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Search : William White

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A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman

  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist [unsigned in original]
Text:

what is unsuitable is also unintelligible to her; and, if no dark shadow from without be cast on the white

In a letter on July 19, 1869, William Michael Rossetti had urged Gilchrist to "suppress" her name; see

The Letters of William Michael Rossetti , ed.

writing positively of it in his December 9, 1869 letter to Rossetti and in his May 11, 1870 letter to William

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, 4 September 1873

  • Date: September 4, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

sweet thoughts flow into my breast that longs & longs to pillow on itself the suffering head (with white

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 14 May 1874

  • Date: May 14, 1874
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Did I tell you William Rossetti and his bride were spending their honeymoon at Naples?

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 20 May 1873

  • Date: May 20, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti is comin to see me Thursday, before starting for his holiday trip to Naples.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

I did not see William Rossetti before I came down but heard that he had had a very happy time in Italy

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.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 13 November 1878

  • Date: November 13, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Since that was written a friend (Walter White) tells me they—the Tennysons—have taken a house in Eaton

Annotations Text:

Walter White had been a friend of Anne Gilchrist's late husband, Alexander Gilchrist.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 14 January 1879

  • Date: January 14, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

See Lilian Whiting, Louise Chandler Moulton, Poet and Friend (1910).

His daughters were Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown and Mary Lesley Ames (both mentioned in Whitman's

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1879

  • Date: March 26, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

great deal of the educated coloured people at Boston—was at the meeting of a literary club—the only white

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1878

  • Date: September 3, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

John White Chadwick (1840–1904), who termed himself a radical Unitarian, was the pastor of the Second

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 18 April 1881

  • Date: April 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

The Rossetti's too have been to see us—we didn't think William in the best health or spirits—& his wife

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 8 May 1882

  • Date: May 8, 1882
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

In a letter to me, William, who was the best, most faithful & loving of brothers to him, says, "I doubt

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1873

  • Date: November 3, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Have you heard, I wonder, of William Rossetti's approaching marriage.

Lucy is a very sweet tempered cultivated loveable lovable woman well fitted I should say to make William

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, September 1877

  • Date: September 1877
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

He used various names to refer to the farm, including White Horse, Timber Creek, and Kirkwood.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1880

  • Date: March 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti spent good Friday afternoon with us; was very pleased with Herby's work.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1880

  • Date: June 15, 1880
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti and I were talking of it.

Anna M. Wilkinson to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1884

  • Date: July 21, 1884
  • Creator(s): Anna M. Wilkinson
Annotations Text:

William White, 2:337).

Society for the Suppression of Vice

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

By 1882 his influence and power were so pervasive that several of Whitman's friends (e.g., William Douglas

that Comstock finally "retire[d] with his tail intensely curved inwards" (Correspondence 3:338–339).William

Walt Whitman's Champion: William Douglas O'Connor.

"Noiseless Patient Spider, A" (1868)

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 4.4 (1987): 29–31.White, Fred D. "Whitman's Cosmic Spider."

Parodies

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

Intermediate Geography" (Falk 138).Some parodies were downright mean-spirited, like Richard Grant White's

But mainly White views Whitman as a drunken, disreputable boaster reveling in physical corruption—"Of

White especially takes umbrage at Whitman's vision "Of the beauty of flat-nosed, pock-marked" Africans

White's, is Helen Gray Cone's verse dialogue, "Narcissus in Camden: A Classical Dialogue of the Year

New York: Scribner's, 1922.Zaranka, William, ed. The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry.

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

comprises all of Whitman's notebooks and unpublished prose manuscripts except those published in William

White's Daybooks and Notebooks (1978).

it is of limited interest and value (e.g., Whitman's factual notes on geography in volume 5); even William

White questioned whether lists of melons and other meaningless or only partially legible fragments should

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

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

Edmund Gurney (1847-1888); Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901); Sergei Alexseevich Askol'dov (Alekseev

(Juan Rodríguez Montoya, 1920-2006). some at Modern Spain and the White Review , conserved the sacred

Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

New York: Bliss and White, 1825. Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

Carlyle, Thomas (1795–1881)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

Carlyle insists in his Occasional Discourse that blacks are naturally inferior to whites, and although

"'Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The'" (1891)

  • Creator(s): Altman, Matthew C.
Text:

the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks and whites

Personal Memories of Walt Whitman

  • Date: November 1891
  • Creator(s): Alma Calder Johnston
Text:

sunshine, the trees of Central park, opposite our door, for a background, a baby boy in his arms, his white

Rushing through intervening doors and passages, I found Walt Whitman standing ashy white, and the huge

Walt Whitman & the World

  • Date: 1995
  • Creator(s): Allen, Gay Wilson | Folsom, Ed
Text:

This is what William Carlos Williams learned from Whitman, the natural cadence, the flow ofbreath as

Roger Asselineau and William White, eds.Walt Whitman in Europe Today (Detroit: Wayne State University

See Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt Whitman in Europe Today (De troit: Wayne State University

See Asselineau and White, Walt Whitman, 1B-19. 1B.William White, ed., The Bicentennial Walt Whitman (

Mariolina Meliado-Freeth, "Walt Whitman in Italy," in Roger Asselineau and William White, eds., Walt

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): Alger, William Rounseville
Text:

The attribution of this review to William Rounseville Alger is indebted to Gary Scharnhorst's article

Gilchrist, Anne Burrows (1828–1885)

  • Creator(s): Alcaro, Marion Walker
Text:

After Alexander's death in 1861, with the help of his friends William Michael and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Englishwoman who fell passionately in love with Walt Whitman when she read Leaves of Grass, lent to her by William

And to William Sloane Kennedy he wrote that with Anne "you did not have to abate the wing of your thought

Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden (1857–1914)

  • Creator(s): Alcaro, Marion Walker
Text:

However, in the winter that the Gilchrists spent in New York (1878–1879), he studied under William Merritt

Albert G. Knapp to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1876

  • Date: April 2, 1876
  • Creator(s): Albert G. Knapp
Text:

appearance & seemingly past the middle age since his hair & face beard were plentifully sprinkled with white

Albert C. Hopkins to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1892

  • Date: March 14, 1892
  • Creator(s): Albert C. Hopkins
Text:

for the stars, the centre representing the Central government or Capital, from which radiate in the white

Abraham Stoker to Walt Whitman, 18 February 1872

  • Date: February 18, 1872
  • Creator(s): Abraham Stoker
Text:

Shelley wrote to William Godwin and they became friends.

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
Text:

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, Edited by WILLIAM A.

Abraham Simpson to Walt Whitman, 19 August 1867

  • Date: August 19, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson
Text:

Edited by William A. Hammond, M.D., and E. S. Dunster, M.D. Subscription, $5,00 per annum. II.

Edited by William A. Hammond, M.D. Subscription, $5,00 per annum. III.—The Philobiblion.

By William Seller, M.D., etc., and Henry Stephens. A book for every Farmer and Rearer of Cattle.

By William Murray, M.D., etc. (In press.) LIGHT; ITS INFLUENCE ON LIFE AND HEALTH.

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

  • Date: December 2, 1880
  • Creator(s): A. Williams
Text:

Williams This letter from A. Williams has been crossed out.

Williams to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1880

A. Williams to Walt Whitman, [1880]

  • Date: 1880
  • Creator(s): A. Williams
Text:

Williams & Co. A. Williams to Walt Whitman, [1880]

A. Van Rensellaer to Walt Whitman, 30 July 1865

  • Date: July 30, 1865
  • Creator(s): A. Van Rensellaer
Text:

It was in the winter time, I think in '64 I went up to the White House with a friend of mine, an M.

[These I, singing in spring]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white

[Long I thought that knowledge]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm; On three pieces of white

[Hours continuing long]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm; On two pieces of white

[You bards of ages hence]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm; On two sections of white

[When I heard at the close of]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00080[When I heard at the close of]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

Calamus-Leaves

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

50-51uva.00310xxx.00066xxx.00083Calamus-Leaves1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On white wove

City of my walks and joys

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

In the garden

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; A composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

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