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Search : William White

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Of all the western stars

  • Date: After December 1885; December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Unknown
Text:

White, Ex-President of Cornell University wrote: "I have long believed that such schools are among the

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

  • Date: 1890 or later; 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.F. Volney
Text:

Next to these, that second more numerous group, with white banners intersected with crosses, are the

Whitman's pre-Leaves of Grass Marginalia on British Writers

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:754.

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

White 1825 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 23-25, 37, 41, 45, 47-48, 76-77 loc.03449 Thompson, Benjamin F.

Whitman appends this clipping on William Cowper's poetry to a commentary on British poets.

Campbell, William W.

Bohn Cowper, William The poetical works of William Cowper, with a biographical notice by H.F.

Shaw Consuelo William H.

Introduction to Whitman's Annotations and Marginalia

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

Coors Endowed Chair, US Air Force Academy William H.

Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory."

Sherman, William. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England.

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

rebel against their owners, setting fire to a building near Broadway, and threatening to kill any whites

Three beads of black and six of white were equivalent, among the English, to a penny, and among the Dutch

Here the aboriginal money circulated,—small polished shells, some white, some black, strung on the sinews

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Walter, William T. "Long Island." In , edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, 3–14.

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe

  • Date: August 1849 or later; August 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

That kingdom, the creation of the successive Fredericks and Frederick-Williams of the House of Hohen-Zollern

Edmund Spenser: born about 1553—died 1599.

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

unworldly, abstracted, contemplative in the highest degree—loving high themes— princeliness, purity, white

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
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resided in Stratford in 1612—and before & afterward His sister Joan, (5 years younger than he) married William

Hart, hatter,—they called their first child "William."

John Ward's Diary. made a final effort with firmness on the final si g nature "By me William Shakespeare

Oct. 25, 1856 a paper read by William Henry Smith, author of "Was Lord Bacon the author of Shakespeare's

These notes drew from Collier's Works of William Shakespeare, first published in 1844.

Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe

  • Date: After December 1, 1846; December 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

high: Gently she clasped it to her snowy breast, While I, in rapture lost, stood musing by: Then her white

One Thousand Historical Events

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dismal, 1035 85 Battle of Hastings—William I. conquered.

Odious judge, 1066 86 France ravaged by William the Conqueror.

*Ishmael, NUMERICAL KEY. 37 37 Rhode Island settled by Roger Williams.

Dutch copy, 1679 82 William Penn settled Pennsylvania.

White chasm, 1703 11 The first newspaper printed in North America.

Europe bounded

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Germany, Bavaria, —Wurtemberg, Baden, —Saxony, 2,000,000 (Greece 22 1,10 0,000 Parma Sicily Seas White

Poem

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

titled "Song of Myself," first published as the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The white-topped

The Vanity and the Glory of Literature

  • Date: After April 1, 1849; April 1849; Date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Rogers
Text:

She was represented veiled in white, holding a sceptre in her left hand, and with her right raised, as

He is a precursor

  • Date: 1847 or later; May 1847; date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Hogarth | Anonymous
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speak of them than if we had read more, as hands that are but a little soiled are fitter to lay on white

"Once," says Swedenborg, "Mary, the mother of God, passed by, and appeared clothed in white raiment."

Africa (The Equator

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

miles the Congo, (1000 miles or more, emptying into the Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white

black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River , away down in Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile

Scythia (as Used by the Greeks)

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

Kashmir , or a country farther east, is not easily determined—but it seems that, accordingly, the white

Henry 8th

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
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Louis 13th 1643 Louis 14th—(aged—(6 years) 1715 Louis 15th England 1685—James 2d 1689—" Revolution" —William

& Mary 1694 William W J ames 2d died at St.

and Mary, the attempt of James in Ireland and of his adherents in Scotland—William soon eventually puts

'91 '92 and '93 '9 and '94— from '90 to ' 96 98— —the death of the queen—the active movements of William

in Literature) —death of William, (March 8, 1702—accession of Queen Anne—the Earl of Marlborough— the

The Indians in American Art

  • Date: After January 1, 1856; January 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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else in the other extreme, hung about with skulls, scalps, and the half-devoured fragments of the white

the costumed European less; for it cannot be hidden that it is the seductive blandishments of the white

West knew the Indians when comparatively untainted by the white man's vices.

seated on one side of the house, and the English on the other, who, after lecturing them upon the white

The mountain‑ash

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

The mountain‑ash, a large shrub, 16 or 2 0 ft high—northern part of the state of New York —has white

blossoms—blooms early in the spring—has then a pleasant perfume—the hill‑sides where it grows thickly look white

How would it do

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

city—ma femme—O never forgotten by me Maine Fish— Codfish mackarel mackerel herring salmon lumber) white

one third of all the U.S. ship building Lumbering— Merrimac state New Hampshire "granite state" the white

Carolina, extending into Virginia—10x30 miles full of pine, juniper & cypress trees, with white & red

Pedee —the Santee the Edisto —the Palmetto—40 feet high (the "Cabbage Palm) —the laurel, with large white

sand-hills of the middle-Country, like agitated waves—the pleasant table-lands beyond Arkansas Rivers—the White

More about William Blake

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

More about William Blake—I met R.W.

More about William Blake

Notes on Whitman's Photographers

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

William Kurtz : 1834–1904, born and raised in Germany.

William S. Pendleton : New York and Brooklyn photographer.

Phillips (1843–1911) and William Curtis Taylor (1825–1905) ever were partners.

Sophia Williams : 1850–1928.

Williams was a writer and the wife of the editor of the Philadelphia Press , Talcott Williams, whom Whitman

"This heart's geography's map"

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

Other friends thought of taking up the project —William Douglas O'Connor, just before his death, had

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

One Williams College copy has a blank copyright page; two other copies, now at the University of Virginia

White notes by way of context that "the scrapbook was used by Whitman to keep clippings from newspapers

In research for a short article describing the discovery, William White determined that the document

White also identified the "Mr.

White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First American Literature 28.4 (1957): 516–17.

Reviews and Advertisements Insertion into the 1855 Leaves of Grass

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

shirt collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

He does not separate the learned from the unlearned, the northerner from the southerner, the white from

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White endpapers.

I see his white body . . . .

white- blow white-blow and delirious juice, Bridegroom-night of love working surely and softly into the

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

White endpapers.

Annotations Text:

White endpapers.

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

  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

"Swayne" was William Whiting Swayne of Ireland (ca. 1825–1883), a bookseller and, later, a publisher

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Based on the binder's records, William White argues that the total edition consisted of 795 copies, an

Williams & Co. to Mr. B. E. Perry.

Blodgett, Harold, Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, and William White, eds.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

White, William, ed. . 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Whitman, Walt.

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
Text:

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.

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Jerome M. Loving
Text:

On December 2, 1866, William O'Connor—another of Whitman's close friends—had written a long review in

two officers in the Fifty-First Regiment (who had not been captured at Poplar Grove), Lieutenant William

of Congress)—essentially paraphrased a letter (date unknown) addressed to Babcock from Lieutenant William

Walt Whitman wrote to William O'Connor and his wife on March 26 that George was in what I would almost

And when the initials G.W.W. stood on a pipe in white paint, the inhabitants of Boston and New York were

Walt Whitman to William J. Linton [August 1875]

  • Date: [August 1875]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am almost always easier as day departs Whitman wrote this draft in response to the letter by William

Walt Whitman to William J. Linton [August 1875]

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 3–14 September 1874

  • Date: September 3–14, 1874
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

to California cast ashore on one of the Navigator Islands where he remained for six months the only white

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 4–6 July 1874

  • Date: July 4–6, 1874
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti and his wife are coming to dine with us Wednesday—they look so well & happy it does

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16–30 November 1875

  • Date: November 16–30, 1875
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti has a little girl which is a great delight to him.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11–12 May 1889

  • Date: May 11–12, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11–12 May 1889

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

  • Date: September 7–8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"circles" here— W W Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7–8 September 1889

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [On or After 12 July 1889]

  • Date: [On or After July 12, 1889]
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

WS Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [On or After 12 July 1889]

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 15–16 August 1890

  • Date: August 15–16, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 15–16 August 1890

William L. DeLacey to Walt Whitman, [1891?]

  • Date: [1891?]
  • Creator(s): William L. DeLacey
Text:

Yours, Very Respectfuly, WILLIAM L. DeLACEY, Poughkeepsie, New York. William L.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7–10 August [1870]

  • Date: August 7–10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

blue sky—a grand sight—& the beautiful yachts & pleasure boats, lots & lots of them, with immense white

Annotations Text:

Daily Morning Chronicle of August 7, 1870, noted an accident on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at White

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 21–28 February 1891

  • Date: February 21–28 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Sol has struggled to pierce—with a touch of frost at nights covering every thing with its beautiful white

a big old ship's cabin" with its literary chaos —really kosmos to you—its stove its "bed with snow white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, January 1891

  • Date: January 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Ingersoll, Sloane Kennedy, David McKay, Talcott Williams Bernard O'Dowd, Melbourne R Pearsall Smith London

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6–7 January 1891

  • Date: January 6–7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Frost had ornamented our windows with his inimitably beautiful pr & hung our hedges & trees with his white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 20–21 March 1891

  • Date: March 20–21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Morning magnificent—Easterly wind, bright sunshine, & blue sky with white clouds.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 2–3 August 1891

  • Date: August 2–3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

sea The corn now 3 feet high is in full ear the fields are all bordered with wildflowers—yellow & white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6–7 August 1891

  • Date: August 6–7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

old mother endlessly crying for her castaways" ["]sways to & fro singing her husky song" the "milk white

Annotations Text:

Johnston quotes the phrase "milk-white combs careering" from Whitman's poem "Patroling Barnegat," which

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 5–6 January 1889

  • Date: January 5–6, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

well—glum weather, however—I am sitting here by the oak fire comfortable— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 20–21 January 1891

  • Date: January 20–21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 20–21 January 1891

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