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Search : William White

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Wednesday, May 6, 1891

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

Gave me a copy of Black and White (England)—"They can't touch our illustrators—can't reach the edge of

If I should need to name, O Western World!

  • Date: October 25, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spasmic geyser‑loops ascending to the skies, ap— pearing appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 December [1873]

  • Date: December 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

blue shirt collar turned down low with a nice black silk neck handkerchief, tied loose—over a clean white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1891

  • Date: May 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

We send you the Review of Reviews & Black & White P.P.S.

Annotations Text:

The Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was an illustrated British weekly periodical

In 1912, the Black & White was incorporated with another periodical, The Sphere.

The Police Contest

  • Date: 22 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We have his aim now set before us in black and white.

Douglas and Buchanan

  • Date: 8 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In order to render the Senator's re-election hopeless, the crafty inhabitant of the White House turned

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 17 June [1876]

  • Date: June 17, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

well as usual these times—am now just going down to an old farm house & big family, down in Jersey at White

Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813–1861)

  • Creator(s): Garvey, T. Gregory
Text:

Douglas's bill was perceived as a threat by Northern abolitionists and working class whites because it

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 3 March [1874]

  • Date: March 3, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

go out for about an hour generally about noon, with my cane, (& accompanied by my little yellow & white

Year of Meteors.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I would sing how an old man, tall, with white hair, mounted the scaffold in Virginia; (I was at hand—silent

Longings for Home.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Come Up From the Fields, Father.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio, with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the night, in solitude, tears; On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand; Tears—not

"To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Smeller, Carl
Text:

The poem's parenthetical concluding lines offer a milder version of the essay's call for young, white

Albert G. Knapp to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1876

  • Date: April 2, 1876
  • Creator(s): Albert G. Knapp
Text:

appearance & seemingly past the middle age since his hair & face beard were plentifully sprinkled with white

Longings for Home

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers; The range afar—the richness

Year of Meteors (1859-60)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

signs; I would sing your contest for the 19th Presidentiad; I would sing how an old man, tall, with white

Longings for Home

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers, The range afar—the richness

Come Up From the Fields Father.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

O Magnet-South.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

Come Up From the Fields Father.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

now the single figure to me, Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms, Sickly white

O Magnet-South.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Amos T. Akerman to William A. Buckingham, 28 December 1871

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William A. Buckingham, Chairman of the Committee on Investigations and Retrenchments, U.S. Senate.

Akerman to William A. Buckingham, 28 December 1871

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 May 1890

  • Date: May 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Dear Walt, I am going to ask you to do something for me,—or shall I say something for William, —it will

collect & publish with the new one that has not yet been printed, "The Brazen Android," — As soon as William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 May 1889

  • Date: May 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William passed peacefully to rest at 2 A. M. this day.

Last Sunday was the anniversary of our darling Jeannie's passing on, & I almost thought William would

Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

  • Date: January 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text:

William H. Seward , | Secretary of State. Ralph Waldo Emerson to William H. Seward, 10 January 1863

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 11 October 1888

  • Date: October 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Old William Williams, the father, is a typical Welsh peasant of the better class.

Of the two sons now at home, the eldest David is about 34 years old, & William about 25.

William moreover is a remarkably comely & well-built youth, without an evil trick in his whole nature

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor and Ellen M. O'Connor, 27 September 1868

  • Date: September 27, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Swinton has lately been posting himself about William Blake, his poems—has the new London edition of

When I rose I said I was going up to my room to write to you & William—there were warm expressions from

Price charged me to give her love to you, to William, & to Jeannie—Mr.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor and Ellen M. O'Connor, 27 September 1868

Legacy, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

Eliot, nativist versions in William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane, and refractions from abroad in poetry

closest inheritors of Whitman's poetic stance toward his country and compatriots, Hart Crane and William

In Paterson Williams's analogue for the poet—the figure of a dog sniffing local trees and digging in

Williams, looking for resources to oppose Puritanism, embraced Whitman's image as a poet of immediate

American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman.

Jane Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 15 July 1874

  • Date: July 15, 1874
  • Creator(s): Jane Stansberry
Text:

William Received Some papers From you yesterday Which we All take great In Reading And, Aspecialy especially

We have found out what the Privatians Privations of life is Since we came west we Came Here For williams

William's Health He was very Healthy Before he went to the Army. they Sent him home From Washington

John M. Binckley to William M. Evarts, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

William M. Evarts, Esq. New York. Sir: I have received the joint letter of Mr.

Binckley to William M. Evarts, 4 November 1867

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, 21 November 1868

  • Date: November 21, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger William

Evarts to William H. Seward, 21 November 1868

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William T. Sherman, 11 April 1870

  • Date: April 11, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

report to him at Vermillion, Dakota, on the 4th Monday of June next, as witnesses in the case of William

Elizabeth Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 13 December 1871

  • Date: December 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

your letter of the 9th inst. with the accompanying papers, in reference to an expected suit against William

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 13 December 1871

Progenitors

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

William A. Hawley to Walt Whitman, 10 August 1869

  • Date: August 10, 1869
  • Creator(s): William A. Hawley | Horace Traubel
Text:

Yours with a brother's love William A. Hawley William A. Hawley to Walt Whitman, 10 August 1869

I know as well as

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

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7–10 August [1870]

  • Date: August 7–10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

blue sky—a grand sight—& the beautiful yachts & pleasure boats, lots & lots of them, with immense white

Annotations Text:

Daily Morning Chronicle of August 7, 1870, noted an accident on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at White

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1891

  • Date: February 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

In "The Colonel, at Home, in Sonoma County" (Overland, 17 [February, 1891], 200–208), Laura Lyon White

Friday, January 18, 1889.

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

But read, Horace: read: I want to hear William: read! read!" Providence, R.I. Mar. 27, 1883.

["That 'sThat's right, William!"

["Don't be so sure of that, William!

["It did, William!" said W., "and the noise of it has not yet all died out!"]

["O William! William!

John M. Binckley to Hugh McCulloch, 20 January 1868

  • Date: January 20, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Root, touching an alleged exaction of illegal fees by Deputy Marshal Williams, of the Northern District

, and received, from the Marshal of that District, which shows that the fees collected by Deputy Williams

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 23 November 1871

  • Date: November 23, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Sir: I herewith transmit, for such action as you may deem proper, an account of William Hildreth, of

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 23 November 1871

William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1873

  • Date: December 9, 1873
  • Creator(s): William Stansberry
Text:

not—I yet retain your Photograph with care —Hoping to hear from you soon I am very Truly Your Friend William

William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1873

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 20 October 1865

  • Date: October 20, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

right—& was glad to hear from you, Nelly, & Charles Eldridge & dear little Jeannie—(I will not add William

& launched on the market—at least that's my design at present — When you write tell me all about William—My

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 9 July 1864

  • Date: July 9, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I wrote to William some five days ago—has he not rec'd it?

The doctor to-day tells me my throat is markedly better—In my letter to William I told him I had rec'd

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 12 May [1867]

  • Date: May 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William, I received the letter, with Ramsdells note. Also Allen's.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 12 May [1867]

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1865

  • Date: January 19, 1865
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William got your letter last week, and we were all glad that you felt like coming to try the position

In your letter to William you spoke of Mrs. Davis being at Mrs. Price's.

Your letter to William about your books interested us deeply, be sure to bring your perfect copy of "

William would send love if he new that I was writing,—Jeannie is out playing & as usual, her voice is

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

morning & especially the drive in the Country where the gardens are now all radiant with blossom—the white

the cherry & the plum (—the plum blossom appears before the leaves) & the sweetly delicate pink & white

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