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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18–20 December 1890

  • Date: December 18–20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Chester (Eng:) paper I sent—Have heard nothing more of late f'm Stoddart (Lippincott's ) or Talcott Williams

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 November 1890

  • Date: November 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ab't fizzled out—splendid show here of the brightest prettiest yellow chrysanthemums I ever saw, & white

Lippincotts has this piece I enc: y'r letters rec'd & always welcomed— I have sent the white (mole color'd

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 April 1891

  • Date: April 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 16 September 1891

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

three weeks yet)—y'r letters rec'd (short but sweet)—J W W[allace]'s good letters rec'd too—expect T Williams

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 16 November 1889

  • Date: November 16, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Suspicion of more strength in me—splendid effect f'm electric light shining in on big bunch of snowy white

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 16 June 1891

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

Whitman wrote this letter to Bucke on the back of the final page of a letter he had received from William

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 August 1888

  • Date: August 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978).

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13–14 November 1889

  • Date: November 13–14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all-color'd chrysanthemums this season hereabout—you must have a splendid show of them—the yellow (canary) & white

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 February 1889

  • Date: February 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You will ask why we don't have a nurse & the answer is William does not want one, & is not ready yet,

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 December 1888

  • Date: December 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman wrote a postscript to his letter to Bucke on the back of a December 13, 1889, letter from William

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12 November 1890

  • Date: November 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 11 September 1890

  • Date: September 11, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 10 July 1891

  • Date: July 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Congress Hotel in Cape May—a favorite vacation spot for former U.S. presidents—as the first "summer White

House," since the actual White House was undergoing renovations involving the installation of electricity

Walt Whitman to Reverend Robert Collyer, 11 May 1887

  • Date: May 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:422) and later noted that the book had been

Walt Whitman to Reverend Minot Judson Savage, 4 November 1880

  • Date: November 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1977) 1:209.

Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 17 January 1863

  • Date: January 17, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9 October [1868]

  • Date: October 9, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

& the splendor of such a great street & so many tall, ornamental, noble buildings, many of them of 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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 September 1870

  • Date: September 6, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of the German armies —all the spars & rigging are hid with hundreds & hundreds of flags—a big red–white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [30] September [1870]

  • Date: September 30, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

get soaked with rain, & covered with mud—I saw one crack battalion, all so spruce & handsome, with white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 June [1871]

  • Date: June 30, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you will see them out all over up & down the bay in swarms—the yachts look beautiful enough, with white

sails & many with white hulls & their long pennants flying—it is a new thing to see them so plenty.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 September [1870]

  • Date: September 23, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The river & bay get more & more beautiful, under these splendid September skies, the green waves & white

foam relieved by the white sails of the crowds of ships & sail craft—for the shipping interest is brisker

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18–20 June [1873]

  • Date: June 18–20, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a raise of some new summer clothes, real nice—thin black pants & vest, a blue flannel suit, & some white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [16 January 1874]

  • Date: January 16, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

put yourself out to get it )—As I write the sun is shining bright & clear as can be—the ground is white

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 September [1873]

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

William A. Boyden, of that city.

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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 July [1874]

  • Date: July 10, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whites. —I will write further about it—I have not heard any thing from Eldridge, or Mrs.

Annotations Text:

White, Whitman's landlady (see the letter from Whitman to Charles Eldridge of October 13, 1873), had

White offered to purchase Whitman's bedstead and certain other effects.

White wrote again on October 6 and offered him a credit of $10 for his furnishings against a balance

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Haskell, 10 August 1863

  • Date: August 10, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

told me he was at the regimental hospital at a place called Baltimore Corners not many miles from White

Walt Whitman to Moncure D. Conway, 24 July 1867

  • Date: July 24, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Introduction is written by William O'Connor.

Walt Whitman to Moncure D. Conway, 17 February 1868

  • Date: February 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William O'Connor is well, and remains employed as before.

I have not yet seen the February Fortnightly —nor the book William Blake—but shall procure & read both

Walt Whitman to Martha Whitman, 2–4 January 1863

  • Date: January 2–4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A friend of mine, William D.

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

  • Date: October 4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

men here—the scene is a curious one—the ward is perhaps 120 or 30 feet long—the cots each have their white

Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman, 22–26 June [1878]

  • Date: June 22–26, [1878]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

mansions in spots peeping all along through the woods & shrubbery—with the sloops & yachts, with their white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 8 September 1863

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

have any thing but a cup of tea & some bread or crackers, (first rate tea though with milk & good white

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 7 June 1864

  • Date: June 7, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

not felt first rate myself— I am going to write to George to-day, as I see there is a daily mail to White

field near Richmond much better than we did from the Wilderness & Fredericksburgh—We get them now from White

House, they are put on boats there, & come all the way here, about 160 or 70 miles—White House is only

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [5 January 1872]

  • Date: January 5, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams has assigned me there—but several important bits of work have had to be done just now, & today

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 4 December 1866

  • Date: December 4, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Swinton is here in Washington, temporarily. He is interested in speculating in gold.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Fourteenth st., the cavalry after him—I really think it would be safer for him just now to stop at the White

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 29 January 1867

  • Date: January 29, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Hunter (who is in the House, from Brooklyn, to fill out James Humphrey's term) called a Republican

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 27 December 1871

  • Date: December 27, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams has been in once or twice—he is a tallish, western sort of man, wears a stove-pipe hat—is rather

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 27 August [1872]

  • Date: August 27, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

young Hungarian gentleman, quite agreeable, talks English well, quite a traveler—went over to the White

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 25 May 1865

  • Date: May 25, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

great wide avenue like Flatbush avenue, quite flat, & stretching as far as you can see, with a great white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 23 April 186[7]

  • Date: April 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Attorney General's Office , Washington 186 Dearest mother, William O'Connor has returned, & has brought

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 22 January 1867

  • Date: January 22, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

looks like winter at the far north as I look from my window—every thing as far as the eye can reach is white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A pause, the crowd drops away, a white bandage is bound around and under the jaw, the propping pillows

limpsy head falls down, the arms are softly placed by the side, all composed, all still,—and the broad white

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 16 April 1868

  • Date: April 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spell, but got over it—Mother, I have just got your letter of 14th—& was glad to get it—I havn't seen William

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 15 October [1872]

  • Date: October 15, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

overcoat—You see, mother, I am likely to prove a true prophet about Greeley —He is not expected here at the White

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 10 June 1864

  • Date: June 10, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

likely, is that our base of the army is to be changed to Harrison's Landing on James river instead of White

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 1 January 1872

  • Date: January 1, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams, the new boss, wishes to bring some friend of his here—I do not know that I shall dislike the

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