject Williams by military force; but such measures are

Charles Eldridge is to be transferred to Boston—I am indeed sorry, on my own account, & yours & Williams

very good objections to that course, but the reasons in favor are far stronger) Dear Nelly, you & William

heart—few attachments wear & last through life, but ours must Good bye, dear Nelly, & good bye, dear William

Harvard, but his apparent silence in the face of abusive attacks in the press by Whitman's defender, William

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

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

William is here—which adds much indeed to the pleasure of my visit—William has not recovered from an

My last letter to William was also to you—though I suppose you did not see it yet.

William M. Evarts, Attorney General. Windsor, Vermont.

Hubley Ashton to William M. Evarts, 3 August 1868

William W. Marshall, Ass't Att'y Gen'l.

Akerman to William McMichael, 6 November 1871

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. late 1860s This photo is usually dated 1860, but Kurtz did not open

endorsed by WW: "Walt Whitman 1869" (which Henry Saunders misread as "1860").For more information on William

William has recovered his mental balance, and is once more rational; as he says, the "hallucinations"

no one can realize how often I have to run from one thing to another, nor how much care I have of William

Attorney General's Office Washington , 18 Dear William— Come down a moment & have lunch with me—a biscuit

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

In his satirical review of William Douglas O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet in the Round Table, Stoddard

Whitman speculated that Stoddard and New York Tribune drama critic William Winter had collaborated on

O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

Rev. of The Good Gray Poet, by William Douglas O'Connor. Round Table 3 (1866): 37. Whitman, Walt.

William N. Clark, Esq. Benton City, Mo.

Pleasants to William N. Clark, 31 January 1870

William McMichael, Esq. Philadelphia, Penn.

Akerman to William McMichael, 18 March 1871

Please let me know as above Yours cordially Talcott Williams Sands—20 | Good Bye 20 | Backward Glance

18 Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 14 September 1891

Said he had no word from Talcott Williams yet anent Reisser colloquy—"my type-written copy" he called

W. laughing, "I think William O'Connor had a good deal to do with that, a good deal, though Stedman is

William had the same determination plus a certain native genius—just as determined guns, though with

William had an immense virile conviction which it was hard to oppose."

But William had no such intellectual power as we see in Bob—though he was not a fool, either: had it

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen Henry Stanbery to William

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 30 December 1867