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Search : William White

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García Lorca, Federico (1898–1936)

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

White. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Gibson, Ian. Federico García Lorca: 2.

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Or white-domed capitol with majestic figure surmounted, or all the old high-spired cathedrals, That little

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

  • Date: November 28, 1873
  • Creator(s): George A. White
Text:

Whitman, Mrs White Today—Nov 28th 73—acknowledges the receipt of twenty five dollars on account from

White George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

George E. Dodge to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1880

  • Date: November 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): George E. Dodge
Text:

WHITE PINE TIMBER AND LUMBER TO ORDER. OFFICE, NO. 72 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK. GE, MEIGS & CO.

George E. Sears to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1890

  • Date: February 1, 1890
  • Creator(s): George E. Sears
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

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

George Henry Williams to Walt Whitman, 30 June 1874

  • Date: June 30, 1874
  • Creator(s): George Henry Williams
Text:

Williams Attorney General. letter of dismissal from Attorny Gen's Office— Dismissal July 1, 1874 George

Henry Williams to Walt Whitman, 30 June 1874

George Parsons Lathrop to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1885

  • Date: March 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): George Parsons Lathrop
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 July 1863

  • Date: July 23, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

The skirmish was kept up untill about daylight on the morning of the 17th when a white flag was run up

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 24 February 1865

  • Date: February 24, 1865
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

I drew 2 months pay to day and bought a new suit of clothes and now I feel something like a white man

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 August 1864

  • Date: August 30, 1864
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Walt has asked several times if Williams (who was with Fred McCready ) was captured when the ambulance

train was attacted,  Williams is here with his Company,  he says when the guerillas ordered the train

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 February 1862

  • Date: February 9, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

gun  another lay badly wounded  a few feet further in the bushes lay an old man with beard perfectly white

just dying  the top of his head being shot off  a little way from these we met a dozen rebels with a white

George William Foote to Walt Whitman, [February or March 1878]

  • Date: February or March 1878
  • Creator(s): George William Foote
Text:

Foote George William Foote to Walt Whitman, [February or March 1878]

German-speaking Countries, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

He read William M.

German-American researcher and educator Karl Knortz and the Irish-nationalist philologist Thomas William

Gilchrist, Anne Burrows (1828–1885)

  • Creator(s): Alcaro, Marion Walker
Text:

After Alexander's death in 1861, with the help of his friends William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Englishwoman who fell passionately in love with Walt Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass, lent to her by William

And to William Sloane Kennedy he wrote that with Anne "you did not have to abate the wing of your thought

Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)

  • Creator(s): Alcaro, Marion Walker
Text:

However, in the winter that the Gilchrists spent in New York (1878–1879), he studied under William Merritt

Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

notes on Ralph Waldo Emerson; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Edgar Allan Poe; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William

Francis Whiting Halsey. New York: Pott, 1903. Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844–1909)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

instrumental in publishing works by some of America's best writers, among them Henry James, Mark Twain, William

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

  • Date: November 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

purpose, and to thank you as one who has already found a friend in your works faithfully yours Gleeson White

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

  • Date: March 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

Gleeson White Christchurch. Hants England. Mar 4. 1889 My dear Sir.

Faith fully yours Gleeson White see notes Nov. 2 1890 Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

[Going back far enough]

  • Date: 1886
Text:

.00830[Going back far enough]1886prose1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript written by Whitman and sent to William

Good for Governor Walker!

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the Jury-box, vote in all elections, meet us in social intercourse, and intermarry freely with the whites

The doctrine of the perfect equality of the white with the black in all respects whatsoever, social and

The Free State theory is that the West is the white man's land—the land for free independent farmers,

such a State government as will result in large plantations, full of African slaves, crowding out the white

farmer, white emigrant, and white poor family.

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

I remember, as I passed the White House with him one evening, the startled feeling with which I saw a

Open this other book of his, "William Shakespeare," a book with only one grave fault, the omission of

Harlan would consider Walt Whitman white as purity beside him.

Sick and wounded, officers and privates, the black soldiers as well as the white, the teamsters, the

William Douglas O'Connor's "The Good Gray Poet" first appeared as a free-standing pamphlet (New York:

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

The Gospel According to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 25 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Wilde, Oscar
Text:

William Rossetti's attempt to Bowdlerize and expurgate his song.

Grand Buildings in New York City

  • Date: 5 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

avenue, Madison avenue, and tens of streets around and above Union Park, have their palatial houses of white

Such considerations as these make us laugh at the architecture of the New York Custom House, with its white

Gray, Fred (1834–1891)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
Text:

family and visited them, but the connection apparently dissolved in the 1870s.Bibliography Howells, William

Greenport, L. I. June 28th

  • Date: 28 June 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Lord, formerly member of Congress, Frederick William Lord (1800–1860) lived in Greenport and was a member

came a couple of little black fish; after which a real big one, twenty inches long, opening his great white

Whitman refers to Augusta Jane Chapin (1836–1905), Thomas Baldwin Thayer (1812–1886), and William Stevens

Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909)

  • Creator(s): Buckingham, Willis J.
Text:

Edward Everett (1822–1909)Hale, Edward Everett (1822–1909) About Whitman's age and, according to William

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1902. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1985.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dame a drink of water, he, ten months afterwards, frightened the woman half to death, by wrapping a white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

"Half-Breed, The" (1845)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

Arrow-Tip as anticipating Whitman's "friendly and flowing savage" in "Song of Myself " (section 39), and William

New York: Knopf, 1995.Scheik, William J. "Whitman's Grotesque Half-Breed."

halt in the shade

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

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

"Hand-Mirror, A" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

Harlan, James W.

  • Creator(s): Hammond, Joseph P.
Text:

Hubley Ashton, at the behest of Whitman's fiery, combative supporter, William Douglas O'Connor, held

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

Harleigh Cemetery

  • Creator(s): Sill, Geoffrey M.
Text:

Designed by Whitman to resemble the etching of "Death's Door" by William Blake, the tomb was constructed

Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)

  • Creator(s): Mattausch, Dena
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Harper's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
Text:

From comments by George Curtis on Drum-Taps to William Dean Howells's editorial on November Boughs, the

Harrison S. Morris to Walt Whitman, 13 December 1889

  • Date: December 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison S. Morris
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:541).

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 8 September 1891

  • Date: September 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Text:

This was William Potter of Philadelphia, who was one of Wanamaker's Delegate's to the Congress—one of

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1877

  • Date: November 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1877

  • Date: November 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1877

  • Date: July 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1877

  • Date: November 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1878

  • Date: January 24, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1878

  • Date: March 26, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

the 'darkey man' is here yet: and George have their fun has been the about drinking it to his skin white

it all in good part: he asked Van other day, wheather whether the first man on earth was black or white

, and Van told him the first man was white, and then John asked him where the black man came from, and

clothes which I am to have like yours: I have had myself all pictured out with a suit of gray, and a white

Annotations Text:

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

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