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Search : William White

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Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
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linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

John M. Binckley to William Price, 21 June 1867

  • Date: June 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Binckley to William Price, 21 June 1867

John M. Binckley to Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Seward, Gideon Welles, Hugh McCulloch, Orville Hickman Browning, A. W. Randall, 17 August 1867

  • Date: August 17, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Grant, William H. Seward, Gideon Welles, Hugh McCulloch, Orville Hickman Browning, A. W.

John M. Binckley to William M. Evarts, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William M. Evarts, Esq. New York. Sir: I have received the joint letter of Mr.

Binckley to William M. Evarts, 4 November 1867

John M. Binckley to L. H. Chandler, 7 November 1867

  • Date: November 7, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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the United States District Court for the District of Virginia, in the matter of the application of William

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 14 November 1867

  • Date: November 14, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 14 November 1867

John M. Binckley to William Mungen, 6 December 1867

  • Date: December 6, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Binckley to William Mungen, 6 December 1867

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 12 December 1867

  • Date: December 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Sir: At the request of William Dorsheimer, Esq., United States Attorney for the Northern District of

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 30 December 1867

  • Date: December 30, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 30 December 1867

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 28 December 1867

  • Date: December 28, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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communication from this office of the 12th instant, and to enclose herewith a copy of another letter from William

John M. Binckley to Hugh McCulloch, 20 January 1868

  • Date: January 20, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Root, touching an alleged exaction of illegal fees by Deputy Marshal Williams, of the Northern District

, and received, from the Marshal of that District, which shows that the fees collected by Deputy Williams

John M. Binckley to William Kelley, 8 February 1868

  • Date: February 8, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William Kelley, E street, near Virginia av. Island. Washington, D. C.

Binckley to William Kelley, 8 February 1868

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 25 February 1868

  • Date: February 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 25 February 1868

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 2 March 1868

  • Date: March 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 2 March 1868

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

  • Date: February 29, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 29 February 1868

John M. Binckley to James W. Locke, 10 March 1868

  • Date: March 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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certificate of the judgment, and that an appeal was allowed to claimant in prize case of Schooner John Williams

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 17 March 1868

  • Date: March 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Hon William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 17 March 1868

John M. Binckley to Thomas C. McCreery, 31 March 1868

  • Date: March 31, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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direction of the Attorney General ad interim , a copy of his Report to the President in the case of William

John M. Binckley to William H. Seward, 8 April 1868

  • Date: April 8, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Binckley to William H. Seward, 8 April 1868

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

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

John M. Binckley to Hugh McCulloch, 8 August 1867

  • Date: August 8, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
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Williams, and wife, would vest in the United States a good & valid title to the premises referred to.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 10 May 1875

  • Date: May 10, 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
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card sometimes to tell of your health and happiness—There is not much political difference—with a white-hot

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 3 April [1875]

  • Date: April 3, [1875]
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
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V., —me not —me not cheat—me not beg—me not tell lies back black lies white lies" is all to me es man

yes it be yes and when me say no it be no—dats p fun sometime but me tant help it—me will to some " white

what em good for but torn and totton for chibalry chivalry white mans ?

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 7 October 1874

  • Date: October 7, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
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The white population predominates here enough to free us from the unpleasantness experienced in other

Men and Memories

  • Date: 16 January 1892
  • Creator(s): John Russell Young
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One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I look where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin, and draw near.

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

John Scott and J. P. Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

  • Date: May 24, 1867
  • Creator(s): John Scott and J. P. Williams | John Scott and J.P. Williams
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New York, May 24 th 186 7 To Scott & Williams, Dr. (Late, WM. E.

Nassau & William.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1867

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1902
  • Creator(s): John Townsend Trowbridge
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One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1891

  • Date: December 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): John William Lloyd
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J Wm Lloyd John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1891

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John William Lloyd
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John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

Poetic Theory

  • Creator(s): Johnstone, Robert
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(William Carlos Williams credits Whitman with foreshadowing the "variable foot," though it is difficult

, and literary poesis is best expressed by a devout and subtle reader of Whitman, the philosopher William

New York: Library of America, 1983.James, William.

Joseph B. Marvin to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1887

  • Date: February 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Marvin
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William Brough, who lives in a costly residence on Farragut Square and is a very pleasant, educated man—evidently

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1889

  • Date: March 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
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Traubel makes an error in transcribing Chamberlein's handwriting: the mountain is Moosilauke, in the White

Stafford, Harry Lamb [1858-1918]

  • Creator(s): Kantrowitz, Arnie
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of the most intense relationships of the poet's life.Stafford took Whitman to visit his parents at White

Long Island Democrat

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Long Island Patriot

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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charisma and powerful position, Whitman was more deeply impressed by the Patriot's foreman printer, William

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.White, William.

"A Tribute to William Hartshorne: Unrecorded Whitman."

Long Island Star

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1973.White, William.

Long Islander

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
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White, William. Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969. 

Dollars and Sense in Collaborative Digital Scholarship: The Example of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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At the time, I was teaching at the College of William & Mary, and one of my graduate students, Charles

First at William & Mary and now at Nebraska, I have had one or two students helping me (working a combined

Nelson, and Matt Cohen—were hired into full-time staff positions at William & Mary in Information Technology

The Walt Whitman Archive at Ten: Some Backward Glances and Vistas Ahead

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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None of our musings took concrete form, however, until after I had moved to the College of William &

Some of you may know that the brown site featured William Michael Rossetti's Poems by Walt Whitman and

biographical sketches of three of the most important figures—Horace Traubel, John Burroughs, and William

William Thomas, formerly the director of the Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia

All we know for certain about such projects as the The William Blake Archive The Complete Writings and

Electronic Scholarly Editions

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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co-edits: "We plow forward with no answer to the haunting question of where and how a project like [ The William

For multimedia artists such as William Blake and Dante Gabriel Rossetti the benefits are clear: much

Electronic editing allows us to avoid choosing, say, the early William Wordsworth or Henry James over

William Horton has written that creators of digital resources may feel tempted to forego the difficult

name techwatch_report_0205> Horton, William (1994).

Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What's in a Name?

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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William Carlos Williams called the first Leaves "a book as important as we are likely to see in the next

thousand years" (Williams, quoted in Hindus 1955, 3).

One such project, the William Blake Archive , was awarded a prize from the Modern Language Association

William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Yakel, Elizabeth.

Civil War Washington, the Walt Whitman Archive, and Some Present Editorial Challenges and Future Possibilities

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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American literary and historical studies focuses on canonical writers and political leaders—that is, on white

advice from Brett Barney, Amanda Gailey, Wendy Katz, Elizabeth Lorang, Vanessa Steinroetter, and William

Whitman's pre-Leaves of Grass Marginalia on British Writers

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
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William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:754.

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
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Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti One Vol., pp. 406. J.C. Hotten.

To William Michael Rossetti, as the selecter of these poems, we are not simply, in old-fashioned phrase

That immortal house, more than all the rows of dwellings ever built, Or white domed white-domed Capitol

William Wordsworth was reputedly fond of the lesser celandine and it inspired him to write three poems

William Cowper (1731-1800) was a popular English poet of his time.

Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition

  • Creator(s): Keuling-Stout, Frances E.
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Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
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rebel against their owners, setting fire to a building near Broadway, and threatening to kill any whites

Three beads of black and six of white were equivalent, among the English, to a penny, and among the Dutch

Here the aboriginal money circulated,—small polished shells, some white, some black, strung on the sinews

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Walter, William T. "Long Island." In , edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, 3–14.

Scholarship, Trends in Whitman

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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The first defender was William Douglas O'Connor, whose famous 1866 pamphlet The Good Gray Poet argued

bibliographical scholarship, the same cumulative effect has been achieved, thanks to such scholars as William

White, Arthur Golden, Scott Giantvalley, Donald Kummings, Joel Myerson, and the various editors of the

Self-Reviews of the 1855 Leaves, Whitman's Anonymous

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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In a review of the 1856 Leaves, William Swinton of the New York Times identified Whitman's hand in the

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.Holloway, Emory.

Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
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The environmental historian William Cronon, on whom Buell relies, is no doubt right in suggesting that

The spider of Jonathan Edwards, the waterfall of Henry Vaughan, the waterfowl of William Cullen Bryant

And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

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