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I explained that it was the opinion of Morris and Frank Williams that W. should not embrace the tender—that

I met William Swinton at McKay's, having a long talk with him about W.

It is not finally known, even by William's friends, that he was gifted wtih the deepest vein of mimicry

Referred to William O. Stoddard.

William Cauldwell, who worked as a printer on the Aurora in the early 1840s and who knew Whitman well

This book is to be finished in about twenty numbers, Illustrated London was written by William I.

William Rossetti is comin to see me Thursday, before starting for his holiday trip to Naples.

William Black is good, usually, in the respect, though apt to overdo.

Channing William F. Channing to Walt Whitman, 19 March 1873

depend upon it William Blake's maxim is a sound one, "First thoughts in Art, second in other matters.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Kathryn Kruger William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 9 January

His friends William O'Connor and J.

William A.PannapackerLowell, James Russell (1819–1891)Lowell, James Russell (1819–1891) Poet, editor,

novelists, musicians, and poets is staggering: Honoré de Balzac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, William

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 5 May 1876

—Middling well—very hot weather here— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 26 June

(William Sloane Kennedy, for example, wrote that Whitman would "probably have desired to have him privately

William Henry Seward (1801-1872) was a U.S. politician and an antislavery activist.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

He brought a letter of introduction from Talcott Williams.

"William has his own troubles." I wrote to Burroughs for W. yesterday.

The paragraph to which he alluded was as follows: William Douglas O'Connor, the author of the "Good Gray

Macaulay" W. said: "O'Connor was very violently set against Macaulay because of his vilification, as William

There is no change in William: he remains just as he was."

"I sit here doing things, reading, seeing the sky, dawdling along, always with my mind fixed on William

As to Frank's piece—Frank Williams'—I'm afraid that too failed to im- press me.

For myself I can safely say that except William Rolleston no reader or student of your poetry has studied

I copy the letter from William Michael Rossetti given me by W. day before yesterday.London, 1 JanyJanuary

I thought of just a few of the fellows—William, John, Dowden, Symonds, others: thought of them—the thought

who is perfectly at home in its literature, stands by the French—insists upon French supremacy: and William

supporters, seems to me the most scholarly—the best possessed in literary treasures—the love of books: and William

O'Connor told us that William Henry Channing had said to her, or to William, that he was rejoiced to

McAlister came and went upstairs, reporting him then a trifle worse.Talcott Williams came in, and reporters

All his unopened.)Sent telegrams to Brinton, Morris and Frank Williams: "Has rallied some," and to Bolton

Morning papers full of marriage of Princess Louise—Victoria, Emperor William present.

Traubel, May 28, 1891.Samuel Murray, Thomas Eakins, William O'Donovan, and Harry the Dog [with O'Donovan's

And again, "William would have seen it himself—yes, would have gone straight to the heart of it."

The odd movements of the Emperor William, Germany, excited W.'s interest. "He seems an odd critter.

Have you had any news from William?" W.'s color not so bad, but he looked tired.I did not stay.

read it to myself: you are in a hurry: take it along—read it by the way: notice particularly what William

"William claimed that he had a heap to do with that," I said.

Frank Williams not yet about—nor further word from Brinton. To W.'

The foreman was a William Cobbett sort of a fellow.

Williams, Edelheim, Josephine Lazarus, Adler, Baker, Poet-Lore.Cable from Wallace today: "Thanks for

I referred to William O'Connor: "If we had him today, he would rush in the thick of this fight!"

I could never do that quite—at least, never did it, in William's way—though my philosophy—if I have that—would

But William had a sort of natural chivalry and acceptivity, and never gave a scholar to neglect."

small size, opened in 1835. down in the square—on account of the real genius of the acting in it of William

William Sefton and John Sefton were brothers.

William was the first stage manager of the Franklin Theatre.

explains all I wish explained: is personal, confessional: a variegated product, in fact—streaks of white

He is surely a wonderful man—a rare, cleaned-up man—a white-souled, heroic character.

His color very odd and bad—a mixture of blue and white, without any trace of pink—the blue especially

the check draughts of your hurrying life now & then.I sit here facing the river & look out on the white

enough with Southern people to feel convinced that if I lived South I should side with the Southern whites

coffee plants with their little flowers are seen on the plain, while the Rhododendron and the wild white

Just beyond, glimpses of it appearing through the trees, shows the dirty white of the City Hall; Justice

His long, snow-white hair flows down and mingles with his fleecy beard, giving him a venerable expression

connected with the early settlers, and with the several tribes of Indians who lived in it before the whites

After a time, some of the white-aproned subordinates of the place came to him, roughly broke his slumbers

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

ambiguous meaning, used in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. to refer to descendants of both white

Bucke was a passenger on the SS Britannic, an ocean liner belonging to the White Star Line, traveling

Frank Williams in to see me today.

"No—it is not very rare—but it is beautiful, a pure white—white as alum.

What case under heaven but in the hands of a cute lawyer may not evidence white black and black white

And now that William is no more—now that William is gone—gone forever, from physical sight—the great,

surpassing William!

My mail today had also brought me letters from Rhys, Rolleston, Rossetti and William Morris.

"No—not William—but about all the rest.

As to Sir William Don: "He was not a man of the highest talent, but in the range of his art (to use a

Sir William Don, later on, was a character, too.

Frank Williams over to see me about J.C.T., Jr. footnote.

Commenting on Frank Williams' "Literary Dynamics," he said, "Frank is a good fellow—and faithful.

Kennedy's letter | Feb. 5 '86 William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 February 1886