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Search : William White

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Monday, August 19, 1889

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

That was the one William Swinton most affected—most read. You know about William Swinton?

Leaves of Grass: and his wife too: a fine, large, splendid, handsome woman—mother of children—for William

William went west—to Oakland—taught there in the college—was Professor of something or other.

Asked me for close particulars as to the Boston trouble—then— "Aside from that, William has been very

Wednesday, November 13, 1889

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

"William O'Connor and Nellie O'Connor occupy a large place in my memory—not in my memory alone, but in

And now that William is no more—now that William is gone—gone forever, from physical sight—the great,

surpassing William!

She told me many things about the funeral—about William's death—the last days—which it was only possible

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1891

  • Date: November 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I send you this week's Black & White & Christian Commonwealth containing portraits of & articles on two

Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

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.

W. F. Peddrick to William M. Evarts, 16 November 1868

  • Date: November 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): W. F. Peddrick | Walt Whitman
Text:

William M. Evarts, Attorney General, U. S. New York City.

Peddrick to William M. Evarts, 16 November 1868

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

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

District Attorney for New Mexico, to the Solicitor of the Treasury, in reference to the case of William

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 23 August 1871

A.T Akerman to William McMichael, 9 November 1871

  • Date: November 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William McMichael, Esq. Ass't. Atty General at Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.

this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Melanie Krupa A.T Akerman to William

Matthew F. Pleasants to Henry Williams, 20 May 1870

  • Date: May 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Henry Williams, Esq. Savannah, Geo.

Pleasants to Henry Williams, 20 May 1870

Amos T. Akerman to William K. Love, 17 March 1871

  • Date: March 17, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William K. Love. Hagerstown, Lebanon Co. Penn. Sir: I have received your letter of the 9th instant.

Akerman to William K. Love, 17 March 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William Grant, 25 November 1871

  • Date: November 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Grant, Esq. New Orleans, La. Sir: You are hereby retained as special assistant to the U.S.

Akerman to William Grant, 25 November 1871

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 23 November 1890

  • Date: November 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

evn'g (welcome)—Stanley's companion & secretary (Hamilton Aide ) has been over to see me—Talcott Williams

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 23 November 1890

William R. Thayer to Walt Whitman, 26 June 1883

  • Date: June 26, 1883
  • Creator(s): William R. Thayer
Text:

Yours truly William R. Thayer To Walt Whitman, Esq. Camden, N.J. William R.

William Mills to Walt Whitman, 15 February 1880

  • Date: February 15, 1880
  • Creator(s): William Mills
Text:

Yours affectionately William Mills William Mills to Walt Whitman, 15 February 1880

William Carey to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1891

  • Date: December 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Carey
Text:

I hope you will live to great many new years Yours sincerely William Carey 8 December 1891 William Carey

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 May 1870

  • Date: May 11, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Brooklyn May 11, 1870 Dear William, My hand has been pretty bad, but looks more encouraging to-day.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 May 1870

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 29 February 1868

  • Date: February 29, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 29 February 1868

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 6 May 1868

  • Date: May 6, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 6 May 1868

John M. Binckley to P. Davey, 20 May 1868

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

Williams, prosecuted under the Revenue Laws. You will observe that the money paid by Mr.

Williams has been actually received by other parties, and that the whole was done by regular authority

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 7 July 1868

  • Date: July 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H.

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

J. Hubley Ashton to William H. Seward, 28 August 1868

  • Date: August 28, 1868
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Hubley Ashton to William H. Seward, 28 August 1868

William M. Evarts to John McAllister Schofield, 6 February 1869

  • Date: February 6, 1869
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

Infantry, by William Branch; and to say, in reply, that a copy of your letter with its enclosure, and

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

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, 3 March 1869

  • Date: March 3, 1869
  • 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, 3 March 1869

Amos T. Akerman to William Craig, 21 January 1871

  • Date: January 21, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Craig, Esq. Memphis, Tenn.

Akerman to William Craig, 21 January 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William Grant, 9 November 1871

  • Date: November 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Grant, Esq. New Orleans, La.

Akerman to William Grant, 9 November 1871

William Stewart to William B. Hill, 26 August 1865

  • Date: August 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Stewart to William B.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [10 October] 1889

  • Date: [October 10], 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Tucker & he wd take nothing of course for six copies of the paper on William.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [10 October] 1889

William Rideing to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1890

  • Date: October 17, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Rideing
Text:

Yours Faithfully William H. Rideing tman Esq.

William Rideing to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1890

William Cook to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 19 February 1865

  • Date: February 19, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Cook
Text:

I am, very respectfully, William Cook Capt 9th U[nited].S[tates].

William Cook to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 19 February 1865

Saturday, March 15, 1890

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

W. thinking: "How different William was!—the prince of company!

There was no company like William—I never met another, man or woman.

When we were all in Washington together, it was always 'Walt' and 'John' and 'William'—the choice of

Walt Whitman by Dr. William Reeder, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
Text:

William Reeder, 1891 Dr. William Reeder was a Philadelphia physician and admirer of Whitman.

William Reeder, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1887

  • Date: December 5, 1887
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Williams & Everetts this evening after work, & passed a few rapt moments in looking at the bust of you

He seems to have acted on Sidney M's suggestion abt about Williams & Everett's being a better place than

Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1887

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1863

  • Date: November 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Cooper has been coaxing, persuading, begging, entreating, commanding even William to go on with them

shall not unless some strong pressure is brought to bear between now & Monday, for I can see that William

Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, & I feel as if a large part of myself were out of

William E. Babcock to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): William E. Babcock
Text:

Before Petersburg NY January 21st, 1865 Friend Walt Haveing this morning received a letter from Lieut William

Sending my best respects to Your Mother and Your Self hoping to hear from you soon I remain Yours &c William

your Brother Capt Geo Whitman 51st NY N Prisoner of War Danville, V[irgini]a C[onfederate] S[tates] William

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

DN William White, ed., Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press,1978), 3vols.

TV Sculley Bradley, Harold W Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White, eds.,Leaves of Grass: A Textual

William H.

Eliot, and William Carlos Williams.

William C.

Edmund Spenser: born about 1553—died 1599.

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

unworldly, abstracted, contemplative in the highest degree—loving high themes— princeliness, purity, white

Leaves of Grass, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their

A Boston Ballad.

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

For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

Chants Democratic and Native American 6

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

Remember what was promulged by the founders, rat- ified ratified by The States, signed in black and white

A Boston Ballad.

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

For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

Poem of Apparitions in Boston, the 78th Year of These States.

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

Bring down those tossed arms and let your white hair be, Here gape your smart grand-sons—their wives

A Thought From An Occurrence of Yesterday

  • Date: 18 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There a miserable, half-crazy nigger, enveloped in a white shroud, was taken in the midst of a procession

New Publications

  • Date: 27 August 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Papers follow on the Circulation of the Blood;" on White's "Eighteen Centuries;" on "London Exhibitions

Milford C. Reed to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1889

  • Date: June 1, 1889
  • Creator(s): Milford C. Reed
Text:

much only of course somewhat older. hair sprinkled somewhat with gray. your hair cannot be much more white

Compromise of 1850

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

Free-Soilers who opposed the extension of slavery on the principle that it would discourage the migration of white

Crane, Hart (1899–1932)

  • Creator(s): Martin, Robert K.
Text:

Influenced in his early work, including the volume White Buildings (1926), by the French symbolists,

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–1892)

  • Creator(s): Sanfilip, Thomas
Text:

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

Reminiscences of Whitman

  • Date: 11 April 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

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

William A.PannapackerLincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865) Abraham Lincoln was the

William Barton, in his study of the two men, shows that these events are probably fabrications.

Their literary styles were both influenced by the Bible, William Shakespeare, Thomas Paine, and Robert

With the aid of supporters like William D.

Coyle, William, ed. The Poet and the President: Whitman's Lincoln Poems. New York: Odyssey, 1962.

Friday, October 9, 1891

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

W. saying, "I tell you what, Horace, you ought to make out at some length a magazine piece about William

To tell the story of William's life—what he seemed here for—what he stood for—the aim, accomplishment

Paul, but W. shook his head, "Anyway, we will insist that William must be recognized by force of his

The noble William!"

Indeed, I think my own Lincolnism was a good deal the result of William's pressure—Gurowski's.

Henry Stanbery to William H. Seward, 28 December 1867

  • Date: December 28, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

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

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, 31 October 1868

  • Date: October 31, 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, 31 October 1868

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