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Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 17 March 1876

  • Date: March 17, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 17 March 1876

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1883

  • Date: April 17, 1883
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor | Horace Traubel
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O'Connor William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 April 1883

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1880

  • Date: March 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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William Rossetti spent good Friday afternoon with us; was very pleased with Herby's work.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor (for Moncure D. Conway), [10 November 1867]

  • Date: November 10, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor (for Moncure D.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 30 May [1882]

  • Date: May 30, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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his verdict of 1856, then there is no significance in human life or its emotions or Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2 December 1866
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, William Douglas
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She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house; The sun just shines on her old white

again, this soil'd world. … For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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What, and who was that white figure there? "Forbear! In Jehovah's name forbear!"

Leaning far out of an upper window, appeared a white-draperied shape, its face possessed of a wonderful

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching; Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1891)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person, The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve, They shall be stript

Cluster: Enfans D'adam. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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beauty of person, The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve, They shall be stript

Cluster: Children of Adam. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person, The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve, They shall be stript

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 22 August 1880

  • Date: August 22, 1880
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 18 March 1876
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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from the article appeared in the London Athenaeum (11 March 1876), followed by Robert Buchanan's and William

Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901) was a British poet, novelist and dramatist.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Johnston, William Douglas O'Connor, and Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel.; This catalog includes item-level

He first read Whitman's poetry in William M.

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

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

Tuesday, October 2nd, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The Introduction is written by William O'Connor.

proposition, to which I mailed an immediate answer, to the same effect as herewith.Accept my thanks for the William

Saturday, October 6th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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You would not guess such a thing from William's appearance.

If you do go, you must see William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless Dante Rossetti

Thursday, October 11th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William's letter was indeed brief.Life Saving Service,Washington, D.

William was in a trifling measure afflicted in the same way.

Thursday, October 25, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Horace, there is a cloud hanging over William—over us all: a fatal black cloud.

I am not in the habit of anticipating disaster, but I can't help seeing that William's persistent trouble

Monday, August 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William is always wideawake—always plants both of his two eyes on life.

Bucke's letters often go off into words—off into the air—but William is always true to the scent of himself

Sunday, May 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The easiest thing to do with a man like William O'Connor when he gets a-going about Bacon is to do nothing—to

"Not at all—I should not be prepared to go as far as that: I only say they were not written by William

Thursday, September 17, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Ask William O'Connor—or you have asked him. Ask William's letters—ask John Burroughs.

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 2]

  • Date: 14 March 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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the reference to the “Youth’s guide to Polite Manners” could be related to the 1833 publication of William

Many advice manuals quoted William Scott’s definition of good-breeding from his 1817 publication of Lessons

Nature

  • Creator(s): Doudna, Martin K.
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For him as for William Cullen Bryant in the opening lines of "Thanatopsis," nature as naturans speaks

deceptive.Whitman's poetic use of natural objects differs from that of his contemporaries such as William

Wednesday, January 30, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Furness (William Henry) spoke at Unity Church Sunday.

s own skepticism had "preceded Donnelly's book"—even preceded his O'Connor experiences—"though William

W. said: "William speaks of Winter as Littlebillwinter—all one word: I often think of Ben Jonson as Littlebenjonson—all

Tuesday, June 12, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Alluding to the Emperor Frederick William, W. said: "He is said to be in a still lower condition.

I know you think William made rather too much of Emerson's endorsement: I guess I do too: but William

Tuesday, November 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He called it, "every way quite characteristic of William: sharp, keen, decisive—full of fine fence and

fellow, of some use, after all: that Cæsar was not thus and so, but thus and so: that there was no William

Tell—that the William Tell story was wholly a myth: that Columbus did not do this or that on the voyage

Arrow-Tip

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for

I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both

"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a

We will laugh in the very faces of the whites!" A RROW -T IP smiled, quietly.

Tell them of the customs of these white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys

Selected Letters of Whitman

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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William D.

The man wears a broad-brim white hat.

Harlan would consider Walt Whitman white as purity beside him.

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

After the dilettanteindelicacies of William H.

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Early Draft Advertisements

  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
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"Swayne" was William Whiting Swayne of Ireland (ca. 1825–1883), a bookseller and, later, a publisher

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): Alger, William Rounseville
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The attribution of this review to William Rounseville Alger is indebted to Gary Scharnhorst's article

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

Sunday, July 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The volume was the result of some correspondence between William and Mrs. Pott.

Tuesday, April 30, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And when I asked: "Has he ever—or anyone—in any way indicated William Morris' feelings toward you?"

Monday, May 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. expressed pleasure with the idea that Frank Williams would be present and possibly speak.

Monday, June 3 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The pictures are in the hands of William Carey—and are subject to copyright: I suppose we would have

Saturday, October 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I remarked: "This week I have read in Harper's Weekly an article on Jefferson by William Winter."

Saturday, July 13, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I left with him proofs of Grey's, Harned's, Gilchrist's, Williams' and Clifford's speeches.

Saturday, January 30, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams and Miss Willis had been sending W. the special foods.

Friday, October 31, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I say they for I look upon the piece as composite—made up—for Morris, Frank Williams, perhaps several

Saturday, May 24, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Thought "William Cary and Robert Underwood Johnson, of the Century, might be invited to the dinner if

Tuesday, June 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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from a moment's observation, but of a close friend, a long intimate, to whom Leaves of Grass, as William

Tuesday, September 22, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I guess it's not the best translation—but a precious book, having been so long William's!"

About "Bervance: Or, Father and Son"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

The editors published works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, and Henry

Tomorrow

  • Date: 11 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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referring to John Tyler, who became the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845) when President William

The monthly Magazines

  • Date: 28 July 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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The volume also included poems by Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871), William Howe Cuyler Hosmer (1814

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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I did not see William Rossetti before I came down but heard that he had had a very happy time in Italy

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1882

  • Date: June 3, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
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William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1882

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