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Search : William White

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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.

Walt Whitman by Samuel Murray, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Murray, Samuel
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where this was taken.In May of 1891, Murray accompanied the New York sculptor and friend of Eakins, William

Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873)

  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
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JoelMyersonHotten, John Camden (1832–1873)Hotten, John Camden (1832–1873) John Camden Hotten was born John William

In 1867 he engaged William Michael Rossetti to edit a selection of Whitman's writings for twenty-five

Rhys, Ernest Percival (1859–1946)

  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
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Rhys was a member of the Rhymers' Club, which included Arthur Symons and William Butler Yeats among its

Whitman in His Own Time

  • Date: 1991
  • Creator(s): Myerson, Joel
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Gilder], The Lounger 66 William H.

Gertrude Traubel and William White; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982), 7July 1890

Garrison William H.

William T.

His hair was perfectly white.

Nelson Jabo to Adeline Jabo, 21 January 1865

  • Date: January 21, 1865
  • Creator(s): Nelson Jabo
Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Annotations Text:

Jabo's health declined rapidly after the battle of White Oak Swamp, and he was ultimately discharged

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Nelson, Robert K. | Price, Kenneth M.
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In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whitman's close allies in his final years, wrote a barbed

Surprisingly, the restriction also emboldened Kennedy to attack Whitman's "dearest friends"—William Douglas

Since it was precisely the mailing of that was later banned, at least one of Whitman's friends, William

William White (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978), 2, 289 n. 1515; and Correspondence , ed.

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman

Harper's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
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From comments by George Curtis on Drum-Taps to William Dean Howells's editorial on November Boughs, the

Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918)

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
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Jordy, William H. "Henry Adams and Walt Whitman." South Atlantic Quarterly 40 (1941): 132–145.

About "arrow-Tip"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock | Nicole Gray
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In that it features a group of white settlers banding against a Native American character, this early

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
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One Williams College copy has a blank copyright page; two other copies, now at the University of Virginia

White notes by way of context that "the scrapbook was used by Whitman to keep clippings from newspapers

In research for a short article describing the discovery, William White determined that the document

White also identified the "Mr.

White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First American Literature 28.4 (1957): 516–17.

Introduction to Walt Whitman's Short Fiction

  • Date: 2016
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock | Nicole Gray
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" and twenty-four other works in the magazine, as well as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, William

, included Whitman's "Bervance; or, Father and Son," as well as works by John Greenleaf Whittier, William

The account begins with the following: "I am a white man by education and an Indian by birth.

, "Addenda to Whitman's Short Stories," 221–222; White, "Two Citations" 36–37; White, "Whitman as Short

White, William. "Addenda to Whitman's Short Stories."

Introduction to Franklin Evans and "Fortunes of a Country-Boy"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock | Nicole Gray
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Wisdom" as Captain William A.

For a more complete history of William Wisdom and his presidency of the New York Washingtonians, see

The dream vision of a great homogenous (white) nation coming together twenty years in the future, in

These versions are described in William G. Lulloff, " Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate ," in J. R.

Lulloff, William G. "Franklin Evans (1842)." In Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia , 234–236. M. W. H.

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
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Based on the binder's records, William White argues that the total edition consisted of 795 copies, an

Williams & Co. to Mr. B. E. Perry.

Blodgett, Harold, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

White, William, ed. . 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Whitman, Walt.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
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White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire- caps firecaps — The kneeling

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white… they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm house— The sun just shines on her old white

"Spirit That Form'd This Scene" (1881)

  • Creator(s): Oates, David
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alliteration; those between develop artful changes on the basic three-beat line.BibliographyAarnes, William

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
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She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house; The sun just shines on her old white

again, this soil'd world. … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Walt Whitman in Private Life

  • Date: 6 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Olive Harper
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.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

"From Far Dakota's Cañons" (1876)

  • Creator(s): Olson, Steven
Text:

Whereas in "Song of Myself," for example, he implies an equality between the Indian and white man, in

"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.

Orville Hickman Browning to William M. Evarts, 17 March 1868

  • Date: March 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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William M. Evarts, Esq. Dear Sir: I have just received a telegram from Mr.

Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to Andrew Johnson, 28 March 1868

  • Date: March 28, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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that at the recent February term of the Circuit of the United States for the District of Kentucky, William

The prisoner is a white person and the deceased was a negro.

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 5 May 1868

  • Date: May 5, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
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William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Sir: I have the honor to return herewith a letter from Hon.

Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 6 May 1868

  • Date: May 6, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William Henry Trescott, 10 June 1868

  • Date: June 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to John McAllister Schofield, 22 June 1868

  • Date: June 22, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

It is confidently believed and averred that if two whites, felons, malefactors, and outlaws, had fallen

"From these proceedings, it will appear that the said Isaac Owens was regularly in charge of said William

killing, when the infuriated mob of freedmen were about to take Isaac Owens away to kill him, our white

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 2 July 1868

  • Date: July 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Williams, the subject of a communication made to your Department by the United States Consul at Melbourne

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to Lyman Trumbull, 7 July 1868

  • Date: July 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William M.

Orville Hickman Browning to William H. Seward, 7 July 1868

  • Date: July 7, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

William H.

Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to William M. Evarts, 16 July 1868

  • Date: July 16, 1868.
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

Elizabeth Lorang Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Orville Hickman Browning to William

Orville Hickman Browning to Andrew Johnson, 16 July 1868

  • Date: July 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

Rowan Boone to be United States Marshal for the District of Kentucky, in the place of William A.

Orville Hickman Browning to Columbus Delano, 3 April 1868

  • Date: April 3, 1868
  • Creator(s): Orville Hickman Browning | Walt Whitman
Text:

Williams, Assistant to S. A. Riggs, U. S.D.

Williams S. A. Riggs, Kansas, for Qr. end'g April 26, '69 June 26, S. F.

Williams Kansas 3d qr. 1869 $375 22 W. Virginia 3d qr. 1869 $125 Nov. 3 So.

Radicalism

  • Creator(s): Panish, Jon
Text:

Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white

important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white

Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William

Associations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and Societies

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerAssociations, Clubs, Fellowships, Foundations, and SocietiesAssociations, Clubs,

Whitman's American admirers—William D.

Johnston, John, and James William Wallace.

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

White, William.

"Death's Valley" (1892)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.Pannapacker"Death's Valley" (1892)"Death's Valley" (1892)On 28 August 1889, Henry Mills Alden

Life Illustrated

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerLife IllustratedLife IllustratedA miscellany of literature, agriculture, photography

North American Review, The

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerNorth American Review, TheNorth American Review, TheA miscellany of politics, economics

Rev. of Venetian Life, by William Dean Howells.

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerLincoln, Abraham (1809–1865)Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865) Abraham Lincoln was the

William Barton, in his study of the two men, shows that these events are probably fabrications.

Their literary styles were both influenced by the Bible, William Shakespeare, Thomas Paine, and Robert

With the aid of supporters like William D.

Coyle, William, ed. The Poet and the President: Whitman's Lincoln Poems. New York: Odyssey, 1962.

Washington, George (1732–1799)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerWashington, George (1732–1799)Washington, George (1732–1799) A Virginia planter,

Furness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerFurness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946)Furness, Clifton Joseph (1898–1946) Born on 30

Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerLowell, James Russell (1819–1891)Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891) Poet, editor,

American Phrenological Journal

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerAmerican Phrenological JournalAmerican Phrenological JournalPublished in New York

their own books: nevertheless, in an unsigned review in the New York Daily Times (13 November 1855) William

Osgood, James R. (1836–1892)

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerOsgood, James R. (1836–1892)Osgood, James R. (1836–1892) Born in Fryeburg, Maine

After the Boston "suppression," Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, and William O'Connor rallied around

Putnam's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerPutnam's MonthlyPutnam's MonthlyFounded in New York by George Palmer Putnam and

In January 1868 Putnam's new series contained an effort by William D.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
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William A.PannapackerPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaKnown as the Quaker City and

Talcott Williams, a journalist for the Philadelphia Press (1881–1912), managed to get the Boston prohibition

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
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In his History of American Literature, William P.

dressed in white and olive-skinned girls with beautiful white teeth and flowers in their hair.

You don’t mess with William Kennedy!

Kennedy, William S. Fight of a Book for the World.

Kennedy, William S. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman. London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.

Walt Whitman's Book

  • Date: 16 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Payne, W. M.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) succeeded William Wordsworth as poet laureate of Great Britain in 1850

At the conclusion of William Blake: A Critical Essay (1868), 300–303, Swinburne pointed out similarities

William Michael Rossetti (1829–1915), brother of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, was an English

For more on Whitman's relationship with Rossetti, see Sherwood Smith, " Rossetti, William Michael (1829

Walt Whitman by William S. Pendleton, ca. 1872

  • Date: ca. 1872
  • Creator(s): Pendleton, William S.
Text:

Walt Whitman by William S.

New York City Directory lists Pendleton at this address starting in 1869, and advertisements for William

directories, Pendleton is listed at 336 Fulton, and in 1890 at 436 Fulton.For more information on William

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1878

  • Date: January 20, 1878
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978] 1:79).

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