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"I Hear America Singing" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Mignon, Charles W.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Introduction.

Bradley, Blodgett, Golden, and White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. xv–xxv.Duncan, Isadora.

Columbus, Christopher (ca. 1451–1506)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942.Shurr, William H.

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 29 December 1890

  • Date: December 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good oak fire—appetite, digestion, sleep &c might be much worse—cold—sun shining out to-day on the white

snow — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 29 December 1890

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 12 April [1886]

  • Date: April 12, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Opera House—the actors & journalists have tendered me a sort of benefit—Thomas Donaldson and Talcott Williams

this morning —I am looking for your little book —Good weather here— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Annotations Text:

White, even at my expense."

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 14 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

within him by Wordsworth's "Excursion," on the first appearance of that poem in 1814, and by the "White

William Wordsworth (1770-1850) published The Excursion in 1814, a collection of philosophical monologues

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.

Annotations Text:

"White Doe of Rylston" was a long narrative poem published in 1815.; The Edinburgh Review, an influential

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 July [1874]

  • Date: July 10, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whites. —I will write further about it—I have not heard any thing from Eldridge, or Mrs.

Annotations Text:

White, Whitman's landlady (see the letter from Whitman to Charles Eldridge of October 13, 1873), had

White offered to purchase Whitman's bedstead and certain other effects.

White wrote again on October 6 and offered him a credit of $10 for his furnishings against a balance

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William

White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978).

it is of limited interest and value (e.g., Whitman's factual notes on geography in volume 5); even William

White questioned whether lists of melons and other meaningless or only partially legible fragments should

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. ____.

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

comrades" ("These I Singing in Spring") formed loving friendships with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William

influence of his friends in the Attorney General's office in the Treasury building, adjacent to the White

He relied on his married friends, William and Ellen O'Connor, and John and Ursula Burroughs, to provide

William O'Connor's advocacy of Negro suffrage and Whitman's indifference bordering on hostility was the

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight.

Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 22 September 1883

  • Date: September 22, 1883
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor | Horace Traubel
Text:

I am in great mourning that I can't get my reply to Richard Grant White on the Bacon-Shakespeare matter

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 22 September 1883

Street Yarn

  • Date: 16 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Rusty black costume; white choker; look oddly compounded of severity, superiority, curiosity, apprehension

Dirty finery, excessively plentiful; paint, both red and white; draggle-tailed dress, ill-fitting; coarse

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

A well-built, portly old man, full, ruddy face, abundant wavy—almost frizzly—white hair, good forehead

It is the firm of William C.

Annotations Text:

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 24 February 1868

  • Date: February 24, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—We have had a snowy day—as I look out of my window the ground is white in every direction—William has

Swinburne, the poet, has sent me a handsome copy of his William Blake containing certain mention of me

Sculptors and Sculpture

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
Text:

Whitman much preferred Morse's bust to the painted portraits of either John White Alexander or Herbert

In the last year of Whitman's life Samuel Murray and William R.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

Painters and Painting

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
Text:

larger and more established American Art Union, whose president in the mid-1840s was Whitman's friend, William

A black and white print of Eakins's gripping Gross Clinic, given him by the painter, graced Whitman's

completion of the portrait and painted portraits of several Whitman associates, including Talcott Williams

Two of Eakins's associates, sculptors William R.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies

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

William A.PannapackerAssociations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and SocietiesAssociations, Clubs,

Whitman's American admirers—William D.

Johnston, John, and James William Wallace.

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

White, William.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 6 February 1891

  • Date: February 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—write often as convenient God bless you & Frau & my Boston friends— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:585.

"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Lulloff, William G.
Text:

William G.Lulloff"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)"Mannahatta [I was asking...]" (1860)Walt Whitman's

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

"To the Sun-Set Breeze" (1890)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Correspondent Breeze," by Dwight Kalita, who connects it to the poems of other romantic poets, notably William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Frederick A. Stokes to Walt Whitman, 30 April 1887

  • Date: April 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Frederick A. Stokes
Text:

STOKES, Successor to WHITE, STOKES, & ALLEN, PUBLISHERS, STATIONERS, AND IMPORTERS, 182 Fifth Avenue,

Annotations Text:

See Whitman's letter to White, Stokes, & Allen of April 29, 1887.

Browne and published by White, Stokes & Allen in 1886.

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

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

Sunday, November 2, 1890

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

about it, "It ought to be worth hearing: it must have great points," and this led him to refer to William

Would give me a copy to send on.Attention called to old note from Gleeson White (abroad).

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

"Faces" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

sometimes enigmatic, lyric is a testimonial to Whitman's faith in mankind and his belief that "red, white

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Faces" (1855)

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

"Thought of Columbus, A" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1886

  • Date: April 19, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

O'Connor, Stedman, Knortz & Whiting &c. are helping me on it.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1886

Annotations Text:

Perhaps Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), an American writer and journalist.

Bibliographies

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

White's "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay" (1985); Donald D.

William Peterfield Trent et al. Vol. 3. New York: Putnam, 1918. 551–581.[Kebabian, Paul, et al.].

New York: New York Public Library, 1953.Kennedy, William Sloane.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist."

Chesley Mathews, 445–451.White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay."

Walt Whitman to White, Stokes & Allen, 29 April 1887

  • Date: April 29, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

just reached me—Please send this to F F Browne with my best respects— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to White

Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: White, Stokes & Allen | Publishers | New York City.

Browne and published by White, Stokes & Allen in 1886.

"Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

"As Adam Early in the Morning" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 13 April 1888

  • Date: April 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. & Alice are going to London to live— a big bunch of white lilies scents the room & my little canary

singing gaily as I finish— Walt Whitman If you have a chance you may show this to Mary Costelloe & Wm William

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 7 April 1869

  • Date: April 7, 1869
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in disgust —it is quite a curiosity to see them around the Departments, in the hotels, and at the White

House & Capitol— The O'Connors are well as usual—William is still in the Treasury Dept Department —I

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 2 December 1890

  • Date: December 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

City Sloane Kennedy, Belmont, Mass: David McKay, Publisher, 23 south 9th st Philadelphia Talcott Williams

gloomy blue week here—death of my brother Jeff six days ago at St Louis, Missouri—Cold weather here—all white

[We have read with attention]

  • Date: 1 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

William Leete Stone (1793–1844) was described in an 1856 biographical sketch as "the editor and one of

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Annotations Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Vaughan, Frederick B. [ca. 1837-1893]

  • Creator(s): Shively, Charley
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982. Whitman, Walt.

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" (1861)

  • Creator(s): Schwiebert, John E.
Text:

.: Harvard UP, 1987.White, William. "'Beat! Beat! Drums!' The First Version."

Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

"Old Age's Lambent Peaks" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Swinton's Rambles among Words , means "white man."

Wasn't he a white man?

has it—both white and black, both slave and master.

in American culture is white.

But the trapper is by no means unambiguously white.

Orville Hickman Browning to John McAllister Schofield, 22 June 1868

  • Date: June 22, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

It is confidently believed and averred that if two whites, felons, malefactors, and outlaws, had fallen

"From these proceedings, it will appear that the said Isaac Owens was regularly in charge of said William

killing, when the infuriated mob of freedmen were about to take Isaac Owens away to kill him, our white

Old Land Marks

  • Date: 18 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This "constitution" allowed suffrage for all white (domestic and naturalized) males over twenty-one.

until 1843 that there was a new official state constitution that dropped the property requirement for white

The liberal party sided with Thomas Dorr, who advocated for suffrage for all white males (see previous

Annotations Text:

This "constitution" allowed suffrage for all white (domestic and naturalized) males over twenty-one.

until 1843 that there was a new official state constitution that dropped the property requirement for white

no.1 (1955), 24–50.; The liberal party sided with Thomas Dorr, who advocated for suffrage for all white

Orville Hickman Browning to Andrew Johnson, 28 March 1868

  • Date: March 28, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

that at the recent February term of the Circuit of the United States for the District of Kentucky, William

The prisoner is a white person and the deceased was a negro.

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)

Long Island Democrat

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Critic, 17 June 1886

  • Date: June 17, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Critic, 17 June 1886

Annotations Text:

Whiting to Whitman on June 14. The magazine printed a notice of the sale on July 3.

Walt Whitman to George and Susan Stafford, 10 June [1880]

  • Date: June 10, 1880
  • 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.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 29 April [1887]

  • Date: April 29, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

W W Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 29 April [1887]

Annotations Text:

The paper included "The Good Gray Poet Is White Now," an account of Whitman's lecture entitled "The Death

"L. of G.'s Purport" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

New York: New York UP, 1986.Moore, William L. "L. of G.'

William White. Supplement to the Walt Whitman Review.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1883

  • Date: April 4, 1883
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

The allusion, which is one George William will keenly feel, is to Tennyson's "O irresponsible, indolent

Have you seen Grant White's article in the Atlantic for April on the Bacon-Shakespeare craze?

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1883

Waterworks editorials in the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

William White's 1969 bibliography of Whitman's journalism largely replicates this decision.

Reconstructing Whitman's Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2015 33 1 21–50 White

, William Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography Detroit, MI Wayne State University Press 1969 Written

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