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Search : William White

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Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 3–14 September 1874

  • Date: September 3–14, 1874
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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to California cast ashore on one of the Navigator Islands where he remained for six months the only white

The Truant Children Law

  • Date: 21 October 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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In a word, are white children, even if born in poverty, to be grabbed by a policeman for no offence?

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, [8]–9 June 1889

  • Date: June [8]–9, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Your hair cannot be much more white than it was in the long ago.

Whitman's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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empty, and the frame of which has lacked the picturesque, kindly face, with its background of flowing white

Walt Whitman: A Symposium in a Sick Room

  • Date: 18 November 1876
  • Creator(s): James Matlack Scovel
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cachet de pain —[the thin wafers hiding calomel]—is the fragrant red-rose and the tube-rose or the pure white

Freedom

  • Creator(s): Lindner, Carl Martin
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In Whitman's dream of America, all people are equal (men and women, poor and rich, black and white, professor

Respondez!

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

William M. Evarts to Richard H. Dana, Jr., 28 November 1868

  • Date: November 28, 1868
  • Creator(s): William M. Evarts | Walt Whitman
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changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen William

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 5 August 1871

  • Date: August 5, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Akerman to William W. Belknap, 5 August 1871

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 September 1871

  • Date: September 6, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Akerman to William W. Belknap, 6 September 1871

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 1 February 1889

  • Date: February 1, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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—& I will send you some impressions—I like it well— Best love to you Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7–8 September 1889

  • Date: September 7–8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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"circles" here— W W Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7–8 September 1889

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 27 August 1890

  • Date: August 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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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

  • Date: October 26, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
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William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 26 October 1882

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 17 November 1887

  • Date: November 17, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of going forth with horse & rig after dinner—God bless you and wife— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 20 February 1888

  • Date: February 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Talcott Williams gave me on Thursday evening two pictures of your house, inside & out, one shewing showing

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 24 July 1864

  • Date: July 24, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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William & Charlie had each had two letters from you, & I not a word, don't you know that I shall be jealous

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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rec'd a letter from you at Hobart which I sent on to Buck Bucke , with one from Eldridge, I read Williams

Joseph B. Marvin to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1887

  • Date: February 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Marvin
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William Brough, who lives in a costly residence on Farragut Square and is a very pleasant, educated man—evidently

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 25 August 1885

  • Date: August 25, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
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Rossetti William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 25 August 1885

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and John Burroughs, 11 February 1888

  • Date: February 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and John Burroughs, 11 February 1888

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1889

  • Date: May 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Edward Carpenter
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contribution to the record of your birthday—a draft for $19495 (£ 40) from Bessie & Isabella Ford, William

Rocky Mountains

  • Creator(s): Stifel, Timothy
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Martin, and William W. Reitzel, traveled to the Colorado Rockies in September of 1879.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26–[27] September 1890

  • Date: September 26–[27], 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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settled decided that Ing's address shall be in Phila :—just as well (I appreciate Horace's and Frank Williams

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 17 November 1863

  • Date: November 17, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Dear comrade, I send you my love, & to William & Nelly, & remember me to Major [Hapgood] — Walt Walt

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 4 December 1866

  • Date: December 4, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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William Swinton is here in Washington, temporarily. He is interested in speculating in gold.

Harper's Monthly

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
Text:

From comments by George Curtis on Drum-Taps to William Dean Howells's editorial on November Boughs, the

Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824–1903)

  • Creator(s): Schroeder, Steven
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London: William Heinemann, 1893. Pennell, Elizabeth Robins.

Gray, Fred (1834–1891)

  • Creator(s): Yannella, Donald
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family and visited them, but the connection apparently dissolved in the 1870s.Bibliography Howells, William

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 July 1883

  • Date: July 20, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

W W Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 July 1883

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 21 February 1883

  • Date: February 21, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

September, 1881, at Concord, told it—told better than ever can be put in words — Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 21 September 1867

  • Date: September 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My dear friend, I suppose you saw my letter to William O'Connor, a week since, with notice of my safe

Redpath, James [1833–1891]

  • Creator(s): LeMaster, J.R.
Text:

Although he remained a moderate, Whitman befriended such radical writers as Redpath and William Douglas

Adams, Henry Brooks (1838–1918)

  • Creator(s): Newstrom, Scott L.
Text:

Jordy, William H. "Henry Adams and Walt Whitman." South Atlantic Quarterly 40 (1941): 132–145.

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
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man should marry the black woman and the white woman the black man. . . .

of the Chicago Tribune, William Cullen Bryant of the New York Evening Post, and Edwin L.

Gilette,William. Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869–1879.

Hesseltine,William B.Ulysses S.Grant, Politician. NewYork: Frederick Ungar, 1957.

Interracialism: Black‑White Intermarriage in American History, Literature, and Law.

Walt Whitman.—Second Notice

  • Date: 29 March 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti John Camden Hotten.

William Michael Rossetti's edition of Poems by Walt Whitman (1868) included approximately half the poems

Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825) produced a famous expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work entitled

Authoritative Online Editions

  • Creator(s): Thomas H. Benton [William Pannapacker]
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Library of Latin Literature," "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: Multimedia Archive," "The William

Archive," and, of course, "The Walt Whitman Archive," about which I'll say more in a moment. " The William

Benton is the pen name of William Pannapacker, an associate professor of English at Hope College in Holland

Saturday, June 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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laughed and explained that the expression was "all right"—"a current saying"—adding: "I have heard William

I used to argue so with William—oh! many's the strong sweet talks we've had over it!

But William would not have it so—it was to him a living, breathing question—and indeed, looking at it

Friday, May 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William O'Connor was a storm-blast for Bacon.

I never saw anybody stand up against William when he really got going: he was like a flood: he was loaded

with knowledge—yes, with knowledge: and knowledge with William was never useless—he knew what to do

Saturday, May 9, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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be so utterly worn out as I am, after I, in some measure, recovered from the exhaustion of nursing William

Well, it is no matter, only that I did want, & do want very much to finish up all this work that William

And again, "William gone now two years! Who would believe it?"

Sunday, March 24, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"About William?"

I gave you a letter from William some days ago in which he spoke of Marvin.

["No: he will not last long: it is about a year now since that was written: William is, alas!

["He'll be a rich publisher some day, William, unless all the signs fail!"]

William used to say: 'Walt, you're entitled to it: nobody will do it for you: do it for yourself.'"

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

Cluster: Inscriptions. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 2010
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

loveflesh swellinganddeliciouslyaching,/Limitlesslimpidjetsoflovehotandenormous.... quiveringjellyoflove...white-blowanddeliriousjuice

seminal and ejaculatory image: page 84—“Limitless limpidjetsoflovehotandenormous,quiveringjellyoflove,white-blowanddelirious

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
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William Michael Rossetti, “Adah Isaacs Menken,” in American Poems, ed.

Fowler,William Chauncey. “Charles William Chauncey of New York.”

Howells,William Dean.

Edited by William White. New York: New York University Press, 1978. ———.

, 114– 15 O’Connor,William, 5 Mullen, Edward F.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 15 October 1866
  • Creator(s): Moncure D. Conway
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And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

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

blue-grey shirt, his iron-grey hair, his swart sun-burnt face and bare neck, he lay upon the brown-and-white

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
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Heyde to Walt Whitman, December 3, 1890 (Trent Collection, William R.

When William Stansberry, a former soldier, wrote Walt and recalled the days in Armory Square Hospital

leading with a rope a fine old cow—a young cow and calf were alongside—under the wagon was a large white

Both Walt and his friend William Douglas O'Connor encouraged Jeff's pursuit of knowledge by sending him

White & Co., 1878-), XXV, 51.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 3)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yours respectfully,William H.

apper, indisputably for white."

He answered: "To William: I wanted William to see it: he has followed things so closely.

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

Then exclaimed: "O William! William! If only our former days and nights could be renewed!

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

William R.

Note: William W. Thayer and Charles W.

Is it white or yellow or black or all three or none of them?

Douglas O’Connor How much I owe 6:135 There is hilarity 1:162 William will die 2:176 William says 3:

352 William is in 2:11 I wonder 3:55 William is one 3:562 William would talk 4:70 he had an ideal 5:166

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