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Search : William White

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Sunday, March 3, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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they were: I may say, John has changed towards himself—that I notice—but he has not changed towards William

—that is William: the sympathetic is the center of his being—the explanation of it all: the fire of his

W. explained: "That depression is not William: he defies all that: it is more likely to be Nellie: she

Bucke argues that William should go to some institution, where he can be better taken care of by able-bodied

"That is William: it sounds like him: it has his sangfroid, his nonchalance."

Sunday, March 27, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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like one of the grand classic pictures of gods, with the hands calmly folded and that strange yellow-white

Williams, Maud Ingersoll: San Francisco Cal 27th Place wreath for me marked "Un Pilori" letter follows.David

today owning to sickness but will be on hand at funeral please telegraph me arrangements.Francis H Williams

New York 27 My father in Buffalo will notify him.Maud Ingersoll Morris and Talcott Williams over today

To these men body and brain yielded unexpected fruits.Many callers in the day, Morris and Talcott Williams

Sunday, March 24, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"About William?"

I gave you a letter from William some days ago in which he spoke of Marvin.

["No: he will not last long: it is about a year now since that was written: William is, alas!

["He'll be a rich publisher some day, William, unless all the signs fail!"]

William used to say: 'Walt, you're entitled to it: nobody will do it for you: do it for yourself.'"

Sunday, March 17, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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anything new from William?" He said: "No—but that reminds me."

this four or five days ago: each day I have forgotten to give it to you: it's an old letter from William

["A little like death to me, too, William, since I was away! Oh those sacred evenings!"]

["It was not so written, William: but other things, perhaps better things, were written!"]

["And so it is, William—so it must be always: though there never was any Pathfinder—never were many things

Sunday, March 10, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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B. then said gravely: "We must not forget, Walt, that William is living right on the edge of the grave—that

W. again: "Surely, surely: William started out auspiciously, dynamically: never dissipated in any way

I interrupted—"You said that of the white man the other day."

Sunday, June 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had not yet written to William Carey. I urged, let me write.

Sunday, June 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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contribution to the record of your birthday—a draft for $19495 (£ 40) from Bessie & Isabella Ford, William

Said: "Tom was in—brought me the Tribune—got William's book."

Sunday, June 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The only thing that saves the Press from entire damnation is the presence of Talcott Williams.

Dear Whitman,William Rossetti has shown me your letter indicating annoyance at some telegram which has

Sunday, June 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"John and William." "John and William who?" "O'Connor—Burroughs.

Sunday, July 8, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I copy the letter from William Michael Rossetti given me by W. day before yesterday.London, 1 JanyJanuary

I thought of just a few of the fellows—William, John, Dowden, Symonds, others: thought of them—the thought

Sunday, July 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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That's what Talcott Williams says. He was here today with Mrs. Williams."

What I put into that little piece I got chiefly from Philbrick, a clerk at the White House, who was always

I did meet Hay in Washington during the war—talked with him frequently at the White House.

Sunday, July 19, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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O'Connor full of reminiscence, much of it now pathetic—with William and the children dead and so much

O'Connor says William took in "Leaves of Grass" from first look, though not with the whole mass of the

Her own first copy came by an odd way—from William Henry Channing, Boston, when she lived there, before

Sunday, July 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The volume was the result of some correspondence between William and Mrs. Pott.

Sunday, July 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As I told you, I was profoundly impressed by a couple of articles in the Fortnightly Review by Sir William

In the best health, we grow lean, Sir William Thompson says, like a man training for the ring.

How can white think well of black? And then, the anti-copperhead talk is still rampant here.

Sunday, January 6, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams,Attorney General.IXDepartment of Justice,Washington, June 30, 1874.

Williams,Attorney General.I asked W.: "Are they all the documents in the matter?"

Sunday, January 13, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Cooper has been coaxing, persuading, begging, entreating, commanding even William to go on with them

and I assented most heartily.Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, and I feel as if a large

The O'Connor home was my home: they were beyond all others—William, Nelly—my understanders, my lovers

My relations with Nelly and William were quite exceptional: extended to both phases—the personal, the

general: they were my unvarying partisans, my unshakable lovers—my espousers: William, Nelly: William

Sunday, January 12, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Furness, William Henry, though eighty-five, still preaches occasionally: preached last Sunday at Clifford's

It is so very tender and brilliant, so like William at his best, that I'dI would want to keep it here

I might say the same thing of William that I did of Mrs.

We at least have William's letters: there are many of them: they may console us in some part for what

O William: you can hit a thing like that off with absolute finality.

Sunday, February 24, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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become more impatient, restless: I have tried to have Nellie understand how much I need to know about William

Sunday, February 17, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As you know, I am mainly with them—with Donnelly, with William: but ciphers, three and two make five,

Sunday, February 10, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Poor William—poor me: I want him to live, I want him to die: "I can't think of being left in the world

Sunday, February 1, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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(Philadelphia Press, January 29, 1891.)Talcott Williams probably wrote it.

Sunday, December 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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This is the best translation: there is no other approaching it: it is by George William Curtis' wife's

criticisms of value, should such appear.I have not yet seen the February Fortnightly, nor the book William

Sunday, December 27, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Frank Williams had been over (we met him round the corner from W.'

Frank Williams to make a search. Bucke, instead of going tonight, will hold over till tomorrow.

Sunday, December 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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that is so: I believe this girl went to Mary Morris—William Morris's daughter—who has a genius, they

Sunday, December 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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eight"—pausing, repeating some names: "One for Addington Symonds: one for Buxton Forman: one for William

Sunday, December 15, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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there is an editorial much better than common, about Browning: written, I should say, by Talcott Williams

Sunday, August 5, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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is of a disposition to look with something of favor on my work—which I might say, quoting one of William's

Sunday, August 4, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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*(print 200 copies each card)—size of this white paper this sized card— card not very thick,—you are

Sunday, August 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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(W. says, "Yes, I guess I saw that letter—William had several from Newman about that time—all noble,

hand; innumerable Whitman newspaper excerpts which she designs for Bucke's collection; scrapbook of William's

W. says, "I am sure William was more right than John in all that.

How magnificent William had to be when he crossed swords with anyone!

O'Connor alive with anecdote and story—brings new pictures of William and W.

Sunday, August 3, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I am sure that was Talcott Williams'—Talcott can say such things when he wants to."

Sunday, August 19, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William has more right words for right places in him than any man I know of in America."

Sunday, August 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the Hicks and said: "It makes him look like a cross between an Injun and a Nigger, without a drop of white

Sunday, April 5, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had found Talcott Williams' letter asking about the actress visitor—clearing to me the matter of her

Please send answer in this envelope.As ever Devotedly yoursTalcott Williams W. declared that he was "

Sunday, April 29, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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You object to the Emperor Frederick William? Well—object: objection is right, too.

Sunday, April 27, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Learned of Frank Williams' mention of the latter in America this week but have not seen it yet.

Sunday, April 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William is quite as radical as Tucker though much less interested in political study—is more fond of

I stand in awe before William." Rhys once said to W. in reply to W.'

s question: "William Morris always mentioned you kindly, genially, in fine friendly fashion, admiringly

They like nice white hands, men and women. They are too much disturbed by dirt.

Sun Struck

  • Date: 28 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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William Baxter, living at No. 10 Franklin Place, died about 8 o'clock last evening from the effects of

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
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William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

"Summer Duck" or "Wood Duck" "wood drake" very gay, including in its colors white, red, yellow, green

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Suggestions and Advice to Mothers

  • Date: 11 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Elmina
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And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
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hieroglyphic,And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,Growing among black folks as among white

Studies Among the Leaves

  • Date: January 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

calmness and beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, yellow and white

Street Yarn

  • Date: 16 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Rusty black costume; white choker; look oddly compounded of severity, superiority, curiosity, apprehension

Dirty finery, excessively plentiful; paint, both red and white; draggle-tailed dress, ill-fitting; coarse

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

A well-built, portly old man, full, ruddy face, abundant wavy—almost frizzly—white hair, good forehead

It is the firm of William C.

Annotations Text:

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

Stoicism

  • Creator(s): Hutchinson, George
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It was to become particularly important to Marcus Aurelius in the period of Rome's decline, to William

Stoddard, Richard Henry (1825–1903)

  • Creator(s): Hynes, Jennifer A.
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In his satirical review of William Douglas O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet in the Round Table, Stoddard

Whitman speculated that Stoddard and New York Tribune drama critic William Winter had collaborated on

O'Connor, William. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

Rev. of The Good Gray Poet, by William Douglas O'Connor. Round Table 3 (1866): 37. Whitman, Walt.

Stevens, Oliver (b. 1825)

  • Creator(s): Hammond, Joseph P.
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Harvard, but his apparent silence in the face of abusive attacks in the press by Whitman's defender, William

William Douglas O'Connor: Walt Whitman's Chosen Knight. Athens: Ohio UP, 1985. Loving, Jerome.

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833–1908)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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that the seemingly innovative poetics was conventional, with roots in English Bible translations and William

Standish James O'Grady to Walt Whitman, 5 October 1881

  • Date: October 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Standish James O'Grady
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For myself I can safely say that except William Rolleston no reader or student of your poetry has studied

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

Splendid Churches

  • Date: 9 March 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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With its distinctive white marble exterior and Gothic Revival design, Grace Church occupied a dramatic

On the significance of Upjohn's architecture see especially William H.

Annotations Text:

With its distinctive white marble exterior and Gothic Revival design, Grace Church occupied a dramatic

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