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Search : William White

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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]

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

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

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

buckle the straps carefully, Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels, The white

Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1891)

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

buckle the straps carefully, Outdoors arming, indoors arming, the flash of the musket-barrels, The white

Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

WHO are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human, With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 24 July 1864

  • Date: July 24, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I hope you too are well—William, I rec'd the volume of Navy Reports, transactions of iron clads, fights

light housework—My sister & her children are well—(Nelly, I write these particulars for you)— Well, William

all the news—tell me how is Ashton—Good bye & God bless you, my dear friend— Walt Walt Whitman to William

Abraham Simpson to Walt Whitman, 19 August 1867

  • Date: August 19, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson
Text:

Edited by William A. Hammond, M.D., and E. S. Dunster, M.D. Subscription, $5,00 per annum. II.

Edited by William A. Hammond, M.D. Subscription, $5,00 per annum. III.—The Philobiblion.

By William Seller, M.D., etc., and Henry Stephens. A book for every Farmer and Rearer of Cattle.

By William Murray, M.D., etc. (In press.) LIGHT; ITS INFLUENCE ON LIFE AND HEALTH.

Saturday, October 24, 1891

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

Frank Williams there—later Jastrow—later still Morris.

Williams told me this. Lincoln Eyre's mother, Mrs.

Williams astonished and pleased.

I promise, knowing W. has copies and would do it, and that Frank Williams could nowhere else get them

Liked Williams immensely. On way to Philadelphia we made notes on boat.

Sunday, August 30, 1891

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

(W. says, "Yes, I guess I saw that letter—William had several from Newman about that time—all noble,

hand; innumerable Whitman newspaper excerpts which she designs for Bucke's collection; scrapbook of William's

W. says, "I am sure William was more right than John in all that.

How magnificent William had to be when he crossed swords with anyone!

O'Connor alive with anecdote and story—brings new pictures of William and W.

Friday, October 23, 1891

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

W.W. at 4:15 and with him first to see Talcott Williams, at Press, who was fortunately in and with whom

Afterward came in Frank Williams, and still later Harned—and these made the party.

Wallace next me, opposite us Morris and Clifford, to the right Frank Williams and Buckwalter, to the

The Emerson letters were brought out (I had them in my pocket) and read aloud—Frank Williams the 1855

Williams recalls "the night Ingersoll sat here with us, spouting Shakespeare."

Monday, November 19, 1888

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

"Williams sends us good news from Russia, that most inaccessible of all countries.

that is: William can do that sort of thing better than any man writing to-daytoday."

"Yes," said W., "I noticed what William has to say about him.

W. shook his head over William's anti-Garfield argument. "Suppress the piece? Why suppress it?

: who 'dwho'd have thought of diving for it but William?

Do I not prove myself

  • 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

Eva Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 December 1890

  • Date: December 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Eva Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

William M. Evarts to William H. Seward, 16 February 1869

  • Date: February 16, 1869
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Evarts to William H. Seward, 16 February 1869

Amos T. Akerman to Isaiah T. Williams, 4 February 1871

  • Date: February 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams, Esq. U. S. Commissioner, No. 27 Chambers st. New York.

Williams, 4 February 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 11 February 1871

  • Date: February 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

William A. Johnson, principal, and certain U. S. Soldiers, as witnesses (S. C.) John W.

Akerman to William W. Belknap, 11 February 1871

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?, ca. late 1860s

  • Date: ca. late 1860s
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz?

Kurtz's "Rembrandt" style of light and shadow, a style he pioneered in 1867.For more information on William

The School Bill

  • Date: 8 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

During Whitman's tenure at the Aurora , the Post editor was the poet and abolitionist William Cullen

See William C. Gover, The Tammany Hall Democracy of the City of New York (New York: Martin B.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 26 September 1889

  • Date: September 26, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Traubel in my letter to him for the photograph of William, & also for the pictures of the "laughing Philosopher

You know he married the daughter of our dear friend William Henry Channing who used to be in Washington

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 November 1889

  • Date: November 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Last year I had William & Harold Channing, but I think we did not ask any guest, William was already

William J. Linton to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1885

  • Date: July 1, 1885
  • Creator(s): William J. Linton
Text:

If you go you must see W m William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless, Dante Rossetti

from you and believe me always heartily yours WJ Linton from Linton July 1 '85 see notes Oct 6 1888 William

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 26 January 1876

  • Date: January 26, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Rossetti 431 Stevens st. cor West. Camden, N. Jersey, U.S.

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 26 January 1876

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Perry, Bliss (1860–1954) Bliss Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Williams

Stedman, John Burroughs, Talcott Williams, J.T.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 26 July [1871]

  • Date: July 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dear William O'Connor, I take it by the enclosed from Rossetti that he has sent me the Westminster by

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 26 July [1871]

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."

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, 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."

Wednesday, May 13, 1891

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

Asked me if I had given my father Black and White? "I thought it a strong array of pictures.

Dates referring to China

  • Date: Around June 23, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Silk is plenty— they have a kind of white coarse stuff of grass, that makes, for foreigners very good

About the Brooklyn Daily Times

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

anti-slavery politics inclined toward free-soilism, an ideology focused on the economic rights of independent white

Into the Country

  • Date: 19 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

getting so horridly common." and even Niagara has got to be a bore of the first magnitude, and the White

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6–7 January 1891

  • Date: January 6–7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Frost had ornamented our windows with his inimitably beautiful pr & hung our hedges & trees with his white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 11 March 1891

  • Date: March 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

truly glorious day here—an easterly wind with bright sunshine, a beautiful blue sky with great snow-white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6–7 August 1891

  • Date: August 6–7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

old mother endlessly crying for her castaways" ["]sways to & fro singing her husky song" the "milk white

Annotations Text:

Johnston quotes the phrase "milk-white combs careering" from Whitman's poem "Patroling Barnegat," which

Albert C. Hopkins to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1892

  • Date: March 14, 1892
  • Creator(s): Albert C. Hopkins
Text:

for the stars, the centre representing the Central government or Capital, from which radiate in the white

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 4 August [1885]

  • Date: August 4, 1885
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

A grand looking old man—long white beard, aquiline features, keen eyes—spare, sinewy frame, full of restrained

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 15 August 1848

  • Date: August 15, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ex-Commissioner overleaps the mark in his fury, and charges too much on his extensively abused Excellency of the White

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 28 April 1887

  • Date: April 28, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Horace Traubel
Text:

Jefferies is editing the vol. to follow yours in the series—White's Selborne.

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 4 October 1848

  • Date: October 4, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, T.

Annotations Text:

White, who were members of the Irish Directory in New York.

A. Van Rensellaer to Walt Whitman, 30 July 1865

  • Date: July 30, 1865
  • Creator(s): A. Van Rensellaer
Text:

It was in the winter time, I think in '64 I went up to the White House with a friend of mine, an M.

"Boston Ballad (1854), A" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
Text:

be resisted not to protect the freedom and rights of blacks, but to protect the freedom of Northern white

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 3–5 August [1878]

  • Date: August 3–5
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Down at White Horse At the Staffords'— Aug 3 My dear Herb I came down here yesterday afternoon in the

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 8 March 1863

  • Date: March 8, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

guard-house is a nasty, lousy dungeon without light—in it was a nigger with his wrists in manacles, and four white

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

Henry Stanbery to William H. Seward, 13 January 1868

  • Date: January 13, 1868
  • 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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Henry Williams, 18 April 1870

  • Date: April 18, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Henry Williams, Esq. Counsellor at Law, Savannah, Geo. Sir: Your letter of April 10th is received.

Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Henry Williams

Henry Stanbery to William A. Dart, 26 September 1866

  • Date: September 26, 1866
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams, Dep. U. S. Marshal at Buffalo, called upon Gen.

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

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.

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