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Search : William White

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Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 4 November 1871

  • Date: November 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Melanie Krupa Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 7 December 1871

  • Date: December 7, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Amos T. Akerman to William H. H. Ambrough, 31 May 1871

  • Date: May 31, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Akerman to William H. H. Ambrough, 31 May 1871

Amos T. Akerman to Louis E. Johnson, 10 November 1871

  • Date: November 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Cantrell, William Walker, R. B. Scay, Isaiah Hines, Ben. Wyatt, W. A. Henderson, W. J. Hines, C. C.

Amos T. Akerman to Henry P. Rolfe, 1 December 1871

  • Date: December 1, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Second Auditor however has shown me your communication to him from which it appears that the party is William

Amos T. Akerman to H. H. Wells, 16 December 1871

  • Date: December 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

about by interested parties, who desire to weaken the force of the prosecution for smuggling against William

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
Text:

.00048Autobiographical DataBetween 1848 and 1856prosepoetry10 leaveshandwritten; Photostats, made for William

James Speed to William H. Seward, 10 August 1865

  • Date: August 10, 1865
  • Creator(s): James Speed | Walt Whitman
Text:

file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen James Speed to William

Andrew Johnson to William Reynolds, Jr., or Lizinka C. Ewell, 17 July 1865

  • Date: July 17, 1865
  • Creator(s): Andrew Johnson | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Andrew Johnson to William

Sunday, April 27, 1890

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

Learned of Frank Williams' mention of the latter in America this week but have not seen it yet.

Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

  • Date: About 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

On the back of this manuscript is an undated letter to Whitman from Talcott Williams.

Right for Once

  • Date: 17 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— The Herald of this morning has, strange to say, the magnanimity to declare that “William C.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1888

  • Date: February 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1888

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1891

  • Date: March 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Kimball for the Life Saving Report of the year that William died.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 22 October 1868

  • Date: October 22, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in a quiet way—am going on to New York this afternoon, & shall be back in Washington on the 27th— William

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 29 April 1867

  • Date: April 29, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

April 29, 1867 Dear brother Jeff, I heard by William O'Connor of the St.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 21 February 1887

  • Date: February 21, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Had a drive yesterday thro' a splendid snowstorm— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 1 March 1887

  • Date: March 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

W[ilson] & McC[ormick] partnership, Glasgow, but sets up by himself— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, [4 October 1887]

  • Date: October 4, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

photo. for you soon too—One from Cox's (N Y) I call it the laughing philosopher— W W Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 13 July 1887

  • Date: July 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

projected "Society"—As I close every thing is faint & still with the heat— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 23 December 1890

  • Date: December 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 23 December 1890

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John William Lloyd
Text:

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1888

  • Date: October 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

Wm D.O'Connor See notes Oct 11, 1888 William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1888

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Text:

Always affectionately WD.O'C see notes Dec 9 1888 William D.

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1885

  • Date: October 6, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Rossetti. from W M Rossetti 6 Oct. '85 | enclosing p o order £37.12 William Michael Rossetti to Walt

William Robinson to Walt Whitman, On or Before 6 December [1891?]

  • Date: On or Before December 6, [1891?]
  • Creator(s): William Robinson
Text:

Truly yours, Wm Robinson Wm Robinson (ask'g autograph) William Robinson to Walt Whitman, On or Before

Dr. William Reeder to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

  • Date: November 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
Text:

William Reeder to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1888

  • Date: November 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

All quiet here—a long letter from William Gurd today—all going well with him and the meter but it goes

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, [10 February] 1888

  • Date: [February 10], 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Your friend R M Bucke Bucke wrote this letter on the back of Whitman's February 11, 1888, letter to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 10 October 1889

  • Date: October 10, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or feverish ) waters are continually coming or whence they are going Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Richard Maurice Bucke to [Walt Whitman], 15 June 1889

  • Date: June 15, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

as I know but it seems slow work Love to you R M Bucke Whitman wrote his June 17, 1889, letter to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 25 February 1887

  • Date: February 25, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 25 February 1887

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 3 December [1883]

  • Date: December 3, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

B—he always wants to hear from you— Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 3 December [1883]

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 11 April 1873

  • Date: April 11, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 23 May 1883

  • Date: May 23, 1883
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

Goodbye, Always affectionately W.D.O'C Walt Whitman William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 23 May 1883

Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

SELECTED AND EDITED WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI.

TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT.

with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Written by William Shakespeare, 1600.

By the late William Makepeace Thackeray.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

fruitstand . . . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . . . the white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy

Friday, January 25, 1889

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

Fellows: he was an uncommon man both in what he looked like and in what he was: nobly formed, with thick white

hair—white as milk: beard: striking characteristics everyhow."

Thursday, August 2, 1888.

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

brief experience in the South—an intimate experience while it lasted—was convinced that the 'poor white

The horrible patois attributed to the 'poor white' there in the South (and not to them only—to Western

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

might have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white

The poet's hair and whiskers were fleecy, shining, white and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 25 May 1890
  • Creator(s): Foster Coates and Homer Fort | Foster Coates | Homer Fort
Text:

His long white hair fell partly over his face. And such a face!

A clean white counterpane was neatly spead over it and tucked in carefully at the side.

Sunday, July 19, 1891

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

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

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.

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

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!"

City Photographs

  • Date: 16 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hammersley, who served an equally long time; William Hammersley was one of the earliest physicians and

It is a large apartment, very clean of course, white-washed, with high-ceilings, well-lighted, perhaps

Leaves of Grass, 1891–92 edition

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Sunday, January 12, 1889.

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

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.

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

pass up or down, white-sail'd schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

What is that little black thing I see there in the white? Loud! loud! loud!

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!

Matthew F. Pleasants to William Price, 10 October 1866

  • Date: October 10, 1866
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

Pleasants to William Price, 10 October 1866

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