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Search : William White

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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.

[A leaf for hand-in-hand]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00098[A leaf for hand-in-hand]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

emerge on the opposite bank—others are just entering the ford—while, Scarlet, and blue, and snowy white

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while, Scarlet and blue and snowy white

Delicate Cluster.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Delicate Cluster.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Cavalry Crossing a Ford.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while, Scarlet and blue and snowy white

Walt Whitman to Charles E. Shepard, 19 December 1888

  • Date: December 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 479, where the poet lists Shepard as one of

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

Tuesday, December 4, 1888.

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

"I took Alexander Gardner's sheet—the title page: it had quite a good deal of white paper: wrote a long

William was very furious about it: it was bandied about Washington—got into the papers: William asked

That was William: I suppose he was right: I needed only to make a simple public statement: I would be

I submit here the document prepared for William by W. and passed into my hands since by Nellie O'Connor

Dear William O'Connor:As you were interested in Mr.

He Is Ignored at Home

  • Date: 13 October 1889
  • Creator(s): J. W. K.
Text:

The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

Sunday, May 11, 1890

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

Osceola was like a great many of the niggers—like Douglass—in being of mixed blood, having a dash of white

And the parent disclaimed all his white stock heritage—kept up the chieftainly character.

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1867

  • Date: August 2, 1867
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

babe—all but the young man and his wife were in the wagon drawn by 4 oxen—the wagon covered with dirty white

leading with a rope a fine old cow—a young cow and calf were alongside—under the wagon was a large white

Calamus-Leaves

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

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

Behold This Swarthy Face

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

BEHOLD this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon

Marion Harry Spielmann to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1891

  • Date: March 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Marion Harry Spielmann
Text:

"Black & White" 33, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. 16th March 189 1. Sir/.

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 6 [December 1878]

  • Date: December 6, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden New Jersey Nov 6 evening Have just return'd this afternoon from White Horse—(a week's visit—)—

Where the little musk ox

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

life car is drawn on its slip‑noose At dinner on a dish of huckleberries, or rye bread and a round white

Delicate Cluster.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ah my woolly white and crim- son crimson ! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!

Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on really deep waters, (I

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 14 February [1877]

  • Date: February 14, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitamn | Walt Whitman
Text:

Stevens Street Camden Feb February 14—p m Dearest friend I returned last evening from a week's stay at 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

[Earth]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

W. A. Field to Hamilton Fish, 30 June 1869

  • Date: June 30, 1869
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

communicated to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Navy has been requested to keep the "Whiting

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

[Sometimes]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

[How can there be immortality]

  • Date: about 1855
Text:

]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 14.5 cm; These lines, appearing on a very small section of white

Nehemiah Whitman

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White

— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1 see next page—bottom Jesse Whitman, born Jan. 29, 1749 died

—Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White

Public School Education

  • Date: 10 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting, in favor of excluding from the list of studies Astronomy, Zoology, Algebra, Geometry and Physiology

Whiting, or any of them, should be dispensed with.

Whiting's resolution, and now after reflection we see many reasons for sympathising with his feelings

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 7 June 1864

  • Date: June 7, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

not felt first rate myself— I am going to write to George to-day, as I see there is a daily mail to White

field near Richmond much better than we did from the Wilderness & Fredericksburgh—We get them now from White

House, they are put on boats there, & come all the way here, about 160 or 70 miles—White House is only

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1877

  • Date: November 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

American Primer, An (1904)

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

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walter Whitman, Sr., Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, George Washington Whitman, Andrew Jackson Whitman, Hannah Louisa Whitman, and Edward Whitman, 14 March 1848

  • Date: March 14, 1848
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

I have written one to Mr Brown and William Devoe and (as Walter said in his last letter) I shall write

Flowers of every description were on some of the tombs, large white roses and red ones too were all along

"Excelsior" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

Julie A.Rechel-White"Excelsior" (1856)"Excelsior" (1856)"Excelsior" appeared in the 1856 Leaves as "Poem

Texas Studies in Literature and Language 17 (1976): 777–785.Rechel-White, Julie A.

[I dreamed in a dream of a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00100[I dreamed in a dream of a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf9.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[To the young man]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[O you whom I often and silently come where you are]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

often and silently come where you are]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

Calamus 19

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Behold this swarthy and unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my neck

Thoughts 5

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

To a Cantatrice

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

Thoughts 5

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone, Sinking there, while

The Pallid Wreath.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

is, Let it remain back there on its nail suspended, With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 11 October [1876]

  • Date: October 11, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Oct 11 p m Dearest friend I am spending a few days down at the old farm, "White Horse" —wandering most

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 December 1890

  • Date: December 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden Sat: pm Dec: 27 '90 Snow storm two days—all white out—of course I am imprison'd—sent off four

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company, 7 June 1881

  • Date: June 7, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

typographical show of my poems—how they shall show (negatively as well as absolutely) on the black & white

Tuesday, September 3, 1889

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

some number of the Critic—July 8th, June 8th—in which she was told Lowell has something to say about William

I must have an envelope for my pictures—a good strong capacious white envelope—capacious, for the pictures

And to a reference to Talcott Williams—"I have known Talcott Williams now ten years—in a sense intimately—and

Friday, July 13, 1888.

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

O'Connor never forgave me the William piece—nor did Tucker.

I thought William knew me better.

I am sure, however, that William will come to see it all right by and bye—will realize that my position

If we put November Boughs into that shape, using fine white paper, giving the pages a good margin, the

Wednesday, December 23, 1891

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

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."

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