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Search : William White

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Tuesday, July 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William might now go to his journey's end uninterrupted."

I believe William knows a good lot more than Donnelly about the subject—draws deeper water."

Tuesday, July 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It's the same old town—only different.My brother William sailed for Port Royal ten days ago—to be present

Tuesday, July 24, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He brought a letter of introduction from Talcott Williams.

"William has his own troubles." I wrote to Burroughs for W. yesterday.

Tuesday, July 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And, "How William would storm and cry out if I made a change in 'Leaves of Grass'—a comma, even.

Even the day of the discharge "he came around—cool, undisturbed—William too stunned himself to vent the

W. declared, "William was what I said in my little piece, a shield for the oppressed—a knight of chivalric

William was different—his poise admirable. Such knowingness, such fidelity!

Noble William—child of best generations—picked from all—the flower of the modern!"

Tuesday, July 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William resented the Emperor piece. Why?

Tuesday, January 8, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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A good looking man, long white beard, aquiline features, keen eyes—spare, sinewy frame, full of restrained

Rolleston was a knight-errant: the real Irish stuff: like William: radiant, forible, illuminative: I

Frances Emily White to open with The Evolution of Ethics. W. exclaimed: "Oh! that is a subject!

Tuesday, January 29, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I have had more letters: one from Nellie O'Connor: she does not write very hopeful news: William is

Nellie says also that for the first time William is himself despondent—thinks the outlook a poor, a hopeless

I am a little sorry for Nellie: she is physically of the delicate intellectual type: William is heavy—now

"William was truly a temperance man: in the real sense so: he used to enjoy wine—an occasional glass,

Tuesday, January 26, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams. "Bless her good heart!" said W.

Tuesday, January 20, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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[William Sloane Kennedy]Had them in a rubber together: four letters and the manuscript.

Tuesday, February 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I spoke up: "Stedman said to me in a letter that William was the most brilliant letterwriter in the English

He wasn't slow in saying: "I suppose I am: William is certainly the brilliantest man who ever came within

O'Connor.W. said: "I'm glad I don't deserve the lambasting William gives Saint Anthony.

I said, "William calls him skunk, but I don't see why the skunk's one amiable fault should subject him

"That's the best yet: we must repeat that to William." I read a Cornhill paper today on slang.

Tuesday, February 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke said: "William does not boost himself enough: he helps everybody but himself."

"What do you see ahead for William?" W. asked.

Tuesday, February 19, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Shelley wrote to William Godwin and they became friends.

Tuesday, February 12, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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what wouldn't I give to be near enough to William now to see him occasionally."

taught it: grown-up people should be forced to remember it: it is precious, sacred, everlasting: William

Tuesday, December 8, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"That," he said, "must have been written by William Walsh—perhaps Harry. I guess William, however.

"Literary Symposia" up: Professor Parkhurst, Miss Repplier, Owen Wister, Frank Williams and Lincoln Eyre

Tuesday, December 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I took Alexander Gardner's sheet—the title page: it had quite a good deal of white paper: wrote a long

William was very furious about it: it was bandied about Washington—got into the papers: William asked

That was William: I suppose he was right: I needed only to make a simple public statement: I would be

I submit here the document prepared for William by W. and passed into my hands since by Nellie O'Connor

Dear William O'Connor:As you were interested in Mr.

Tuesday, December 22, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I have anxious letters from Gilder and Rome.Morris and Williams again anxiously in Bank this forenoon

Frank Williams heard from Stedman briefly today but with no mention of W., from which Williams concludes

s friends—deciding upon Ingersoll, Brinton, Bucke and Harned—with Frank Williams to read from old scriptures

Tuesday, December 2, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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various walkers on literary fields—"is all from" his "hand," he says, "and on its way it would give William's

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It looks to me as if William was in for some extreme decision before long—I don't think he can last this

Then: "I am depending upon you to in the main keep our folks informed how I am—John, William, Kennedy

Tuesday, December 16, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams. "Now I am a little apprehensive of a miscarriage—it has been ten days."

No—Williams will not print—at least with my consent: I should, as I see it now, be positively opposed

Tuesday, December 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Also Talcott Williams. Much talk of W. Gilchrist took part in the discussion.

Tuesday, August 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. does not acquiesce in the recent revival of Bewick and William Blake.

Tuesday, August 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had made his selection of card, putting with samples this memoranda: I prefer the white card (thickest

of all "samples") marked * in the little book "Of course," he said to me, "I wish the white: I am going

Tuesday, August 5, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William D.

Tuesday, August 26, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Said Frank Williams had been in today. "For a few minutes—en route to Atlantic City."

Tuesday, August 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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That the horror of slavery was not in what it did for the nigger but in what it produced of the whites

For we quite clearly saw that the white South, if the thing continued, would go to the devil—could not

And, "We had stormy times then, but William and I always thought ours the most comprehensive—what would

Tuesday, August 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William mentions you.

William will die with a hurrah on his lips."

William always has the effect of the open air upon me," said W.

"Next to getting out of my room here is to stay in my room and get a letter from William.

I don't know which contains the most open air—William or out-doors.

Tuesday, August 18, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And again, "William would have seen it himself—yes, would have gone straight to the heart of it."

The odd movements of the Emperor William, Germany, excited W.'s interest. "He seems an odd critter.

Tuesday, August 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams. Also give me a five pound note to have cashed for him.

Tuesday, August 12, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Longfellow, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Whittier, Webster, Calhoun, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, even William

Tuesday, April 7, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Neither of us have word from Talcott Williams yet.

Tuesday, April 30, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And when I asked: "Has he ever—or anyone—in any way indicated William Morris' feelings toward you?"

Tuesday, April 23, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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They talked a little about Frank Williams, to who Curtis referred as evidently in mourning for someone

Williams well, and Frank Williams too, the husband"—adding as to the mourning—"It is not any of the children

Tuesday, April 22, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He thought copies should go to Clifford, Brinton, Frank Williams and Morris—and I engaged to take them

Subsequently he followed with words of sweet cheer: "You will see Frank Williams tonight?

Left with him a copy of the American containing Frank Williams' comment on the Contemporary Club meeting

Tuesday, April 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Neither of us had word from Talcott Williams.

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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another side: it is the other side which the partisan always leaves out of his account: I remember William

He said: "William was a whirlwind when he had his health: what has he come to now? alas!

White a going over, of which I wrote you some time ago.

Tuesday, April 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Gave me the Gutekunst picture of the old Emperor William: "Take it along: left here, it will surely get

Tuesday, April 15, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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at the Art Club (8.24), Harned stood there, the first to greet us, calling out word: then Frank Williams—Morris—and

quickly Talcott Williams from indoors.

Morris and Frank Williams had placed some lilacs there on the table.

Tuesday, April 14, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He was rather indignant that still no word has come from Talcott Williams.

W. said, "I have the feeling that I have somewhere met him—perhaps at Frank Williams'—coming to see the

Tuesday, April 1, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Sir William Don, later on, was a character, too.

The Truant Children Law

  • Date: 21 October 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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In a word, are white children, even if born in poverty, to be grabbed by a policeman for no offence?

Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827–1916))

  • Creator(s): Rachman, Stephen
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of weeks in 1863, Trowbridge spent a good deal of time with Whitman along with John Burroughs and William

Travels, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Field, Jack
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William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Prose Works 1892. Ed.

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals

  • Date: 1996
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G. | Price, Kenneth M., Folsom, Ed
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America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited

William J. Stone, on Meridian Hill near 14th Street.

Whitman also befriended a Wisconsin soldier, William Hugh McFarland.

Whitman befriended Wisconsin Volunteers William Hugh McFarland (seated, center) and Stephen M.

Photograph of William Bliss.

Traubel, Horace L. [1858–1919]

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
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Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Walling, William English. Whitman and Traubel. 1916. New York: Haskell House, 1969. 

Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945

  • Date: 2021
  • Creator(s): Bernardini, Caterina
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and from two collections of essays, Walt Whitman in Europe Today, edited by Roger Asselineau and William

Carlos Williams.

He soon met nu- merousAmericanwriters,includingCarlSandburg,LolaRidge,William Carlos Williams, and Alfred

See Rossetti’s letter to Whitman of March 31, 1872, in Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti,

See Humorous Poems Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti (London: E.

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
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the western persimmon . . . over the long-leaved corn and the delicate blue flowered flax; Over the white

Tomorrow

  • Date: 11 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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referring to John Tyler, who became the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) when President William

The Tomb-Blossoms

  • Date: January 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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I stopped and leaned my back against the fence, with my face turned toward the white marble stones a

White hairs, and pale blossoms, and stone tablets of Death!

"To You [whoever you are...]" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Mulcaire, Terry
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nimbus of gold-color'd light," around the head of each "you" that he addresses.In Pragmatism (1907) William

Bucknell Review 28.1 (1983): 121–143.James, William.

To Workingmen

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are; The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; (Did you think it was in the white or gray

the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads; Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

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