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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.

[On Saturday night]

  • Date: 11 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

news arrived that Maclay’s school bill, The Maclay Bill was named after its sponsor, Assemblyman William

On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!

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

(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread, I pass to snow-white

An Old Poet's Reception

  • Date: 15 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

An Old Landmark Gone

  • Date: 9 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

In time, it too gave place, and was also torn down, to make room for the present white marble church

William Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Walt Whitman.

Old Land Marks

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

This "constitution" allowed suffrage for all white (domestic and naturalized) males over twenty-one.

until 1843 that there was a new official state constitution that dropped the property requirement for white

The liberal party sided with Thomas Dorr, who advocated for suffrage for all white males (see previous

Annotations Text:

This "constitution" allowed suffrage for all white (domestic and naturalized) males over twenty-one.

until 1843 that there was a new official state constitution that dropped the property requirement for white

no.1 (1955), 24–50.; The liberal party sided with Thomas Dorr, who advocated for suffrage for all white

Old Ireland.

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

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland.

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

grave an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground, Her old white

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland.

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

grave an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground, Her old white

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland

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

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going

  • Date: 10 October 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then among the crowd you would see the tall stout shoulders of Joseph Sprague, with his white head; Before

"Old Age's Lambent Peaks" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

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

Of this broad and majestic

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

Later in the manuscript he writes of "the buckwheat and its white tops and the bees that hum there all

day," and on page 36 of the 1855 Leaves he writes of the "white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a

Of this broad and majestic

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

woods and all the orchards—the corn, with its ear and stalk s and tassel —the buckwheat with its sweet white

Annotations Text:

western persimmon. . . . over the longleaved corn and the delicate blue-flowered flax; / Over the white

of these poems

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1860
Text:

On the verso Whitman has copied two stanzas of English poet William Collins' The Passions.

of these poems

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman transcribed part of William Collins's "Ode on the Passions" on the back of this leaf. of these

Of The Weather

  • Date: 27 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the street the sun beats down in one concentrated glare, beneath which white men wince and wilt.

Now are Spring and Summer Raglans discarded, and white-gossamer fabrics take their place.

Of all the western stars

  • Date: After December 1885; December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Unknown
Text:

White, Ex-President of Cornell University wrote: "I have long believed that such schools are among the

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

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

Deshae E.LottO'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]Walt Whitman met

William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published

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

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]

O'Connor (Calder), Ellen ("Nelly") M. Tarr (1830–1913)

  • Creator(s): Lott, Deshae E.
Text:

Calder's first husband, William Douglas O'Connor (married 22 October 1856), invited Whitman to live with

Shortly after meeting O'Connor, she introduced him to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, which William

By William Douglas O'Connor. Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1927. i–ix. ———. Myrtilla Miner: A Memoir.

"William O'Connor and Walt Whitman." The Conservator 17 (1906): 42. Freedman, Florence Bernstein.

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

[O you whom I often and silently come where you are]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

often and silently come where you are]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

O Magnet-South.

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

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

O Magnet-South.

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

The cactus guarded with thorns, the laurel-tree with large white flowers, The range afar, the richness

Number VII

  • Date: 25 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Croton Reservoir was demolished in 1899 and replaced by the New York Public Library in 1911 (William

The tall white spire, the prolific tracery and ornament, and fret-work, make one wonder and ask how much

Number VI

  • Date: 18 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter, from Its Foundation to the Present Time [London: William

Number IV

  • Date: 4 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

East New York, spread out as flat as a pancake—Cypress Hills Cemetery, with its white-painted tower,

Number III

  • Date: 28 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

are tenacious of the place, and the places, from the brown sand of Napeague Beach, far east, to the white

Number I

  • Date: 14 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The firm fine-grained meat, white as snow, and of indescribable sweetness, of a good-sized blue-fish,

Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively

Compositor; a typesetter. the flashing of the white bones in the sunlight, and the ornamental flourishes

very voracious creature; so voracious that, instead of a bait, we fasten a piece of bone, or even a white

Annotations Text:

Calomel, or mercurial chloride, an odorless, tasteless, yellowish-white mineral paste, was used extensively

November Boughs

  • Date: 2 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Walsh, William S.
Text:

manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical, that "William

William O'Connor and Dr.

We have no concern with William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke. If we have concern with Mr.

wants something newer and better than the old poetry, and that his poetry is not an achievement (William

All this is granted by us, or rather spontaneously asserted, and if William O'Connor and Dr.

'November Boughs'

  • Date: April 1889
  • Creator(s): Carpenter, Edward
Text:

old man, through crippled somewhat in his gait by paralysis, well over six feet in height, with long white

Notes on Whitman's Photographers

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

William Kurtz : 1834–1904, born and raised in Germany.

William S. Pendleton : New York and Brooklyn photographer.

Phillips (1843–1911) and William Curtis Taylor (1825–1905) ever were partners.

Sophia Williams : 1850–1928.

Williams was a writer and the wife of the editor of the Philadelphia Press , Talcott Williams, whom Whitman

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

I step softly over to him, and find by his card that he is named William Cone, of the 1st Maine cavalry

Crossing the fields in summer he would gather a great bunch of dandelion blossoms, and red and white

For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in

the coffin—I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin."

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William

White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978).

it is of limited interest and value (e.g., Whitman's factual notes on geography in volume 5); even William

White questioned whether lists of melons and other meaningless or only partially legible fragments should

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978. ____.

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

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

hurry in and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

and out, Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe sum- mer summer , bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes.

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

sea-waves hurry in and out, Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white

The North American Review to Walt Whitman, 10 January 1891

  • Date: January 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): The North American Review
Text:

Review per t Whitman drew a line through this letter and wrote his January 20–21, 1891, letter to William

North American Review, The

  • Creator(s): Pannapacker, William A.
Text:

William A.PannapackerNorth American Review, TheNorth American Review, TheA miscellany of politics, economics

Rev. of Venetian Life, by William Dean Howells.

"Noiseless Patient Spider, A" (1868)

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4.4 (1987): 29–31.White, Fred D. "Whitman's Cosmic Spider."

[Ninety-five in the shade]

  • Date: 28 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The streets have broken out into an eruption of white indispensables and hot weather caput-coverings,

Night Poem.

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

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunk- ards drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

Newspaperial Etiquette

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

White, 1840], 753). themselves on their "influence."

Government Printing Office, 1884], 90; William Huntzicker, Popular Press, 1833–1865 [Westport, CT: Greenwood

Annotations Text:

White, 1840], 753).; Whitman's sarcastic comment is poking fun at the self-perceived influence of New

[New York visit]

  • Date: 1878
Text:

The essay was reprinted with revisions as Death of William Cullen Bryant in Specimen Days in 1882.

New York Sunday Dispatch

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

Williamson (1823–1867) and William Burns (1818–1850) founded the Sunday Dispatch in 1846 as a weekly

Williamson and William Burns were arrested sometime before December 11, 1849 as part of a libel suit

The New York Press

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

William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) served as the editor of the Evening Post for nearly fifty years, from

Stone is a good writer, William Leete Stone (1792–1844) was the editor of the Commercial Advertiser from

New Era and Whitman's poem published there, see Wendy Katz, "A Newly Discovered Whitman Poem About William

New York Evening Post

  • Creator(s): Widmer, Ted
Text:

Its first editor was William Coleman, who served until 1829, when the reins were passed to William Cullen

New York Evening Post

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Jason Stacy
Text:

founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 and was edited by abolitionist, poet, and Democratic partisan William

New York City

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
Text:

Sharpe, William Chapman. Unreal Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1990. Spann, E.K.

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