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Search : William White

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Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 24 May 1885

  • Date: May 24, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Perhaps it was John White Alexander. See the letter from Whitman to Alexander, February 20, 1886.

"Hand-Mirror, A" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Taylor, Father (Edward Thompson) (1793–1871)

  • Creator(s): Jellicorse, John Lee
Text:

William Ellery Channing, Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, Harriet Martineau, and countless others chorused

White, 1906. 464. Whitman, Walt. Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. Vol. 2.

"Pioneers! O Pioneers!" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mignon, Charles W.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. "Pioneers!

"To the Leaven'd Soil They Trod" (1865–1866)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1886

  • Date: January 21, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor | William D. O'Connor
Text:

White, even at my expense! Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

Walt Whitman William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1886

Annotations Text:

White," a literary critic and scholar, who argued that Shakespeare was not a pseudonym of Francis Bacon

Sunday, November 11, 1888.

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

White, even at my expense. Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

O'Connor.W. was anxious about William.

Under what circumstances had he first met William?

Had William taken up L. of G. at the beginning?

I said: "Don't you think it significant that William recognized Leaves of Grass at the start?"

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1878

  • Date: January 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1877

  • Date: November 9, 1877
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

W. I. Whiting to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1886

  • Date: October 18, 1886
  • Creator(s): W. I. Whiting
Text:

Whiting Care Scammell Bros WI Whiting W. I. Whiting to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1886

Annotations Text:

See the letter from Whiting to Whitman of June 14, 1886, listing prices obtained at auction for a Whitman

"Prayer of Columbus" (1874)

  • Creator(s): Stuckey-French, Ned C.
Text:

Gilded Age, when in 1872 his opposition to black suffrage cost him his important friendship with William

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Walt Whitman to Horace Howard Furness, 26 January 1881

  • Date: January 26, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman sent Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets on the same day; see William White, "Unrecorded Whitman

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 March 1878

  • Date: March 28, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978]).

The horizon's edge

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

1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "There Was a Child Went Forth": "And grass, and white

and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, / ... / And the appletrees

Henry S. Tuke to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1891

  • Date: March 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Henry S. Tuke
Text:

book sent March 24 Swanpool Falmouth Cornwall England— March•9•1891• Dear Sir My friend Mr Gleeson White

Annotations Text:

Gleeson White, an Englishman Whitman described as a "middle-aged man very gentlemanly & pleasant," visited

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:575.

Sunday, July 22, 1888.

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

That's what Talcott Williams says. He was here today with Mrs. Williams."

What I put into that little piece I got chiefly from Philbrick, a clerk at the White House, who was always

I did meet Hay in Washington during the war—talked with him frequently at the White House.

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

A Peep at the Israelites

  • Date: 28 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A white silken mantle, somewhat like a scarf, was worn by every person; it encircled the neck, falling

The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is worn

platform which made part of this structure, there was another figure standing, half shrouded in a white

Scott" and "Shakespeare's Shylock" are both Jewish characters in works from Sir Walter Scott and William

Similarly, Shylock is a character from the William Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice .

Annotations Text:

.; The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is

Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)

  • Creator(s): Mattausch, Dena
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Long Island Star

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

"Osceola" (1890)

  • Creator(s): Sierra-Oliva, Jesus
Text:

Soon, some white raiders kidnapped Osceola's wife.

to add to Leaves of Grass his homage to Osceola, one of their bravest heroes.BibliographyHartley, William

Whigs

  • Creator(s): Hatch, Frederick
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. Whigs

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 May 1887

  • Date: May 27, 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

The Germanic was a steamer passenger ship built in 1874 by the White Star Line in Belfast; it made frequent

Walt Whitman to A. C. Floyd, 7 January [1875?]

  • Date: January 7, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

far as I can tell by my impression—which is a very vague one, for I have never seen the book—"the White

Annotations Text:

White Rose and Red. A Love Story was published by Osgood & Co. in 1873.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 May 1886

  • Date: May 25, 1886
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

Great are Talcott Williams and Thomas Donaldson, and blessed be their names.

It lets out the delicious fact that White had seen the article—probably some magazine that had it, broke

Walt Whitman. see note Mar 5 William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 May 1886

W. Hale White to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1880

  • Date: March 21, 1880
  • Creator(s): W. Hale White
Text:

Hale White Whitman Esq THE GENIUS OF WALT WHITMAN.

Hale White to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1880

Annotations Text:

William Hale White (1831–1913) was a British writer and civil servant who sometimes published under the

Walt Whitman to [G. W. Harris], 31 March 1881

  • Date: March 31, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:235).

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Shipley, William M. Singerly and L. Clark Davis.

The half light from the window fell upon his brown face and long white beard, and flowing white hair,

William Ingram to Walt Whitman, 10 August 1888

  • Date: August 10, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Ingram
Text:

his death the retort fires were started on Sunday morning and at 4 in the afternoon the oven was at white

heat. 2800 degrees all ready and he was put in a white sheet which was soaked in alum and laid on a

Co, Pa, I would like you when you have read this, to send it to Mrs Johnston 150 Bowery New York William

Review of Leaves of Grass (1860–61)

  • Date: 9 June 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Annotations Text:

Stimson, the New York Day Book had a distinct proslavery agenda and billed itself as the "White Man's

Walt Whitman to Francis Fisher Browne, 23 November 1885

  • Date: November 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Browne was collecting poems of the Civil War; see the letter from Whitman to White, Stokes & Allen of

Our New York Letter: Jennie June's Weekly Jottings

  • Date: 17 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Jennie June
Text:

Both men look older than they are, for the massive head of on all gray, and the other all white.

his time with some English friends, the family of the late Alexander Gilchrist, the biographer of William

The biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the

Tuesday, May 26, 1891

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

Told him what William Swinton had said to me about W.'

This stirred him, "William is right—she did, she did." Had been reading Scott when I entered.

Said he intended to send a copy of the new O'Donovan portrait to Black and White.

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873

  • Date: ca. 1865 - 1873
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

Walt Whitman by William Kurtz, ca. 1865 - 1873 Clara Barrus said that this photograph was "taken by Kurtz

the pose showed Whitman “as most of his friends knew him—wearing a hack suit, a slouch hat on his white

printed over and over, often with the caption “Walt Whitman in his Prime.”For more information on William

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 1866

  • Date: December 1866
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Richard Grant White has but paid just sympathy to a true poet "Swinburne"; The criticism is a "Poem,"

Annotations Text:

Drum-Taps written by John Burroughs and a review of Algernon Charles Swinburne's work by Richard Grant White

"America [Centre of equal daughters]" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 3. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House, all the grounds filled, and away out

As the President came out on the capitol portico, a curious little white cloud, the only one in that

Annotations Text:

.; The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Bibliography of Copies

Text:

William F.

William E.

William Michael Rossetti W. B.

William F. Channing William D. O'Connor Ellen M.

William B.

Sunday, September 23rd, 1888.

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

The morning papers published extracts from the Diary of the Emperor Frederick William—cabled from abroad

"Long white hair, long white beard and moustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

They were from Nelly O'Connor, William O'Connor, Cyril Flower, Henry Clapp, Sylvester Baxter, and W.'

George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

  • Date: November 28, 1873
  • Creator(s): George A. White
Text:

Whitman, Mrs White Today—Nov 28th 73—acknowledges the receipt of twenty five dollars on account from

White George A. White to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1873

Sunday, March 27, 1892

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

like one of the grand classic pictures of gods, with the hands calmly folded and that strange yellow-white

Williams, Maud Ingersoll: San Francisco Cal 27th Place wreath for me marked "Un Pilori" letter follows.David

today owning to sickness but will be on hand at funeral please telegraph me arrangements.Francis H Williams

New York 27 My father in Buffalo will notify him.Maud Ingersoll Morris and Talcott Williams over today

To these men body and brain yielded unexpected fruits.Many callers in the day, Morris and Talcott Williams

Prohibition of Colored Persons

  • Date: 6 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Oregon prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white

The great obstacle to Southern progress and enterprise is well-known to be the fact that White Labor

It would be altogether a contest with reference to the interest of the masses of the Whites, and would

Who believe that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen?

Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?

David Hutcheson to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1880

  • Date: November 24, 1880
  • Creator(s): David Hutcheson
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:212).

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

Human Voice

  • Creator(s): Griffin, Larry D.
Text:

Harned, Frank Harris, William Dean Howells, Bertha Johnson, Dr.

John Johnston, Stuart Merrill, William Douglas O'Connor, Sarah Payson (Fanny Fern), Helen Price, Horace

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Sunday, April 22, 1888.

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

William is quite as radical as Tucker though much less interested in political study—is more fond of

I stand in awe before William." Rhys once said to W. in reply to W.'

s question: "William Morris always mentioned you kindly, genially, in fine friendly fashion, admiringly

They like nice white hands, men and women. They are too much disturbed by dirt.

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.

"Song at Sunset" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Butler, Frederick J.
Text:

Blodgett, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2.

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

  • Creator(s): Klawitter, George
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 19 July [1872]

  • Date: July 19, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What you say about William, fagged with work & I suppose the weather—& Nelly, half-sick, & Jennie about

New Hampshire, June 24th & 25th by day light—26th & 27th at Hanover, N.H.—28th & 29th slowly up the White

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