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Swinton's Rambles among Words , means "white man."

Wasn't he a white man?

has it—both white and black, both slave and master.

in American culture is white.

But the trapper is by no means unambiguously white.

.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

Correspondent Breeze," by Dwight Kalita, who connects it to the poems of other romantic poets, notably William

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

The poem's parenthetical concluding lines offer a milder version of the essay's call for young, white

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

Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment

William "Filibuster" Walker was a doctor, lawyer, and newspaper editor whose nickname stemmed from his

I step softly over and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the First Maine Cavalry, and

Missouri, Iowa, and all the Western States, temporarily camped here in Sherman's Union Major General William

There are two or three large stoves, and the prevailing white of the walls is relieved by some ornaments

O'Connor, the wife of William Douglas O'Connor.

Through the rich August verdure of the trees see that white group of buildings off yonder in the outskirts

Harewood Hospital, a model hospital like Judiciary Square and Lincoln, was built on the estate of William

Herbert and Talcott Williams seem to entertain quite a shine for each other.

I said of it "It has a William Morris lay-out." He replied: "Do you say so?

Gilchrist dined with Talcott Williams last evening.

Williams had intended coming over to see Walt—had he come? No. We talked of public men.

Doctor is magnificent—I love him (do I love anybody better saving maybe only William?)

For years past he has seemed to be unable to get adjusted to the immensities of William's perspective

He asked me: "Do you notice that sickness has such different effects on William and John?

John exaggerates his trouble: William, who is much worse off, makes light of it—seems not in the least

He said: "I carry it about in my heart—carry it—yes: and William, too.

William is fresh every day: never seems to get stale with time." Thursday, September 27th, 1888.

William must have written many things of the sort of which I never heard.

Ask William O'Connor—or you have asked him. Ask William's letters—ask John Burroughs.

"Talcott Williams was here to see me today—stayed, I suppose, half an hour or so.

Well—here is a letter of William's connected with the same affair: you had better take it and put the

W. said: "The best thing I know of him is, that William O'Connor, who was a man not easily satisfied,

O'Connor told us that William Henry Channing had said to her, or to William, that he was rejoiced to

Horace, there is a cloud hanging over William—over us all: a fatal black cloud.

I am not in the habit of anticipating disaster, but I can't help seeing that William's persistent trouble

I wish him to see Talcott Williams. Then will come our supper together.

It would be strange, so strange, if William should beat me out after all.'"

At dinner at Reisser's, with Morris and Frank Williams. Discussed Tuesday.

He advised me, "Go to anybody on the Press—go to the City Editor— anybody—not to Williams particularly

I do not know if Williams would be favorably disposed to this."

William's letter was indeed brief.Life Saving Service,Washington, D.

William was in a trifling measure afflicted in the same way.

W. said: "You 'reYou're right—it don't: sometimes I 'mI'm afraid nothing is going to help William."

W. asked: "You read William's letter—the letter I gave you to take along with you last night?"

When William gets going there 'sthere's nothing can stop him but an earthquake or a waterspout: he is

"Rees, Welsh were never the hummers William hoped they would be—wanted them to be—tried to make them:

and whenever an opening offered William would dash and hit about like a knight of the Cross."

I put in, "Why shouldn't the Jew expatriate the Russian or the negro the white?" "Exactly, exactly.

W. spoke of O'Connor: "William is all gentleman: however strong, however impetuous, however overwhelming

There I left them at least the 25th.Very respectfully,William Cook Capt. 19th U.S.C.T.92 W. 10thNew York

"I have been wondering if there may not be a better paper than white for our books," adding: "Has the

havealready been experimenting for centuries—three or four of them—and that this is the result: for white

apper, indisputably for white."

Then he said: "Clifford must n'tmustn't be scared by William: Clifford's a damsiter himself, though not

in William's way: no two men are alike: Clifford has his own powers, identities: look how he steers

And so I was breathed upon by her presence, what the sight of her recalled—the grand days—William."

Talcott Williams has just been here," he reported, "and we had a good talk—about his trip, his return

Then Williams was a radical Republican? He laughed again.

O'Connor saying she had not yet heard from the publishers concerning William's book.

Then he relapsed a minute—all was quiet over on the bed: "He said he dined with Rossetti—William Rossetti—while

, strawberries—"perhaps blackberries best of all"—the raspberries better when "mixed with currants—white

him towards literariness grow stronger with age—yet I remember that even so keen and cute a man as William

William was one of the first to change—to recognize the gold in John: I only mention it now, confidentially

Burleigh, Frank Cauffman, Harrison Morris, William Sloane Kennedy, Harry Bonsall, George Gould, Mrs.

Talcott Williams, Dwight Williams. W. jollied me because I had not arrived in season for supper.

Bucke was here too, and if William O'Connor was here—especially William—our love-feast would be complete

There was Gilchrist, Tom, Clifford, Williams, and Gilder.W.: "There is a thick letter down stairs from

W. said: "My attention was first called to him by William O'Connor, who may have met him personally—I

Greenhalgh, William M. Law, W. Dixon, Thos. Shorrock, Sam Hodgkinson, F. R. C. Hutton, T.

Ferguson, William Pimblett, Richard Curwen.

In afternoon I met with Brinton, Williams (Frank) and Morris and talked over affairs at Williams' office

"No—I am sure not—at least not anyone necessarily, though perhaps Tom Donaldson—perhaps Talcott Williams—though

"You like Williams." "Yes, I do. Someone was here the other day—spoke of him as a prig.

But there is more to Williams than all that: he has original talent of no common order—but I guess it

So far Gilchrist, Clifford, Frank Williams and Harned are sure.

Warrie tells me; W. so far has forgotten to refer to it.I arranged to meet Frank Williams and Morris

all the claims of my friends, especially at the fund from abroad, of which he said once to Talcott Williams

In trimming the plates, & (if yet to be done) trim them, especially No: 1, and No: 4, a little more white

Frank Williams in to see me about birthday—anxious lest it might be passed over, but agreeable in face

Talcott Williams on easels. Eakins talks of Miss Cook as "lively" and of Mrs. Williams as "sickly."

"I should say, my work, I, stand for, solidarity—not only of what are called the White or European peoples

W. gave me two letters—one from William Rossetti and one from Edward Dowden—and said of them: "They are

Well, Horace, having pleased William and Nellie, I may rest on my oars."

William was much pleased, not only with the gift, but with the book—type, print, all.

"That's what William used to say: he would sometimes say to me: 'Walt, you let off the God damnedest

I said to W. : "I innocently asked William if he knew Mrs.

"That is like William."

the hour for O'Connor: O'Connor was the man for this hour: and from that time on the 'good gray,' William's

"There's William, too, Horace: there's better news of him today: better"—pointing to the round table:

—not entering at all into William's literary, but sticking closely to his human, significance.Spoke of

He explained that Nelly had written of some man they used occasionally "but William prefers me when I

for a man of the delicate literary nurture of Gilder to take very kindly to a man so elemental as William

I said: "You are conservative in manner, and radical in matter: William is radical in both."

Again: "William is way ahead of the literary crowd: he is prophetic, with a dash of fight in him—more

That's the sort of thing in William that the other fellows never get used to."