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Search : William White

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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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1889

  • Date: March 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

great arm-chair—as during my visits a year ago,—a never failing friendly presence behind the black-&-white

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus"

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

sea-waves hurry in and out, not the air, delicious and dry, the airof the ripe summer, bears lightlyalong white

heat flames up and consumes,” “the sea-waves hurry in and out,” “the air of the ripe sum- mer” drops “white

by the concluding passage in which he associates thepoeticallymovinganderoticallysuggestiveimageof “white

october 31, 1863 [Saturday] and novem- ber 1, 1863 [Sunday], in which he describes a visit to the White

[new york: new york University Press, 1984], 539). althoughWhitman may not have “slept over at the White

The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Erkkila, Betsy
Text:

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

MWJ Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, ed.

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

William L. Andrews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 129. 10.

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Bibliography 255 ———.

Whitman futur, ou l'avenir à venir: "Poets to Come" in French Translation

  • Creator(s): Éric Athenot | Blake Bronson-Bartlett
Text:

.: "one does not wear white shoes after labor day") in English.

Suggestions and Advice to Mothers

  • Date: 11 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Elmina
Text:

And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1878

  • Date: January 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1877

  • Date: November 9, 1877
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232).

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 July 1880

  • Date: July 17, 1880
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1889

  • Date: January 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1889 | Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

All your good words & wishes are appreciated , but I am too tired to use a pen much, & William is ill

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 May 1890

  • Date: May 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Dear Walt, I am going to ask you to do something for me,—or shall I say something for William, —it will

collect & publish with the new one that has not yet been printed, "The Brazen Android," — As soon as William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 May 1889

  • Date: May 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William passed peacefully to rest at 2 A. M. this day.

Last Sunday was the anniversary of our darling Jeannie's passing on, & I almost thought William would

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 September 1889

  • Date: September 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

& help to me, as she can advise me better than any one, what to do, & help me about disposing of William's

Do you think there is any good picture of William? one that you really like?

(over) I have a picture of William taken long ago that I like very much but would it be as satisfactory

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1889

  • Date: August 1, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I am with a Washington lady friend, who was very fond of William. Will try to write. With love— N.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 3 July 1889

  • Date: July 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I am sorry to tell you that after all my careful economy & saving, the various things into which William

I have had no manner of rest since William had the first attack a year ago last January, & I am really

You are mistaken, dear Walt, in saying that I have not written you since dear William's death.

A day or two before William passed away he awoke from a nap & asked me "if Walt had gone?"

If ever the people that owe money to William would pay me, I should not be so worried about my daily

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 26 September 1889

  • Date: September 26, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Traubel in my letter to him for the photograph of William, & also for the pictures of the "laughing Philosopher

You know he married the daughter of our dear friend William Henry Channing who used to be in Washington

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1887

  • Date: August 2, 1887
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Dear Walt, William is on his way to Bar Harbor, Maine, care Dr. Kinnear, Wall's cottage. Wm.

William was disposed to try Dr. K. as soon as he heard of his method, which is Dr.

Kinnear, & William feels that he ought—to try any one who gives him reasonable assurance of help.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 13 March 1888

  • Date: March 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Since March 1st William has been treated every A.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 November 1889

  • Date: November 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Last year I had William & Harold Channing, but I think we did not ask any guest, William was already

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1889

  • Date: December 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

My first visit to William's grave since last July when I went away.

Where do you think William is, for that is only the worn out machine in which he manifested himself while

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 23 March 1889

  • Date: March 23, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Walt,— I hoped I should be able to send you good news to-day; but instead I have to tell you that William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1889

  • Date: March 26, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I think every one of these dreadful attacks leaves William worse.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1890

  • Date: June 1, 1890
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Bucke yesterday tells me that you will write the preface for me to the volume of William's stories.

never been in type, save a part of it which the publishers had put into the printer's hands when William

Your name & William's will be associated in many ways, & this loving word from you will be a comfort

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 October 1890

  • Date: October 5, 1890
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I know that you & I feel more & more a most tender & growing love for dear William, & all his noble &

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 30 June 1890

  • Date: June 30, 1890
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I feel that , & you only , are the one person in all the world to say the right thing about William O'Connor

times in the evening & took long horsecar rides; & it brought back to mind the old days when you & William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1891

  • Date: March 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

Kimball for the Life Saving Report of the year that William died.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1891

  • Date: November 14, 1891
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

said of the children; it seemed to be, on the whole, better not to speak of the family, but only of William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1865

  • Date: January 19, 1865
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William got your letter last week, and we were all glad that you felt like coming to try the position

In your letter to William you spoke of Mrs. Davis being at Mrs. Price's.

Your letter to William about your books interested us deeply, be sure to bring your perfect copy of "

William would send love if he new that I was writing,—Jeannie is out playing & as usual, her voice is

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 July 1864

  • Date: July 5, 1864
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William says it seems so desolate since you left,—and even yet in the evening when I hear a car coming

William got your note, and answered it but he directed it to Brooklyn only, so it may not be carried

I know that William prefers & I do, too, that this trouble concerning the house & hall be settled before

Send her a note any time, & direct it to William & he will take it to her office.

pictures last week, & they are rather bad, the front face, or rather three quarter face, is hideous, William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 13 March 1889

  • Date: March 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William is gaining but is very weak and not back to the place he was before the attack.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1889

  • Date: March 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William has recovered his mental balance, and is once more rational; as he says, the "hallucinations"

no one can realize how often I have to run from one thing to another, nor how much care I have of William

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1889

  • Date: March 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

William was much pleased, not only with the gift, but with the book—type, print, all.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1889

  • Date: January 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

If things get worse I shall have to have a man to help me lift & nurse William.

I am sure he could advise me how to nurse & care for William in the best hospital manner,—as yet he has

William sends love, & is always glad to hear. He can read but not write.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1889

  • Date: March 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

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. I too. Nelly Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1889

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1907
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Calder
Text:

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

Ellen M. Abdy-Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

  • Date: March 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. Abdy-Williams
Text:

ABDY-WILLIAMS. MONTHLY, PRICE ONE SHILLING. EDITORIAL ROOM. W.

SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., WHITE HART STREET, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.

Abdy Williams Walt Whitman Rejected MSS. cannot be returned unless cover in Postage Stamps accompanies

EMA Williams Ellen M. Abdy-Williams to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1885

From Georgetown University's American Studies Crossroads Project

  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Lorang
Text:

I also knew that in some ways the College of William & Mary was ill-suited to undertake it.

Gross, College of William & Mary; Walter Grunzweig, University of Dortmund (Germany).

He has plans to develop an Iowa center for the project to complement the one at William & Mary.

Talks are currently underway at William & Mary to provide the with an expense budget.

This project has generated a high level of excitement at William & Mary.

Walt Whitman: The Last Phase

  • Date: June 1909
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Leavitt Keller
Text:

The only things that stood out vividly were the white pillow, and the placid face encircled with snowy

This, with its white wolfskin, surmounted the pile like a throne.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1 April 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones Growing among black folks as among white

Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry

  • Date: 7 June 1856
  • Creator(s): Eliot, George
Text:

the western persimmon . . . over the long-leaved corn and the delicate blue flowered flax; Over the white

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

Drum-Taps also garnered the attention of Henry James and William Dean Howells, both of whom disparaged

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980.____.

Leaves of Grass, 1860 edition

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

The book's pages were well-printed in a clear ten-point type on heavy white paper and elaborately decorated

Blodgett, Arthur Golden, and William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1980. ____.

Edward P. Cattell to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1877

  • Date: October 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward P. Cattell
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Days with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THESAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 189I BY HENRY WILLIAMS

Edinburgh PREFACE \ AY firstacquaintance with Whitman's writings (William Rossetti's edition of the Poems

,always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg— at firstsight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse," or Kirkwood, was the third or fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

mea- sured yet irregular roll of Whitman's lines to the onset of waves along a shore — now creeping white

Days with Walt Whitman: A Visit to Walt Whitman In 1877

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg—at first sight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse", or Kirkwood, was the third of fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

Philadelphia on those warm evenings) sitting out on the doorsteps—Whitman in the midst, in an armchair, his white

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 20 May 1891

  • Date: May 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

Roberts of Cambridge; William, Arthur & Ethel Thompson; and myself) are sending on to you our usual birthday

William Thompson is lately married & is working a little at bookbinding for a trade.

Diary of Edmund Gosse: Sat. Jan. 3

  • Date: 1966
  • Creator(s): Edmund Gosse
Text:

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

Database as Genre: The Epic Transformation of Archives

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

identifying bright colors and trademarks, each arguing for its uniqueness, saw endless rows of plain white

Biography of Horace Traubel

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: U of Southern Illinois P, 1982; Vol. 7. Ed.

Walling, William English. Whitman and Traubel . 1916. New York: Haskell House, 1969.

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