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Search : William White

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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

American Poets Part 1

  • Date: 4 April 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti. London: John Camden Hotten. 1868.

The article focuses on descriptive poetry quoting from Taylor's "Lars," William Gilmore Simms, Alfred

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
Text:

Sigourney, the chief poetess of the United States, of the classical William Cullen Bryant, the Catholic

The monk endeavours to console him with the prospect of eternal rest, the white robe and the golden crown

White the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping

William Michael Rossetti was principally concerned in introducing his works into the English market;

Matthiessen, F.O. (1902–1950)

  • Creator(s): Dye, Renée
Text:

provocative, and American Renaissance remains today a critical force in Whitman studies.Bibliography Cain, William

Individualism

  • Creator(s): Duggar, Margaret H.
Text:

, a gigantic embryo or skeleton of Personality, fit for the West, for native models," he wrote to William

American Primer, An (1904)

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
Text:

William White. New York: New York UP, 1978. 728–757. American Primer, An (1904)

Language

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
Text:

that Whitman was the coauthor or ghostwriter of Rambles Among Words, published in 1859 by his friend William

William White. 3 vols. New York: New York UP, 1978.____.

Walt Whitman by Dr. William Reeder, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
Text:

William Reeder, 1891 Dr. William Reeder was a Philadelphia physician and admirer of Whitman.

William Reeder, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by Dr. William Reeder, 1891

  • Date: 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
Text:

William Reeder, 1891 Dr. William Reeder was a Philadelphia physician and admirer of Whitman.

William Reeder, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Dr. William Reeder to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

  • Date: November 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. William Reeder
Text:

William Reeder to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 29 November 1890

  • Date: November 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

had our first fall of snow here today, & very beautiful did the outside world look, all robed in its white

fair This morn are everywhere: For snow has fallen in the night And robed the slumb'ring world in white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 11 June 1891

  • Date: June 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Longaker, Horace Traubel & his bride (married in your room, Warry tells us) Talcott Williams, David McKay

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 17 June 1891

  • Date: June 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

Gilchrist Talcot Williams O'Dowd Sarrazin S. Kennedy Miss Whitman Dr Longaker Capt Howell H. L.

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, 16 May 1891

  • Date: May 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

We send you the Review of Reviews & Black & White P.P.S.

Annotations Text:

The Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was an illustrated British weekly periodical

In 1912, the Black & White was incorporated with another periodical, The Sphere.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

morning & especially the drive in the Country where the gardens are now all radiant with blossom—the white

the cherry & the plum (—the plum blossom appears before the leaves) & the sweetly delicate pink & white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 15 July 1891

  • Date: July 15, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

This morning I read a short letter from your friend Talcott Williams acknowledging rec t of the facsimile

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, 11 March 1891

  • Date: March 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

truly glorious day here—an easterly wind with bright sunshine, a beautiful blue sky with great snow-white

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1891

  • Date: April 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I also send you this week's Black & White wh: contains a portrait of and article on Bismarck —one of

Annotations Text:

The Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was an illustrated British weekly periodical

In 1912, the Black & White was incorporated with another periodical, The Sphere.

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

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 3 June 1891

  • Date: June 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

sycamores & mountain ashes, overlooking a wide expanse of pastoral country dotted with old time, grey & white

In the middle distance lay the lake, to purple waters sparkling in the sunshine & rippling in tiny white-crested

At our feet lay the white roadway & the grey stone work of the low-arched bridge at one end of which

Upon the lovely landscape the sun shone with dazzling effulgence from out the white-cloud-flecked empyrean

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1891

  • Date: November 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I send you this week's Black & White & Christian Commonwealth containing portraits of & articles on two

Annotations Text:

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

The Black & White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review was an illustrated British weekly periodical

In 1912, the Black & White was incorporated with another periodical, The Sphere.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1892

  • Date: March 26, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 27 December 1890

  • Date: December 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

As I write the sun is shining fitfully on the white-roofed houses & a few sparrows are pecking up the

The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman

  • Date: July 1871
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

, of original grandeur and elegance of design, with the masses of gay colour, the preponderance of white

and sunny temperament, a sight to draw near and look upon with her large figure, her profuse snow-white

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 18 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Dowden, Edward
Text:

would revive the sights and sounds and smells of his Long Island youth, the "stretch of interminable white-brown

the schooner-yachts going in a good wind—"those daring, careening things of grace and wonder, those white

gorges, the streams of amber and bronze, brawling along their beds with frequent cascades and snow-white

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

Art and Daguerreotype Galleries

  • Creator(s): Dougherty, James
Text:

Kensett, William Sidney Mount, and George Caleb Bingham prior to its yearly lottery of paintings.

Nature

  • Creator(s): Doudna, Martin K.
Text:

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

Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]

  • Creator(s): Donlon, David Breckenridge
Text:

David BreckenridgeDonlonThayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W.

Eldridge [1837–1903]Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W.

The firm also published Echoes of Harper's Ferry (1860), by James Redpath, and William Douglas O'Connor's

Thayer, William Wilde. "Autobiography of William Wilde Thayer." Unpublished manuscript, 1892.

Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

  • Creator(s): Deshae E. Lott
Text:

William Douglas O'Connor photograph of William Douglas O'Connor Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor . College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1978.

O'Connor, William Douglas. "The Carpenter: A Christmas Story."

"O'Connor, William Douglas [1832–1889]," by Deshae E.

Biography of William Douglas O'Connor

Deborah V. Browning to Walt Whitman, 18 July 1880

  • Date: July 18, 1880
  • Creator(s): Deborah V. Browning
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:35.

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

Realism

  • Creator(s): Dean, Thomas K.
Text:

Paul Zweig notes, for both Whitman and later realists like Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser (and William

Howells, William Dean. "First Impressions of Literary New York."

"Quakers and Quakerism"

  • Creator(s): Dean, Susan Day
Text:

enjoyed free-ranging conversations with local Quaker acquaintances.His maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

(Van Velsor), brought Quaker culture from the Williams home when she married Cornelius Van Velsor.

culture whose chief contribution to democracy lay in the past.In 1889 one of Whitman's supporters, William

Unpublished manuscript, 1995.Kennedy, William Sloane. "Quaker Traits of Walt Whitman."

David Hutcheson to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1880

  • Date: November 24, 1880
  • Creator(s): David Hutcheson
Annotations Text:

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:212).

Hicks, Elias (1748–1830)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

grandfather, Jesse Whitman, and Hicks had been friendly as youths, and his maternal grandmother, Naomi Williams

Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

William White. Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

Smith, Logan Pearsall (1865–1946)

  • Creator(s): Davey, Christina
Text:

Smith devoted a chapter of Unforgotten Years to his remembrances of Whitman; however, William White has

version of the Smiths' arrangements for this visit differs from accounts found in sources cited by White

White, William. "Logan Pearsall Smith on Walt Whitman: A Correction and Some Unpublished Letters."

Dana Estes to Walt Whitman, 14 January 1890

  • Date: January 14, 1890
  • Creator(s): Dana Estes
Text:

WINTHROP, GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, JOHN G. WHITTIER, GEORGE BANCROFT, NOAH PORTER, JOSEPH H.

PRINCE, WILLIAM W. STORY, PHILLIPS BROOKS, CHARLES W.

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

conquered, The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his or- ders orders through a countenance white

, Near by the corpse of the child that served in the cabin, The dead face of an old salt with long white

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray

ly unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend…its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

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

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

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

It's like beauty; like a handsome person; I've seen 'em them : Negroes, Indians, white, yellow, men,

women, children, babies, short, tall, well, sick, long-haired, short-haired, white-haired, red-haired

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

s photos: came today & I have written my name on them & sent them back (addressing the package to William

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