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William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1889

  • Date: February 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

see the brilliant star-show; noticed the big cherry tree in the lane splashed all over one side with white

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1889

"Black and White Slaves."

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"Black and White Slaves." "Black and White Slaves."

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White Slavery," and was created

by a Northern slavery apologist named Edward Williams Clay.

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Annotations Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Vintage Books, 1996), 125–127.; The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]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comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William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. ____.

"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.

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.

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 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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

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

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.

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.

"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.

"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.

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?"

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.

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."

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).

"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)

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.

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.

"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.

"Native Moments" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. 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.

[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

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

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

"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. ____.

"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. ____.

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

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.

"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.

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" (1861)

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

"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.

Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 24 May 1885

  • Date: May 24, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Perhaps it was John White Alexander. See the letter from Whitman to Alexander, February 20, 1886.

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.

Long Island Democrat

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

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

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)

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