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Search : William White

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Tuesday, March 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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news from O'Connor—though indirect news: nothing straight from Washington but a letter here from William's

Doctor says, there are some things that are not to be desired: we may do him wrong to desire to have William's

"I saw at once how baseless Frank Williams' suspicions of Walsh were when I looked through the matter

If I believe that way, then I should say so, Williams or no Williams: if I do not believe that way, then

Wednesday, March 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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.: "William puts it all down to overwork in the department." But W. protested.

what can never be again: I face the dreadful fact that the fire in this wonderful man—our darling William—is

Thursday, March 28, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"There's William, too, Horace: there's better news of him today: better"—pointing to the round table:

—not entering at all into William's literary, but sticking closely to his human, significance.Spoke of

Saturday, March 30, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William had the best night last night since a week ago and has sat up all day. Your card just here.

Le Barnes in, and looking at your big book, for which we thank you, both William and I, each, for our

William sends love.

Then he suddenly exclaimed: "Wouldn't it be grand to think of William as getting all over this—getting

["Yes, William!"

Sunday, March 31, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I referred to Frank Williams, whom I passed in Germantown today.

And as to Bucke's statement that Williams "amounted to little in the literary sense," W. asked: "What

I laughed and said: "Perhaps Williams wouldn't thank you to have you say that: most men would rather

better with that than I ever did: his English itself is somewhat upside down—sort of cut bias, as William

Monday, April 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He said again: "You and William could have had great times over all that: he is alive, wide awake, to

felt like the devil all day: I have therefore done nothing—not even written my customary postals to William

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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another side: it is the other side which the partisan always leaves out of his account: I remember William

He said: "William was a whirlwind when he had his health: what has he come to now? alas!

White a going over, of which I wrote you some time ago.

Wednesday, April 3, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I'm hungry for news from William," he said: "nothing has come."

One of the best illustrations I know of is William's own case—his department: Kimball, the head there

W. complained of the "almost remissness" of Nelly in not "writing us oftener about William."

Thursday, April 4, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Jefferies is editing the vol. to follow yours in the series—White's Selborne.

Friday, April 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then he said: "Read William's letters: they're more refreshing." Washington, D.C., April 14, 1888.

I hope you have not been writing anything in praise of that old dead werewolf, Emperor William.

He then said: "There's William's other letter: do you intend to read that?" I did.Washington, D.

Saturday, April 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the main, but with a black thread running through it all: it seems that after many hideous nights William

He came back with a big white envelope containing the usual monthly announcement of the Contemporary

Thursday, November 29, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. spoke of O'Connor: "William is all gentleman: however strong, however impetuous, however overwhelming

There I left them at least the 25th.Very respectfully,William Cook Capt. 19th U.S.C.T.92 W. 10thNew York

Saturday, December 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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always talk like this: that I love O'Connor for doing exactly the opposite thing: so I do: I like William

I said: "You speak of William and Dowden: I don't think that the difference between them is the difference

Bucke says William goes on and Dowden stands still.

William goes on, sure enough: but if Dowden stands still how is it he ever came to recognize you?"

I for my part am rather more disposed to William's than to John's estimate, characterization, of Hugo

Sunday, December 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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that is so: I believe this girl went to Mary Morris—William Morris's daughter—who has a genius, they

Monday, December 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Morse, Kennedy, John, William—all silent!"

It did once stand in front of the President's house—the White House: now I hear it has been removed.

Tuesday, December 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I took Alexander Gardner's sheet—the title page: it had quite a good deal of white paper: wrote a long

William was very furious about it: it was bandied about Washington—got into the papers: William asked

That was William: I suppose he was right: I needed only to make a simple public statement: I would be

I submit here the document prepared for William by W. and passed into my hands since by Nellie O'Connor

Dear William O'Connor:As you were interested in Mr.

Wednesday, December 5, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Walsh—(brother of William, of Lippincott's). Doctors examined W.'

Monday, December 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Indeed, The Tribune's is the animating spirit of all that class in New York: Stoddard, William Winter—these

Tuesday, December 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Also Talcott Williams. Much talk of W. Gilchrist took part in the discussion.

Wednesday, December 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Talcott Williams over. Did not see W. Gilchrist came later: was in bedroom a few minutes.

But then, where is there anybody like William?

William made short work of the hair splitters.

Chadwick got on the wrong field when he called William a liar and crossed blades with him: William gave

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

Thursday, December 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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A little the odor of wood: the light flickering upon the wall, the bed white and clean.

Friday, December 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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happen to be thought worth while to have the history of Leaves of Grass written the correspondence of William

the other side of the Atlantic: we were all intensely excited when these propositions were made: William

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Tebb (Surrey, England). They were greatly disappointed W. not being able to see them.

Sunday, December 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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eight"—pausing, repeating some names: "One for Addington Symonds: one for Buxton Forman: one for William

Monday, December 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yes—surely: for the purposes of that edition that was the best thing to do: yet we lost heaps in losing William

There was another regret from which I have always suffered: I always wished William to figure in some

He held a smallish white unstamped envelope up before me. "This: look at it."

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It looks to me as if William was in for some extreme decision before long—I don't think he can last this

Then: "I am depending upon you to in the main keep our folks informed how I am—John, William, Kennedy

Wednesday, December 19, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Well—I won't say that—though William's letters are always important: but there 'sthere's something in

O'C.W. said: "That 'sThat's one of William's most interesting epistles: oh! those days!

I said: "William From a Photograph by Rockwood & Co.

William talks about Grant turning back. When did he ever turn back?

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

Thursday, December 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As to cover he said again: "Of all things, I should least think of vellum—white vellum especially."

Friday, December 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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When I was through he said: "William says there: 'It will go hard if I cannot make such a cloud belch

He made it belch many thunders: William had unlimited capacity for raising hell: I don't mean that he

John Hay was a great admirer of William—way back there: he said about the same thing Stedman did—said

I think Stedman was a bit afraid of William—was timid—just a bit, befor his vehemence: just as Gilder

always has been: William gets on Watson's nerves—William is so virile, Watson so feminine (I don't mean

Monday, December 24, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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someone writing there (I think it was The Times: it certainly was an English paper): he spoke of William

Thursday, December 27, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. exclaimed: "Good: You ought to say that to William: that 'sthat's one of his pet ideas (and mine too

Saturday, December 29, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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how that sounds like William O'Connor!

If only William O'Connor could hear you talk so!"

Williams, Philadelphia. M. B. W.'s letter with portrait, &c. on the table.

Sunday, December 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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This is the best translation: there is no other approaching it: it is by George William Curtis' wife's

criticisms of value, should such appear.I have not yet seen the February Fortnightly, nor the book William

Monday, December 31, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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This was his "great concern for William."

But I know what William means: he used to say to me sometimes—'Walt, when it comes to some things you've

But I confess William would go way ahead of me in that direction—was gifted beyond us all: was sensitive

I remember an Othello criticism: undoubtedly written by William Winter: Winter is the dramatic editor

Thursday, January 3, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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After the white woman the negro. "But not universally the negro.

William was always a world of help in these treaties with editors: he was an intercessory force: knew

Some invited, most did n'tdidn't: but whether the one thing or the other, William mediated with his customary

Friday, January 4, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I did not ask him.Frances Emily White speaks at the Club next Tuesday on the Evolution of Ethics.

Saturday, January 5, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"You know Talcott Williams' position on The Press?

Sunday, January 6, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams,Attorney General.IXDepartment of Justice,Washington, June 30, 1874.

Williams,Attorney General.I asked W.: "Are they all the documents in the matter?"

Tuesday, September 4th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams. You know Frank: it's his wife."

William is a man who never needs a prod—is always afire: in fence he is a ways ready—his weapons are

no notion whatever of the author, we should fare better in understanding the work than we do with William

Of all the dear, dear friends of those days, Nellie, William, were dearest, dearest."

Thursday, September 6th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Herbert and Talcott Williams seem to entertain quite a shine for each other.

I said of it "It has a William Morris lay-out." He replied: "Do you say so?

Friday, September 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He hasn't got William's guts: he lacks that first brutality of utterance which goes with the initiators

They proved to be one each from Conway, Hotten, William Michael Rossetti and Trowbridge.

Saturday, September 8th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The American white and the Southern black will mix but not ally.

Now, the Southern white does not encourage such intermixtures: there are psychological, physiological

They are a study, too—the poor whites South: lank, sallow coughing, spitting, with no bellies (and bellies

Swinburne's new book upon William Blake, poet and artist—a great but neglected genius who was counted

Sunday, September, 9th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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very funny: the fellow who writes the notice (a very good notice it is, too: among the best)—Clarke—William

Monday, September 10th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bartol, William P. Wesselhoeft, Mrs. Ole Bull, L. N. Fairchild, Albert B. Otis, A friend, W. D.

G. van Renssalaer (New York), Charles Eliot Norton, George Fred Williams, J. R. Chadwick, (Mr.)

Friday, September 14th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Ingram—"the dear old Quaker man," W. calls him—wrote this note to W.

We all send much love.From your friend,William Ingram.The bouquet was on the table before W., who remarked

Saturday, September 15th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The Record speaks of Talcott Williams as a free trader in disguise.

"Ingram, Tom—William Ingram: they came down from the country. Let's open one shall we?

Sunday, September 16, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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bleeding to death—(he is shot in the abdomen,) I staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white

Monday, September 17th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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great heat of debate, babble of voices, dissenting discordant opinions—mostly antagonizing Hugo—and William's

concluding symposium piece in The American: The Poetry of Walt Whitman: a Rejoinder, written by Frank Williams

Thursday, September 29th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Doctor is magnificent—I love him (do I love anybody better saving maybe only William?)

Friday, September 21st, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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might not be a good form of Title-page:"Walt Whitman's Poems Selected from the American Editions By William

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