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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

John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1891

  • Date: December 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): John William Lloyd
Text:

J Wm Lloyd John William Lloyd to Walt Whitman, 1 December 1891

William Carey to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891

  • Date: December 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Carey
Text:

Yours sincerely William Carey 5 December 1891 William Carey to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891

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

William Carey to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1891

  • Date: December 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Carey
Text:

I hope you will live to great many new years Yours sincerely William Carey 8 December 1891 William Carey

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

  • Date: 12 December 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

On another side is the bed with white coverlid and woollen blankets.

William H. Neidlinger to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1891

  • Date: December 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): William H. Neidlinger
Text:

W H Neidlinger see notes Dec 22 1891 William H. Neidlinger to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1891

Review of Leaves of Grass (1891–92)

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

eminent and distinguished subject-matter: Lowell's 'Choice Odes, Lyrics, and Sonnets,' in a setting of white

Autobiographia: Starting Newspapers (Another Account)

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

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

It was far more primitive and ancient then my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street

Men and Memories

  • Date: 16 January 1892
  • Creator(s): John Russell Young
Text:

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I look where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin, and draw near.

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

The Good Grey Poet

  • Date: 4 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

among a very few, and was only beginning to make its way into England, chiefly owing to the help of William

heavy-lidded firm blue eyes, which had a steadfast and dreamy regard; a short thick grey beard almost white

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 February 1892

  • Date: February 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

transparent haze of the warm after- afternoon noon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy in contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard.

Williams— It has become almost fashion to say that Walt Whitman lacks form, and that his method of expressing

Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

  • Date: March 1, 1892
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. and William A. Avery
Text:

Margaretta & William A. Avery. Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

Albert C. Hopkins to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1892

  • Date: March 14, 1892
  • Creator(s): Albert C. Hopkins
Text:

for the stars, the centre representing the Central government or Capital, from which radiate in the white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1892

  • Date: March 26, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Reminiscences of Whitman

  • Date: 11 April 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

Walt Whitman

  • Date: May 1892
  • Creator(s): William H. Garrison
Text:

the sporting event to sit in admiration of a clump of green trees that outlined themselves against a white

"How the white background sets off the many shades of the green leaves!"

, and this the poet has always been, that the "Whit" may either be the Saxon "wit" or "wisdom" or "white

" in the sense of his being a "white" man, but that the essence of the whole name lies in the last syllable

William H. Garrison . Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

An Impression of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar and long white

Walt Whitman in Boston

  • Date: August 1892
  • Creator(s): Sylvester Baxter
Text:

and beloved among actors; for many of the famous figures of the American stage have known it, and William

William T.

Passing under some arc-lights in the street, on our way back from the theatre, he remarked: "This white

A most scathing letter from William Douglas O'Connor was published, consigning Mr.

Probably the most intimate and devoted of Whitman's younger friends in Boston was William Sloane Kennedy

Complete Prose Works

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

My old pilot friends, the Balsirs, Johnny Cole, Ira Smith, William White, and my young ferry friend,

—everything so white, so marbly pure and dazzling, yet soft—the White House of future poems, and of dreams

One Delaware soldier, William H.

Williams, aged 21, 3d Virginia cavalry.

White, however, is the prevailing color.

In RE Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman at Date

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

on his way without coat, vest, or suspenders, distinguished from afar by the glimpse of a spotless white

I went to him once with William M. Salter.

He likes William Legget's formula, that "the world is governed too much."

In RE Walt Whitman: Round Table with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

Harned, Francis Howard Williams, Horace L. Traubel, Harrison S. Morris, Talcott Williams, John H.

Mitchell, William Reeder, Daniel Gongaker, Geoffrey Buckwalter, William Ingram, Carl Edelheim, G.W.

Williams ( F.

Williams .— Mr.

—Talcott WilliamsWilliams! Whitman .— Get up, Talcott—show yourself!

Walt Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
Text:

NIMMO KING WILLIAM STRAND 14 STREET, MDCCCXCI1I 3331 S>2 AUG 2 i. 921411 PREFACE This hardly needs an

figure,six feet high, costumed in or blue grey, with drab hat, broad shirt collar, fulland with grey-white

And here I may recall President Lincoln's remark on seeing Whitman of House :" from the windows the White

William O'Connor, of Douglas Washington, who had learned to appreciate Walt as a friend, and to admire

A Day with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1895
  • Creator(s): Theodore F. Wolfe
Text:

and delicate, a complexion of florid and trans-parent pink,—its hue being heightened by the snowy whiteness

The floor is partly uncarpeted, and the furniture is of the simplest; his bed, covered by a white counterpane

Conversations with Walt Whitman: My First Visit

  • Date: 1895
  • Creator(s): Sadakichi Hartmann
Text:

against draughts, he had wrapped a shawl of an Oriental pattern around his shoulders, and with his white

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

.^ BY WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY " WholoveaMan seehis here." may imagJ.R.LOWELL.

William Wesselhoeft. The result of of two months' generous work by Mr.

Channing gives himself almost entirely up to William's care and treatment.

William's blood boiled at the covert malignancy dis- in his Bazar played by [T.W.]

Don't know of [my grandmother Amy] Williams having any blood never heard ab't that.

Walt Whitman: The Man

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): Thomas Donaldson
Text:

Widener, 10.00 William M. Singerly, 10.00 W. L.Elkins, 10.00 J.M.

WILLIAM C.BONAPARTE WYSE. MANOR OF STJOHN S,ATERFORD,Auguet11,879.

Stoddart, Francis Howard Williams, Dr. R. M. Bucke, Talcott Williams, T. B.

Brinton, Francis Howard Williams, Thomas B. Earned, and Dr. R.

Williams then read from the Zend-Avesta and Plato.

Some Personal Recollections and Impressions of Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1898
  • Creator(s): Thomas Proctor
Text:

cut according to his own fancy shockingly contrary to the very stiff and prim usage of the time, his white

as we faced the opposite bank of the stream, for a long distance it was broadly bordered in creamy white

Chats with Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1898
  • Creator(s): Grace Gilchrist
Text:

His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.

He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar

, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.

twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white

year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White

Walt Whitman

  • Date: August 1900
  • Creator(s): Leon Mead
Text:

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1902
  • Creator(s): John Townsend Trowbridge
Text:

One of the most prized of these was William Douglas O'Connor.

William Rossetti, who edited a volume of selections from Leaves of Grass for the British public, pointed

Had William Shakespeare left any authentic writings as empty of thought and imagination, and void of

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The grown impression he early made upon such men as Emerson, Thoreau, William O Connor, Mr.

"Fihim better than last With pretty well, looking year. 54 WHITMAN his light-gray suit, and white

W. drives briskly, and salutes every person we meet, little and black and male and female. big, white

The upper over The eyelids droop considerably the eyeballs. which are hidden by the thick, white lips

XXVII William Rossetti his has a certain says language ultimate quality.

Days with Walt Whitman: A Visit to Walt Whitman In 1877

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg—at first sight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse", or Kirkwood, was the third of fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

Philadelphia on those warm evenings) sitting out on the doorsteps—Whitman in the midst, in an armchair, his white

Days with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THESAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 189I BY HENRY WILLIAMS

Edinburgh PREFACE \ AY firstacquaintance with Whitman's writings (William Rossetti's edition of the Poems

,always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg— at firstsight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse," or Kirkwood, was the third or fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

mea- sured yet irregular roll of Whitman's lines to the onset of waves along a shore — now creeping white

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1907
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Calder
Text:

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

Walt Whitman: The Last Phase

  • Date: June 1909
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Leavitt Keller
Text:

The only things that stood out vividly were the white pillow, and the placid face encircled with snowy

This, with its white wolfskin, surmounted the pile like a throne.

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1909
  • Creator(s): William Hawley Smith
Text:

William Hawley Smith Our transcription is based on a photocopy of an original issue.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: Visit to Brooklyn

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

several of the other pilots mentioned there—John Cole, pilot of the Union, who was a pilot still; George White

, Luther Smith, and Bill White, who died suddenly and alone at his post, in the very chair in which I

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: First Visit to Camden, September 8th and 9th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. W. Wallace
Text:

His great head seen almost in profile, with its lofty and rounded dome, his long white hair and beard

O'Connor—the widow of Whitman's brilliant friends William O'Connor—had also been spending a few days

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden, October 15th to 24th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston | J. W. Wallace
Text:

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist, in this way.

One day William O'Connor and I were coming along and we met Gurowski.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and beard, and he coughs 'ugh! ugh!

After leaving her I met Horace by appointment and we called on Talcott Williams at the Press office.

Frank Williams and we four." W. "And what did you do?" I said we had had dinner and talked, etc. W.

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. Jonston, M.D. | J. W. Wallace
Text:

The full are lips partly hidden by the thick,white moustache.

He wrote a Life of William Blake, the artist,in thisway.

Richelieu is very old, bent, with white hair and and he ' ! !

Talcott Press Williams, Newspaper Office,Philadelphia.

Alma, 136 O'Connor, William D., 45, 77, 100, ; Mrs.

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1919
  • Creator(s): William Roscoe Thayer
Text:

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WALT WHITMAN By William Roscoe Thayer

impressed you most was his face, with its fresh, pink skin, as of a child, and the flowing beard, white

His hair and beard are long and very white.

I shall long remember him with his white fleece, pink complexion, and friendliness.

So Walt's loafing around the White House was not wholly unremunerated.

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William D.

William M.

Translation by William E.

Emperor William I, 186. George William, 16.

William D., 98.

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

In his History of American Literature, William P.

dressed in white and olive-skinned girls with beautiful white teeth and flowers in their hair.

You don’t mess with William Kennedy!

Kennedy, William S. Fight of a Book for the World.

Kennedy, William S. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman. London: Alexander Gardner, 1896.

Diary of Edmund Gosse: Sat. Jan. 3

  • Date: 1966
  • Creator(s): Edmund Gosse
Text:

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

William White. NUPM Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier.

William M.

White, William M. "The Dynamics of Whitman's Poetry." The Sewanee Review, 80 (1972):347-60.

William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols. - - .

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White.

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

A friend of mine, William D.

William E.]

William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919).

William F.Channing (1820-r9or), the brother-in-law of Ellen O'Connor and son of William Ellery Channing

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:424. 48.

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