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A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

A Sight in Camp in the Day-Break Grey and Dim

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then to the third—a face nor child, nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory: Young man

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory; Young man

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 31 January 1888

  • Date: January 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1888

  • Date: February 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Annotations Text:

Rechel-White, "Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894)," (Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, eds. J.R.

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1888

  • Date: September 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Text:

The boulevards stretching miles miles white & clean— yea , as far as the eye can reach, make me stop

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1888

  • Date: June 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Text:

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

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1888

  • Date: March 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Text:

During the noon interruption between 1st 2nd parts, they will (draped in white with powdered faces &

Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

At the word, the white vestments wherewith they had bound S HIRVAL began to move.

His limbs felt the wondrous impulse—he rose, and stood up among them, wrapped in his shroud and the white

Ship Ahoy!

  • Date: January 2, 1891
Text:

On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to Whitman from William S.

"Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Collmer, Robert G.
Text:

(1856) by William Henry Smith.

the ostent"—the universal spirit that breathes throughout nature and persons.BibliographyFriedman, William

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)

  • Creator(s): McBride, Phyllis
Text:

PhyllisMcBrideShakespeare, William (1564–1616)Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) The author of two lyric

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)

Settlers and Indian Battles

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 22 March 1856; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown | Henry David Thoreau
Text:

How beautiful its clusters of pink and white blossoms are, and how delightfully fragrant!

The squirrel cups vary in color, some being white, others pink, and others still bluish or lilac-colored

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

hundred in all) came over to Massachusetts, in the Mayflower, under the spiritual guidance of Elder William

September 11, 12, 13—1850

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Her father was Major Van Velsor, and her mother's name Naomi Williams.— Capt.

Williams had his wife, her parents, fine old couple, exceedingly generous— I remember them both (my mother's

—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,

Sentiment and a Saunter

  • Date: 13 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As we passed Colman's, William Colman's bookstore was likely located at 203 Broadway.

See The Plays of William Shakspeare , ed. Samuel Maunder (London: J.W.

Self-Reviews of the 1855 Leaves, Whitman's Anonymous

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

In a review of the 1856 Leaves, William Swinton of the New York Times identified Whitman's hand in the

"Whitman and William Swinton." American Literature 30 (1959): 425–449.Holloway, Emory.

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

A friend of mine, William D.

William E.]

William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919).

William F.Channing (1820-r9or), the brother-in-law of Ellen O'Connor and son of William Ellery Channing

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:424. 48.

Seas and Lands, Chapter VI: Men and Cities

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Edwin Arnold | Sir Edwin Arnold, M. A., K. C. I. E., C. S. I.
Text:

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

Scythia (as Used by the Greeks)

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kashmir , or a country farther east, is not easily determined—but it seems that, accordingly, the white

Sculptors and Sculpture

  • Creator(s): Bohan, Ruth L.
Text:

Whitman much preferred Morse's bust to the painted portraits of either John White Alexander or Herbert

In the last year of Whitman's life Samuel Murray and William R.

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Vol. 6. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.Whitman, Walt.

Scott & Williams to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1867

  • Date: August 14, 1867
  • Creator(s): Scott & Williams
Text:

OFFICE OF SCOTT & WILLIAMS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 24 BEEKMAN STREET, New York , Aug 14th 186 7 Walt

Your earliest attention will much oblige Yours Respectfully Scott & Williams for Kent P.S.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Beverley Rilett Scott & Williams to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1867

The Schools' Holiday

  • Date: 18 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Now, a little nymph, with her white pantalettes, and gypsey hat, A brimmed hat with a low crown. and

The School Question

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A bill written by William B.

Maclay (1812–1882), a New York Democrat, as a response to Governor William Seward's (1802–1872) call

The School Bill

  • Date: 29 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William Seward (1801–1872), as governor of New York, passed the so-called Maclay Bill to increase funding

The Maclay Bill was written by William B.

The School Bill

  • Date: 8 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

During Whitman's tenure at the Aurora , the Post editor was the poet and abolitionist William Cullen

See William C. Gover, The Tammany Hall Democracy of the City of New York (New York: Martin B.

Scholarship, Trends in Whitman

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

The first defender was William Douglas O'Connor, whose famous 1866 pamphlet The Good Gray Poet argued

bibliographical scholarship, the same cumulative effect has been achieved, thanks to such scholars as William

White, Arthur Golden, Scott Giantvalley, Donald Kummings, Joel Myerson, and the various editors of the

Scenes of Last Night

  • Date: 1 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Wisdom mentioned by Whitman is Captain William A.

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

scene in the woods on

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hospital Note Book Walt Whitman This prose narrative (probably describing the battle of White Oak Swamp

scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine) after the battle of White

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Annotations Text:

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Scantlings. White

Text:

White

The Scalpel

  • Date: 12 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

paleness of the skin and mucous membranes; the lips lose their natural florid hue; the ears are cold, white

Saturday, September 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The American white and the Southern black will mix but not ally.

Now, the Southern white does not encourage such intermixtures: there are psychological, physiological

They are a study, too—the poor whites South: lank, sallow coughing, spitting, with no bellies (and bellies

Swinburne's new book upon William Blake, poet and artist—a great but neglected genius who was counted

Saturday, September 29th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Reddest murder is white to an act like this and its folly is equal to its crime.

William thought it 'a trifle weak', but I don't think it so. I can't always be a roaring lion!"

Saturday, September 28, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

O'Connor of William. "I sent it to her a while ago—now she sends it back.

She had asked me about a picture of William to have engraved—she says she has this.

Saturday, September 22nd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Don't you see, you're a dangerous lot—William, down in Washington, and Bucke, and Horace here, with enough

Saturday, September 20, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I told him Frank Williams was in to see me. "And he was opposed to Ingersoll, wasn't he?"

Saturday, September 19, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

And as this led to mention of Pope's Homer, W. said, "William O'Connor always called that a travesty—but

Saturday, September 15th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The Record speaks of Talcott Williams as a free trader in disguise.

"Ingram, Tom—William Ingram: they came down from the country. Let's open one shall we?

Saturday, September 13, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

O, if only William O'Connor were alive! How he would take up a lance for him!

And he would say that Tolstoi's picture was true, too, for William knew all those things well—had as

Saturday, September 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Affectionately,William D.

O'Connor.Here is what W. said of O'Connor: "William is the last of his race—no one is left but William

Burroughs thinks William too strenuous—keyed up monotonously too high—but I do not.

To me William is self-justified in the truest sense of the word.

William's onslaught is terrifying—it always means business."

Saturday, October 6th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

You would not guess such a thing from William's appearance.

If you do go, you must see William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless Dante Rossetti

Saturday, October 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I see he has cut the leaves out of Bucke's black-bound annual report, pasted a sheet of white paper over

Saturday, October 3, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

This was William Potter of Philadelphia, who was one of Wanamaker's delegates to the Congress—one of

Saturday, October 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I remarked: "This week I have read in Harper's Weekly an article on Jefferson by William Winter."

Saturday, October 24, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Frank Williams there—later Jastrow—later still Morris.

Williams told me this. Lincoln Eyre's mother, Mrs.

Williams astonished and pleased.

I promise, knowing W. has copies and would do it, and that Frank Williams could nowhere else get them

Liked Williams immensely. On way to Philadelphia we made notes on boat.

Saturday, October 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

B. for Talcott Williams—endorsed it.

Saturday, October 19, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

that: a clientage of the orthodox fellows—the regulation literary men—the men of the Richard Grant White

Saturday, October 17, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

though disappointed in many of our public men, he knew Grant—yes, from the first: went down to the White

pointing out the envelope's inscription: "Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson introducing Walt Whitman to William

Wallace gave us an idea of a white light (carbon?) used by him. Would not that serve for W.?

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