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Search : William White

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William Stewart to S. W. J. Tabor, 2 December 1865

  • Date: December 2, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to Samuel C. Fessenden, 2 December 1865

  • Date: December 2, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to William B. Hill, 26 August 1865

  • Date: August 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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Stewart to William B.

William Stewart to D. W. Yandell, 1 September 1865

  • Date: September 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to John Brown, 15 December 1865

  • Date: December 15, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to Charles C. Fulton & Son, 17 March 1866

  • Date: March 17, 1866
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to T. & J. W. Johnson & Co., 15 December 1865

  • Date: December 15, 1865
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to James Harlan, 9 April 1866

  • Date: April 9, 1866
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
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William Stewart to Isaac Hartman, 12 April 1866

  • Date: April 12, 1866
  • Creator(s): William Stewart | Walt Whitman
Text:

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Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White pine abounds in the northern part, and white and red oak on the coast.

Roger Williams, First Settler of Rhode Island.

Both of these monuments are of white marble.

Along the White River, the St.

The name of William B.

Dates referring to China

  • Date: Around June 23, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Silk is plenty— they have a kind of white coarse stuff of grass, that makes, for foreigners very good

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— All white working men, South as well as north are or ought to be against them; for the establishment

from the ancles ankles legs of the slave,—if his breast then feel no more the blood whether black or white

seize with violence on what our laws only know, until duly advised different, as peaceful Americans, white

wretched countrymen of mine, born and bred on American soil, his father or grandfather very likely a white

distinctness every syllable the flounderer

  • Date: 1840s or early 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

every syllable the flounderer spoke, up to his hips in the snow, and blinded by the cutting sharp white

crystals making that made the air densely one opaque white.

Of a summer evening a

  • Date: Before 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—And many 2 a time again approached he to the coffin, and held up the white linen, and gazed and gazed

I know as well as

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white

Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

The Child's Champion

  • Date: November 20, 1841
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She who sat on the door-step was a widow; her neat white cap covered locks of gray, and her dress though

The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist

  • Date: May 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"The old occupants of this place," continued the white-haired narrator, "were well off in the world,

His cheeks were white with excitement; ferocity gleamed in every look and limb; and the frightened Gills

"All white!"

continued the miserable, conscience-stricken creature; "all white, and with the grave-clothes around

The Tomb-Blossoms

  • Date: January 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I stopped and leaned my back against the fence, with my face turned toward the white marble stones a

White hairs, and pale blossoms, and stone tablets of Death!

The Last of the Sacred Army

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

length of years seldom vouchsafed to his kind; and his head was thinly covered with hair of a silvery whiteness

assured him I was not jesting, he began telling me of former times, and how it came to be that this white-haired

In a short time, as the white-haired ancient was out of sight, the square was cleared, and I stood in

The Angel of Tears

  • Date: September 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

clouds about him, might not be contemned condemned , even by the Princes of the Nighest Circle to the White

Swaying above the prostrate mortal, the Spirit bends his white neck, and his face is shaded by the curls

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Shade —An twenty-five old men old man with rapid gestures—eyes black and flashing like lightning—long white

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

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Annotations Text:

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

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

anticipate the following lines in the preface to the 1855 : "Little or big, learned or unlearned, white

body and lie in the coffin" (1855, p. 72). + The sepulchre Observing the shroud The sepulchre and the white

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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/ My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard, / My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of

gave him not one inch, but held on and night near the helpless fogged wreck, over leaf How the lank white

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Learning far out of an open window, appeared a white draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

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

"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,

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites. Arrow-Tip smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of those white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

to grounds where they never would be annoyed, in their generation at least, by the presence of the white

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Edmund Spenser: born about 1553—died 1599.

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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unworldly, abstracted, contemplative in the highest degree—loving high themes— princeliness, purity, white

This list of one week's

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 16 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sub-marine excavator: William Kennish Brooklyn, N.Y., assignor to Andrew B. Gray, San Diego, Cal.

One Thousand Historical Events

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dismal, 1035 85 Battle of Hastings—William I. conquered.

Odious judge, 1066 86 France ravaged by William the Conqueror.

*Ishmael, NUMERICAL KEY. 37 37 Rhode Island settled by Roger Williams.

Dutch copy, 1679 82 William Penn settled Pennsylvania.

White chasm, 1703 11 The first newspaper printed in North America.

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

Poem

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

titled "Song of Myself," first published as the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The white-topped

Africa (The Equator

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

miles the Congo, (1000 miles or more, emptying into the Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white

black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River , away down in Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile

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

The mountain‑ash

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

The mountain‑ash, a large shrub, 16 or 2 0 ft high—northern part of the state of New York —has white

blossoms—blooms early in the spring—has then a pleasant perfume—the hill‑sides where it grows thickly look white

More about William Blake

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

More about William Blake—I met R.W.

More about William Blake

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am a white man by education and an Indian by birth.

They had heard of the tricks of the cunning savages to lure the whites to destruction; and were somewhat

Sometimes I think that my tribe might have been destroyed in war, either with the whites or with people

The Death of Wind-Foot

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

HREE hundred years ago—so heard I the tale, not long since, from the mouth of one educated like a white

Dumb Kate.—an Early Death

  • Date: May 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There stands a little white stone at the head, and the grass In Collect , "the grass" is replaced by

Eris; A Spirit Record

  • Date: March 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

themselves might well be drunken to gaze thereon—with fleecy robes that but half apparel a maddening whiteness

The delicate ones bent their necks, and shook as if a chill blast had swept by—and white robes were drawn

The Little Sleighers. A Sketch of a Winter Morning on the Battery

  • Date: September 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This huge, white sheet, glancing back a kind of impudent defiance to the sun, which shone sharply the

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Annotations Text:

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

The Boy-Lover

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

We took our seats round the same clean, white table, and received our favorite beverage in the same bright

placid face, and the same untrembling fingers—him that seventh day saw a clay-cold corpse, shrouded in white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dame a drink of water, he, ten months afterwards, frightened the woman half to death, by wrapping a white

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

He and a younger brother, named from his swiftness the Deer, frequently had intercourse with the white

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