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William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1888
intellectual stimulus that your poems have given to me, I am Most faithfully yours, Wm Morton Fullerton William
would take This side the earliest convenient opportunity to give my excuses & love to Mr and Mrs: Williams
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1888
Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.
Horace Traubel reports that Whitman asked two friends, William Sloane Kennedy and Dr.
whether Whitman read Swedenborg or simply was acquainted with him through other sources, most notably William
William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, [15] June 1883
me know what he says about the exstention I will close now good by from a friend and well wishes William
Williams has assigned me there—but several important bits of work have had to be done just now, & today
will be disfigured in that way—though we have got along pretty well thus far—I rec'd a letter from William
Church and William C. Church, 21 February 1868
O'Connor, William Douglas. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.
William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1884
for a weeks pleasure has just returned a day or two ago she had a nice time George spent a day at Williams
three weeks yet)—y'r letters rec'd (short but sweet)—J W W[allace]'s good letters rec'd too—expect T Williams
Walt Whitman Keep the proof two days after you get it if you wish Walt Whitman to William D.
William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1890
Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 June 1885
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.
the closed-up sutures in my cranium were opened as widely as if the brains were out, and a pint of white
Commented on Black and White, which I picked up from the floor.
elaborately wrought balustrades, columns, & steps—all of the most beautiful marbles I ever saw, some white
have any thing but a cup of tea & some bread or crackers, (first rate tea though with milk & good white
itself, now expanding, now narrowing—the glistening river with continual sloops, yachts, &c. their white
America, already brought to Hospital in her fair youth—brought and deposited here in this great, whited
I turned, and there in the doorway she stood, her tall figure, with a white turban on her head, her figure
Carlyle insists in his Occasional Discourse that blacks are naturally inferior to whites, and although
great wide avenue like Flatbush avenue, quite flat, & stretching as far as you can see, with a great white
mansions in spots peeping all along through the woods & shrubbery—with the sloops & yachts, with their white
public reception room, a large, tall, strongly-built man, with a tanned and scarlet face, plenteous white
He is about as handsome an old man as I have seen, his white locks parting over a serene and most noble
citizens underscores the popular displeasure with the contemporary squabbles between races, in the white
We, loose winrows, little corpses, Froth, snowy white, and bubbles, (See!
changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen William
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 5 August 1871
Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 September 1871
founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801 and was edited by abolitionist, poet, and Democratic partisan William
—& I will send you some impressions—I like it well— Best love to you Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
"circles" here— W W Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7–8 September 1889
special in it)—there I believe I have babbled enough —love to you & frau Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 26 October 1882
of going forth with horse & rig after dinner—God bless you and wife— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William
Talcott Williams gave me on Thursday evening two pictures of your house, inside & out, one shewing showing
William & Charlie had each had two letters from you, & I not a word, don't you know that I shall be jealous
rec'd a letter from you at Hobart which I sent on to Buck Bucke , with one from Eldridge, I read Williams
settled decided that Ing's address shall be in Phila :—just as well (I appreciate Horace's and Frank Williams
Dear comrade, I send you my love, & to William & Nelly, & remember me to Major [Hapgood] — Walt Walt
William Swinton is here in Washington, temporarily. He is interested in speculating in gold.
From comments by George Curtis on Drum-Taps to William Dean Howells's editorial on November Boughs, the