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Search : William White

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Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1889

  • Date: December 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

My first visit to William's grave since last July when I went away.

Where do you think William is, for that is only the worn out machine in which he manifested himself while

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1883

  • Date: August 17, 1883
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Wm O'Connors William O'Connor's letter is a treat, with a little too much seasoning.

If W m William would only practice a little more self-denial, he would be much more effective.

"Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Collmer, Robert G.
Text:

(1856) by William Henry Smith.

the ostent"—the universal spirit that breathes throughout nature and persons.BibliographyFriedman, William

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 10 October [1870]

  • Date: October 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My dear friend, I shall return to Washington next Saturday, 15th—William, it would be a favor if you

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [7 October 1882]

  • Date: October 7, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William, (as you seem to be destin'd destined to defend the banner) I say here once for all you have

to make any extracts, at any time, should you so like from any of my letters— W W Walt Whitman to William

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [2 January 1886]

  • Date: January 2, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy | Walt Whitman
Text:

Kennedy Whitman wrote another letter on the back of Kennedy's letter, and forwarded the whole to William

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [2 January 1886]

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)

  • Creator(s): McBride, Phyllis
Text:

PhyllisMcBrideShakespeare, William (1564–1616)Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) The author of two lyric

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)

Saturday, July 25, 1891

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

See, Anne—see the boats—the white sails. And you think, Horace, we can't get along the shore here?

"Any manuscript of William's has an interest for me." He did not seem exhausted on return.

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

Leaves of Grass, 1856 edition

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Saturday, September 1, 1888.

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

Affectionately,William D.

O'Connor.Here is what W. said of O'Connor: "William is the last of his race—no one is left but William

Burroughs thinks William too strenuous—keyed up monotonously too high—but I do not.

To me William is self-justified in the truest sense of the word.

William's onslaught is terrifying—it always means business."

Sunday, July 1, 1888.

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

As I told you, I was profoundly impressed by a couple of articles in the Fortnightly Review by Sir William

In the best health, we grow lean, Sir William Thompson says, like a man training for the ring.

How can white think well of black? And then, the anti-copperhead talk is still rampant here.

Monday, November 2, 1891

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

Brinton thinks inter-marriage would deteriorate the white race.

expresses affection for the fellows—with a particular word for Brinton and Morris—and concern for Frank Williams

Talcott Williams present at Penn Club. The main thing—the cordiality mixed with entire freedom.

Saturday, May 19, 1888.

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

"It does a fellow good to receive such notes: William is always so breezy, so cute.

By the way, Horace, here is an old letter of William's I have saved for you."

What I mean is this—that William is a great scholar—has the whole business in his fingers—can reel off

William is a constant marvel to me—like the sun each morning, like the stars every night: he never grows

the days pass, the years pass, by and bye William will pass, I am afraid, with the work undone.

Monday, July 20, 1891

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

As I understood it, he went to Boston to urge on Houghton the publication of William's book.

Indeed, yes—I often stopped in on William there: they were great days."

After all, William was the top bough—the nearest heaven!

I asked William, 'Is that authentic?'

William was an ardent lover of Ingersoll's, always—thought everything of him."

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 July 1864

  • Date: July 5, 1864
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William says it seems so desolate since you left,—and even yet in the evening when I hear a car coming

William got your note, and answered it but he directed it to Brooklyn only, so it may not be carried

I know that William prefers & I do, too, that this trouble concerning the house & hall be settled before

Send her a note any time, & direct it to William & he will take it to her office.

pictures last week, & they are rather bad, the front face, or rather three quarter face, is hideous, William

Walt Whitman & the Irish

  • Date: 2000
  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

The unnamed author, whom Whitman seems to assume his readers will know, was William Carleton (1794–1869

Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy ), has been seconded by literary critics of the caliber of William

Rolleston, William Butler Yeats, and others in furthering an appreciation of Whitman among Europeans.

William M.

For some years William Tweed wielded great power in the state legislature.

Leaves of Grass, 1855 edition

  • Creator(s): Marki, Ivan
Text:

As William White has shown, 795 copies were printed in all, 599 of which were bound in cloth with varying

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

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 8 November 1871

  • Date: November 8, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Henry Weller, Acting Governor of New Mexico, in reprieving William Knorr, convicted of "removing from

Gordon Granger, and case of William Knorr New Mex. seven other officers of the Army, in which Knorr was

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz

For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Margaretta L. Avery to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1889

  • Date: February 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. Avery
Text:

William is Sick most of the time. we have had the fashionable Complaint. the Gripp. the Boarder in the

said was acquainted with your brothers family. her Sister lived in my house at one time, nice family William

William H. Taylor to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1891

  • Date: June 15, 1891
  • Creator(s): William H. Taylor
Text:

them. in the meantime I wish you many happy Birth Days , and you may believe me as ever your friend William

William H. Taylor to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1891

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 January 1865

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

William, if you could hear of a room, I wish you would engage it for me—if Gwinne has one, it would do—take

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 January 1865

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

  • Date: November 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

well father i will close now with giveing yo the address write soon for i long to heer from yo from William

E Vandemark to his father good by William E.

Local Intelligence: &c.

  • Date: 6 November 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mason, passed assistant surgeon; John O’Means, acting purser; William F.

Sharp was called to the chair and William Gascoyne appointed secretary.

The following officers were then unanimously elected for the ensuing year: Captain —WILLIAM H.

William Gascoyne , secretary. Brooklyn, Nov. 4th, 1847. HATS.

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

Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1890

  • Date: January 20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Unidentified Correspondent
Annotations Text:

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

Edward P. Cattell to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1877

  • Date: October 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward P. Cattell
Annotations Text:

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

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

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  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White pine abounds in the northern part, and white and red oak on the coast.

Roger Williams, First Settler of Rhode Island.

Both of these monuments are of white marble.

Along the White River, the St.

The name of William B.

William M. Evarts to William Fullerton, 23 December 1868

  • Date: December 23, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

William Fullerton, 11 Pine street New York City.

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

Evarts to William Fullerton, 23 December 1868

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 September 1889

  • Date: September 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

& help to me, as she can advise me better than any one, what to do, & help me about disposing of William's

Do you think there is any good picture of William? one that you really like?

(over) I have a picture of William taken long ago that I like very much but would it be as satisfactory

Democratic Review

  • Creator(s): Smith, Susan Belasco
Text:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Evert Duyckinck, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Horatio Greenough, William

Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, William Gilmore Simms, William Ellery Channing, and Henry David

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 15 September [1867]

  • Date: September 15, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

C. spoke of the remnants of the old Bohemian crowd—expressed contempt for William Winter —called him

Show John this letter—I send him my love—William, I have not yet rec'd any letters—when any come, send

Price Ashley Lawson Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D.

From Georgetown University's American Studies Crossroads Project

  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Lorang
Text:

I also knew that in some ways the College of William & Mary was ill-suited to undertake it.

Gross, College of William & Mary; Walter Grunzweig, University of Dortmund (Germany).

He has plans to develop an Iowa center for the project to complement the one at William & Mary.

Talks are currently underway at William & Mary to provide the with an expense budget.

This project has generated a high level of excitement at William & Mary.

Death of William Cullen Bryant

Text:

Death of William Cullen Bryant

Tuesday, October 27, 1891

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

27, 1891Wallace met me, 4:55, as by appointment at Drexel Building, and here we looked up Frank Williams

Williams and I pointed out to Wallace the main places, buildings, landmarks—and we wandered across the

Williams said, "I am glad you fellows came in to see me.

Wallace had joked with Williams, "I find I have got to Timber Creek before some of your people here."

Then, "I saw by the papers that William's 'Three Tales' are to be out today.

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

L INCOLN never reposes at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location

there, (I think the light is extra-powerful here,) besides a large effect of green, varied with the white

We have put the draft through, have conscribed a goodly lot of whites, blacks and Secessionists; and

some badly wounded—and, perhaps, never to rise thence,) the cots themselves, with their drapery of white

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 5 May 1868

  • Date: May 5, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to return herewith a letter from Hon.

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

William M. Evarts to Samuel Blatchford, 24 November 1868

  • Date: November 24, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

honor to ask your attention to certain papers which I enclose for your examination in the case of William

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

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz

For more information on William Kurtz, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Mary B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1888

  • Date: September 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary B. H. Williams
Text:

Williams Kind regards to Mrs. Davis. Mary B. H. Williams to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1888

Smith, Alexander (ca. 1830–1867)

  • Creator(s): Cooper, Stephen A.
Text:

in Kilmarnock, Smith mainly educated himself by reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, William

William Sinclair. Edinburgh: Nimmo, 1909. Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 5 July 1864

  • Date: July 5, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spells of weakness with heavy aching head—I think the throat is no worse, but it is not well yet— William

change in my condition— Good bye for present, my dear friend, & God bless you — Walt Walt Whitman to William

November Boughs

  • Date: 2 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Walsh, William S.
Text:

manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical, that "William

William O'Connor and Dr.

We have no concern with William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke. If we have concern with Mr.

wants something newer and better than the old poetry, and that his poetry is not an achievement (William

All this is granted by us, or rather spontaneously asserted, and if William O'Connor and Dr.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 February 1891

  • Date: February 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 February 1891

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

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

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