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Search : William White

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Tuesday, March 5, 1889

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

Again: "Hugo is one of William's enthusiasms: he often used to talk of it."

Bucke said: ""William is subject to crazy enthusiasms." I said to W. "Were they crazy?"

W. laughed: "Maurice is wrong: Maurice himself is more likely to do that thing than William: it is odd

for such a characterization: quite the contrary: William always has the best of reasons for whatever

Great are Talcott Williams and Thomas Donaldson, and blessed be their names.

Radicalism

  • Creator(s): Panish, Jon
Text:

Grass reflects his humanitarian belief in the value of all human beings, his deepest sympathy was with white

important issue for Whitman because of its potentially devastating effect on the status and livelihood of white

Leaves of Grass is compared to the work of Whitman's poetic contemporaries—John Greenleaf Whittier, William

cottonwood

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

cottonwood—mulberry— chickadee—large brown water-dog— —black-snake—garter snake— —vinegar-plums—persimmon— — wh white-blossom

place with a pistol and killed himself, and I came that way and stumbled upon him locust, birch with white

reckon think mind less you very are a good manure —but that I do not smell— —I smell the your beautiful white

Annotations Text:

and "And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, / I smell the white

Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1874

  • Date: October 6, 1874
  • Creator(s): Isabella A. White
Text:

things since, but would be glad if you would have them removed soon Yours Respectfully Mrs Isabella A White

White Oct. 74 Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1874

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

Friday, November 22, 1889

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

On Keats, Byron, Kirke White, others, this scurrility, abuse, contempt, was bestowed.

No one can know it as I know it—not my nearest friends of the old days—not even William O'Connor, not

"Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" (1872)

  • Creator(s): Losey, Jay
Text:

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

"Wound-Dresser, The" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Aspiz, Harold
Text:

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Canada, Whitman's Visit to

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

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

[White Butterflies]

  • Date: 1878–1882
Text:

140ucb.00068xxx.00959Over the glistening bronze brook[White Butterflies]1878–1882prose3 leaveshandwritten

[White Butterflies]

The Mask thrown off

  • Date: 7 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839], 732). from Austrian monasteries—be permitted thus to dictate what Tammany Tammany, fully

From Scene II, Act III of William Shakespeare's Macbeth .

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 732).; Tammany, fully known as Tammany Hall, was the political machine of the Democratic

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.

[Unidentified Sender] to A. S. H. White, 16 January 1871

  • Date: January 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Unidentified | Walt Whitman
Text:

White, Esq. Acting Chief Clerk of the Department of the Interior. ☞ See Ins. B'k B. p. 23...

White, 16 January 1871

Laura Lyon White to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1891

  • Date: January 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Laura Lyon White
Text:

admiringly reads your writings, and who fancies she feels their spirit Sincerely Yours Laura Lyon White

Laura Lyon White to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1891

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

  • Date: March 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

Gleeson White Christchurch. Hants England. Mar 4. 1889 My dear Sir.

Faith fully yours Gleeson White see notes Nov. 2 1890 Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

[The ball-room was swept]

  • Date: about 1860
Text:

12tex.00011xxx.00705The Ballroom was swept and the floor white…[The ball-room was swept]about 1860poetry1

leafhandwritten; Three lines of a poem beginning "The ball-room was swept, and the floor white."

Cassius M. Clay to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1887

  • Date: July 9, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cassius M. Clay
Text:

White Hall, Ky. 7-9-1887 My dear Mr.

Annotations Text:

The envelope also includes the following return address: C, Clay: White Hall, Ky.

Walt Whitman to Isabella Ford, 8 December 1883

  • Date: December 8, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:325).

Reconciliation.

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

again, this soil'd world; 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, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Reconciliation.

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

again, this soil'd world; 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, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Reconciliation

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

again, this soil'd world: …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

Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 29 July 1874

  • Date: July 29, 1874
  • Creator(s): Isabella A. White
Text:

White Mrs. White July 29 Isabella A. White to Walt Whitman, 29 July 1874

['76 White Horse]

  • Date: 1876
Text:

154ucb.00055xxx.00811Cloudy and Coolish['76 White Horse]1876prose2 leaveshandwritten; A Draft fragment

–1883) as part of Autumn Side-Bits, which was later collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). ['76 White

Reconciliation.

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

again, this soil'd world: …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

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1891

  • Date: June 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

sycamores & mountain ashes, overlooking a wide expanse of pastoral country dotted with old time, grey & white

In the middle distance lay the lake, to purple waters sparkling in the sunshine & rippling in tiny white-crested

At our feet lay the white roadway & the grey stone work of the low-arched bridge at one end of which

Upon the lovely landscape the sun shone with dazzling effulgence from out the white-cloud-flecked empyrean

Amos T. Akerman to the President [Ulysses S. Grant], 18 August 1871

  • Date: August 18, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitely, for use in the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, in New York.

Whitely, N. Y.

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

  • Date: November 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

purpose, and to thank you as one who has already found a friend in your works faithfully yours Gleeson White

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1890

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 9 October 1848

  • Date: October 9, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Joseph White was nabbed yesterday for attacking a German, at 1 o'clock in the morning, and robbing him

Edwin Williams, of much fame in "Registers" and statistics, for the office of Register of the county.

"Sands at Seventy" (First Annex) (1888)

  • Creator(s): Stauffer, Donald Barlow
Text:

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

London, Ontario, Canada

  • Creator(s): Cederstrom, Lorelei
Text:

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____. Specimen Days. Vol. 1 of Prose Works 1892.

Whitman, Walter, Sr. [1789–1855]

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
Text:

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 13 November 1878

  • Date: November 13, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Since that was written a friend (Walter White) tells me they—the Tennysons—have taken a house in Eaton

Annotations Text:

Walter White had been a friend of Anne Gilchrist's late husband, Alexander Gilchrist.

Walt Whitman to Wallace Wood, 3 March 1891

  • Date: March 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

See William White's article in The American Book Collector, XI (May, 1961), 30–31, where Wood's second

Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 6 January 1881

  • Date: January 6, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224).

Defining "Our Position"

  • Date: 30 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]). This piece is unsigned.

Annotations Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

Collectors and Collections, Whitman

  • Creator(s): Birney, Alice L.
Text:

Harned group in the Library of Congress.Some other early collectors of note were John Burroughs, William

Buxton Forman, William F. Gable, Alfred F.

Goldsmith, William Sloane Kennedy, Thomas Bird Mosher, John Quinn, William M. Rossetti, Edmund C.

New York, N.Y.; Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; William

William White edited the commonplace books and some notebooks in Walt Whitman: Daybooks and Notebooks

Amos T. Akerman to D. J. Baldwin, 13 December 1871

  • Date: December 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting for complicity with Capt. W. G.

Gen'l. sue Whiting criminally The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

  • Date: October 12, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
Text:

French cooks poke their white caps from the kitchen windows of costly villas, and French millinery adorns

Very truly William R. Thayer. P.S.

William Roscoe Thayer to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1885

Patroling Barnegat.

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

piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

Patroling Barnegat.

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

piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

Cassius M. Clay to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1891

  • Date: January 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Cassius M. Clay
Text:

White Hall, Ky.

I remain yours truly Cassius Marcellus Clay Walt Whitman Esq. see | notes | April 1 st | 1891 White Hall

Annotations Text:

On the lower left Clay has written: "White Hall: | ky. | C. Clay."

"Fireman's Dream, The" (1844)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

The Native American was found by white pioneers when he was about seven.

opposite that of Natty Bumppo of The Pioneers (1823) and other James Fenimore Cooper novels, who is a white

The first sentences of chapter 2 establish the duality: "I am white by education and an Indian by birth

Literary Notices

  • Date: 10 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As full and fine scenery and properties are to the acting of Macready William Charles Macready (1793–

of which the Pictorial England is among the neatest......No. 6 opens with the drowning of Prince William

Prince William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in

the White Ship tragedy (November 25th, 1120) trying to save his half–sister. and his sister Matilda

(1103–1120), Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I and half–sister to Prince William

Annotations Text:

William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in the White

Thomas B. Freeman to Walt Whitman, 13 May 1877

  • Date: May 13, 1877
  • Creator(s): Thomas B. Freeman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:32, 36, and 56.

Women as a Theme in Whitman's Writing

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

accomplishing his aims, to portray "democratic" women, as well as men, black, brown, and red as well as white

create an expansive space for women, something very much against the grain of his times, at least for white

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

Public School Training

  • Date: 5 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting for the exclusion from the list of studies prescribed for our public schools of such branches

Whiting’s resolution that they are, the poor—for whom mainly the schools are designed—reap no benefit

Whiting’s resolution will not be summarily ignored—but that it will provoke at least discussion and inquiry

Silas S. Soule to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1862

  • Date: March 12, 1862
  • Creator(s): Silas S. Soule
Text:

Canby had only eight hundred white men and one Reg of Mexicans under the renowned Kit Carson .

Sibley had three thousand men our white men done all the fighting for the Mexicans broke and ran at the

miles farther before they slept and they did  they started off singing the Star spangled banner, Red White

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 12 November 1890

  • Date: November 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

an appendix—possibly print it spring or before God bless you & frau Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Tuesday, August 25, 1891

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

That the horror of slavery was not in what it did for the nigger but in what it produced of the whites

For we quite clearly saw that the white South, if the thing continued, would go to the devil—could not

And, "We had stormy times then, but William and I always thought ours the most comprehensive—what would

Samuel S. Frayer to Lorenzo Thomas, 21 July 1863

  • Date: July 21, 1863
  • Creator(s): Samuel S. Frayer
Text:

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

Annotations Text:

Though they received older uniforms, worse equipment, and lower pay than white soldiers, and were barred

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