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Search : William White

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Monday, December 7, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He took over to Frank Williams and they had a laugh over it together.

Tuesday, December 8, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"That," he said, "must have been written by William Walsh—perhaps Harry. I guess William, however.

"Literary Symposia" up: Professor Parkhurst, Miss Repplier, Owen Wister, Frank Williams and Lincoln Eyre

Saturday, December 12, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Coates protested to Frank Williams at last Club meeting, "Why don't you say something in defense of the

The Reinhalters—this woman—and I do not know but Talcott Williams, too—our friend Talcott" (reflecting

about Williams' retention of that manuscript).

Wednesday, December 16, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As to William O'Connor's idea of Shakespeare, I don't know.

I don't know how far I was prepared to follow William in this, but it always seemed to me a profound

To William O'Connor that was the spirit which moved the writer of the plays."

Monday, December 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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which I now took.At the Bank a whole string of visitors and inquirers, among them Brinton, Frank Williams

The ground is white but not enough snow to make decent sleighing which is aggravating.

leaving him and taking a very brief run in on Billstein, I hurried towards Camden, meeting Frank Williams

Tuesday, December 22, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I have anxious letters from Gilder and Rome.Morris and Williams again anxiously in Bank this forenoon

Frank Williams heard from Stedman briefly today but with no mention of W., from which Williams concludes

s friends—deciding upon Ingersoll, Brinton, Bucke and Harned—with Frank Williams to read from old scriptures

Wednesday, December 23, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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First joints of fingers dark underneath and milky white on top.

And Frank Williams will read, at once and easily comprehending the situation and acquiescing with noble

Late in afternoon in to see Frank Williams, then to look up Murray, at Eakins', for taking cast, in case

I telegraphed to Morris, Frank Williams and others: "Holds his own."

Friday, December 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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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

Saturday, December 26, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Morris, Frank Williams and Brinton solicitous and tender.

Talcott Williams glided silently in towards 12 and stayed till 12:20.At 12:40 W. called Warrie, who was

Frank Williams over and had talk with Bucke anent funeral, and will be over again Sunday morning.Cables

Sunday, December 27, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Frank Williams had been over (we met him round the corner from W.'

Frank Williams to make a search. Bucke, instead of going tonight, will hold over till tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Among other greetings, today one from William Winter as follows: "Kindness, sympathy, hope and every

William Winter." Unlike Stoddard, he seems, today, to hold old enmities at bay.

Saturday, January 2, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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A telegram has come here from William Winter." This made him open his eyes.W.: "From Winter? Oh!"

Monday, January 4, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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quiet sleep without hiccough.2:30 Asked to have his grey English undershirt put on instead of the new white

Wednesday, January 6, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Frank Williams has been sick since Saturday but expects to be down to business again tomorrow.

Dear, dear Nellie—dear William!" H.L.T.: "You seem to enjoy something like peace just now."

Thursday, January 7, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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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

Friday, January 8, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Williams at Press. He was not in.

Williams, Garland, Harned, Tennyson—once or twice passing in to W. to ask him some question, which he

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 3)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yours respectfully,William H.

apper, indisputably for white."

He answered: "To William: I wanted William to see it: he has followed things so closely.

Yes: that 'sthat's William—the undaunted William: the fiery friend and lover."

Then exclaimed: "O William! William! If only our former days and nights could be renewed!

Thursday, November 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then he relapsed a minute—all was quiet over on the bed: "He said he dined with Rossetti—William Rossetti—while

Friday, November 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yours respectfully,William H.

Saturday, November 3, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. wanted to know what was my "real opinion of the plate," saying then: "William O'Connor fancies it

I shall send it on to Doctor to remind him that it must go back to William."

"William Summers has gone home and written a piece.

a little suspicion of Conway's lack of historic veracity: he romances: he has romanced about me: William

Sunday, November 4, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"O'Connor's orator nature—his mobile, passionate, high-strung orator nature," and spoke again of William

W. at once assented: "There is nothing in their line anywhere near equal to them: William was vehement

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

Wednesday, November 7, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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into your files: read it after you get home: we can talk some about it to-morrowtomorrow: it is in William's

Thursday, November 8, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "You 'reYou're right—it don't: sometimes I 'mI'm afraid nothing is going to help William."

W. asked: "You read William's letter—the letter I gave you to take along with you last night?"

When William gets going there 'sthere's nothing can stop him but an earthquake or a waterspout: he is

"Rees, Welsh were never the hummers William hoped they would be—wanted them to be—tried to make them:

and whenever an opening offered William would dash and hit about like a knight of the Cross."

Friday, November 9, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I have not received a single letter from anybody the whole day," W. said, "but I have written to William

He shook his head: "Poor William! poor O'Connor!

W. smiled: "I admit that 'sthat's ambiguous: but I could n'tcouldn't name William's real politics: he

"William was a strong, an ardent, anti-slavery man: he was a Republican—worked with the Fremont party

William is never a half-way man: he has the temperament of a soldier.

Saturday, November 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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to be dodged or trifled with: but after every allowance is made this fact still remains true: the white

Sunday, November 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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White, even at my expense. Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

O'Connor.W. was anxious about William.

Under what circumstances had he first met William?

Had William taken up L. of G. at the beginning?

I said: "Don't you think it significant that William recognized Leaves of Grass at the start?"

Tuesday, November 13, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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how William would delight to hear you say that!

Thursday, November 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then he said: "Clifford must n'tmustn't be scared by William: Clifford's a damsiter himself, though not

in William's way: no two men are alike: Clifford has his own powers, identities: look how he steers

Saturday, November 17, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Poetry in America: much ruffled, old, dirty, written on paper of various colors—some of it yellow, some white

Article in December issue of Magazine of Art on portraits of Dante Rossetti written by William his brother

Sunday, November 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "They are not extraneous: they all have a place: I think William was justified in all he did

"It is one of William's letters," he explained, "one of the best: full of fire—direct, explicit—with

William resembles a natural law: he is beyond appeal: he delivers himself without apologies: he kills

Grant White had a dastardly mass of lies and perversion in The Atlantic in April anent of Mrs.

White's hide off, and "hang the calf-skin on his recreant limbs."

Monday, November 19, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Williams sends us good news from Russia, that most inaccessible of all countries.

that is: William can do that sort of thing better than any man writing to-daytoday."

"Yes," said W., "I noticed what William has to say about him.

W. shook his head over William's anti-Garfield argument. "Suppress the piece? Why suppress it?

: who 'dwho'd have thought of diving for it but William?

Tuesday, November 20, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"It 'sIt's from Rossetti," he said: "I 'veI've been reading it over: William Rossetti: full of wise beautiful

Wednesday, November 21, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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contains no malice, no poison, but is vehement, aggressive, even overwhelming, not impetuous, as William

Thursday, November 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"I have been wondering if there may not be a better paper than white for our books," adding: "Has the

havealready been experimenting for centuries—three or four of them—and that this is the result: for white

apper, indisputably for white."

Friday, November 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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William Lloyd Garrison has just written an open letter to Senator Hoar treating this very same subject

He answered: "To William: I wanted William to see it: he has followed things so closely.

Last week I saw William Rossetti, and he advised me to send the amount through the Post Office, which

I shall wait very eagerly for some word from you; with great love (in which William Rossetti asked to

Saturday, November 24, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. had laid aside a William Rossetti letter for me. He handed it to me the last thing.

friendly people: none of them, of course, more nobly generous, comradely, than Rossetti himself: William

it seems queer about the William Rossetti: of course I have never seen him: I only know him in this way

Sunday, November 25, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I went up to the White House with a friend of mine, an M.

wouldn't believe until you were convinced,' as you say: you held off: you half thought I was lying: William

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 7)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We are grateful to William White, the editor of volume 6, who, regretting that he was unable to complete

William D.

Poor William! Great William!"

William! William O'Connor.

William Lloyd.

Friday, July 11, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. fervently: Yes indeed, all who knew William as I knew him will echo you on that."

Monday, July 14, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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mail to Bucke, and said, "There is a pretty malicious spot on the front page—the first review," of William

Sunday, September 7, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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WhitmanGeorge Horton in the Chicago HeraldAn old man I once saw,Bowed low was he with time,Heart-frosted, white

Wednesday, September 10, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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wondered why Gilchrist did not stop here on his recent visit to the Staffords.W. said, "Talcott Williams

Saturday, September 13, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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O, if only William O'Connor were alive! How he would take up a lance for him!

And he would say that Tolstoi's picture was true, too, for William knew all those things well—had as

Saturday, September 20, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I told him Frank Williams was in to see me. "And he was opposed to Ingersoll, wasn't he?"

Friday, September 26, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"He was a friend of William's; I thought he might be interested.

Sunday, September 28, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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enough with Southern people to feel convinced that if I lived South I should side with the Southern whites

Tuesday, September 30, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Frank Williams was in to see me today.

Friday, October 3, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then when I said she seemed to have a piety not known to William, W. said, "Yes, she has it—it is a bite

William had nothing of it—was free, great, expansive in all deeps, paths.

My main impulse was to authoritatively clap it down forever that this was my love for William and by

'The Brazen Android' I have never seen, though William made the notes for it before he knew me."

Sunday, October 5, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Captain Williams, assistant secretary, said that he had not heard anything about such an application.Several

that case we trust you will allow us an opportunity to consider it.I am, dear Sir, Faithfully Yours,William

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