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shall seize the first chance to send you the big (complete works) book — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
Walt Whitman am now sitting alone in my big chair by the oak wood fire—comfortable— Walt Whitman to William
Best respects to Mrs: K Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 6 November 1889
Church and William C. Church, 15 November 1869
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William T. Stead, 6 January 1891
His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.
He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar
, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.
twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white
year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White
the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites
Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific, In each house is the ovum
soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white
She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white
The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness
the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites
Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific, In each house is the ovum
soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white
She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white
The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness
Pleasants to William Dorsheimer, 6 June 1867
Binckley to William Price, 21 June 1867
Pleasants to William Dorsheimer, 17 June 1867
as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen Henry Stanbery to William
Attorney General to transmit to you for your information a copy of a letter received to-day from William
me, and amounting to five hundred dollars, ($500:) of Oscar Folsom, for services as assistant to William
direction of the Attorney General ad interim , a copy of his Report to the President in the case of William
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen William
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen William
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen William
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger William
Butler;—also the account, approved by me, and amounting to $1000:00, of William Schley, for counsel fees
receipt of your letter of the 3d inst. relative to the proceedings instituted in Dakota Territory ag't William
noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William
Pleasants to William Henry Brisbane, 29 October 1869
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 4 April 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 24 August 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 21 August 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 29 August 1871
noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 9 November 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 14 November 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 12 December 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 20 December 1871
Elizabeth Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William
Marshal of California relative to the proceedings of the master of the British ship "William Wilson"
noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William
noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William
Pleasants to William R. Thrall, 31 October 1870
noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 4 February 1871
noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William
Field to William A. Richardson, 23 June 1869
assistance in your power in discovering testimony for the Government in the cases in your District against William
Sir: I have received your letter of the 23d instant, in relation to the case of William O. C.
On the verso of one of the leaves is a letter from William Black seeking Whitman's autograph.
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen William
file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger James Speed to William
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger William
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 April 1887
W.D.O'C William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1882
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1889