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Search : William White

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Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 29 September 1871

  • Date: September 29, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 3 October 1871

  • Date: October 3, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 3 October 1871

  • Date: October 3, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 31 December 1870

  • Date: December 31, 1870
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 4 January 1871

  • Date: January 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 4 November 1871

  • Date: November 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Melanie Krupa Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 4 November 1871

  • Date: November 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Melanie Krupa Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 4 November 1871

  • Date: November 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Melanie Krupa Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 5 January 1871

  • Date: January 5, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 5 January 1871

  • Date: January 5, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Joshua Ware John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 6 October 1871

  • Date: October 6, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 7 December 1871

  • Date: December 7, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 7 January 1871

  • Date: January 7, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

noted: Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 7 October 1871

  • Date: October 7, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
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the Attorney of the U.S. for New Mexico, to the Solicitor of the Treasury, relative to the case of William

Bristow, Solicitor General & Acting Attorney General. case of William Knorr New Mex. see p. 219 ante

to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang John Schwaninger Anthony Dreesen Benjamin Helm Bristow to William

Bibliographies

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

White's "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay" (1985); Donald D.

William Peterfield Trent et al. Vol. 3. New York: Putnam, 1918. 551–581.[Kebabian, Paul, et al.].

New York: New York Public Library, 1953.Kennedy, William Sloane.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922.White, William. "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Checklist."

Chesley Mathews, 445–451.White, William. "Whitman in the Eighties: A Bibliographical Essay."

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

Poet and Person (1867) was co-written by Whitman to promote the fourth edition of Leaves of Grass; William

upon information from Whitman associates such as Traubel and Ellen O'Connor Calder, the widow of William

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.

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

"Black and White Slaves."

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"Black and White Slaves." "Black and White Slaves."

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White Slavery," and was created

by a Northern slavery apologist named Edward Williams Clay.

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Annotations Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Vintage Books, 1996), 125–127.; The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Blake, William (1757–1827)

  • Creator(s): Bidney, Martin
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MartinBidneyBlake, William (1757–1827)Blake, William (1757–1827) Introspective psychological mythmaker

and political as well as cosmic visionary, poet-artist William Blake wrote and illustrated verse of

Blake, William. The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman.

William Blake and the Moderns. Ed. Robert J. Bertholf and Annette S. Levitt.

Blake, William (1757–1827)

Bohemians in America

  • Date: [1882 or before]
  • Creator(s): Jay Charlton
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table Henry Clapp, Walt Whitman, Fitz James O'Brien, Ned Wilkins, George Arnold, Sheppard, Gardette, William

William Winter was its literary critic.

William Winter came from the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle in 1859.

Our transcription is based on William Shepard, ed., Pen Pictures of Modern Authors (New York: G. P.

Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

Gertrude Traubel and William White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982.

Book Notices

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

By William C. Prime. TENT LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND. By William C.

A Boston Ballad.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

A Boston Ballad.

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

For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your great

A Boston Ballad. (1854.)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be; Here gape your great grand-sons—their wives

"Boston Ballad (1854), A" (1855)

  • Creator(s): Klammer, Martin
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be resisted not to protect the freedom and rights of blacks, but to protect the freedom of Northern white

A Boston Ballad, the 78th Year of These States

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

Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be, Here gape your smart grand-sons—their wives

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

Boston, Massachusetts

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
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It was on this trip, as well, that Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor, who would become one of his

The Boy-Lover

  • Date: May 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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We took our seats round the same clean, white table, and received our favorite beverage in the same bright

placid face, and the same untrembling fingers—him that seventh day saw a clay-cold corpse, shrouded in white

British Isles, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Thomas, M. Wynn
Text:

It was, in fact, by relating Whitman to William Blake, or to Percy Bysshe Shelley, that many radicals

Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), the great Welsh-language poet Waldo Williams, and of course Dylan Thomas,

Burgess pointed out, distinguished British composers have remedied this deficiency: Ralph Vaughan Williams's

British Romantic Poets

  • Creator(s): French, R.W.
Text:

well acquainted with the works of the British Romantic poets, none of them mattered to him as did William

probably dating from 1855 or 1856 specifically rebuked Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William

Swinburne's William Blake, which concluded with a laudatory comparison of Whitman and Blake.

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

Broad-Axe Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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those of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white

forming in line, the echoed rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinioned arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipped

the old response, Take what I have then, (saying fain,) take the pay you approached for, Take the white

Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
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after he began editing the Times, Whitman wrote the editorials "Kansas and the Political Future" and "White

If this is so, Whitman observes, then slaves are as capable as white Americans and deserve the rights

Brooklyn, New York

  • Creator(s): Gill, Jonathan
Text:

the Whitmans lived, near the port and ferry terminals, was chaotic and dirty, densely populated with white

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present

  • Date: 5 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Johnson said that, in his youth, he had visited and seen this grandson, whose name was William Jansen

William told his young visitor "I took one bag on each shoulder, one in each hand, and one in my teeth

This William lived to be 80 years of age, and died so late as 1805.

Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, Past and Present

  • Date: 3 June 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, Jacob Ryerson, Alert Aersen, Tunis Buys-Garret Cowenhoven, Gabriel Sprong, Urian Andries, John Williams

Brooklyniana, No. 10

  • Date: 8 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 11

  • Date: 15 February 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

Brooklyniana, No. 13.

  • Date: 1 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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There, too, is Rockaway beach, so white and silvery, calm and pleasant, enough, perhaps, with its long-rolling

Brooklyniana, No. 15

  • Date: 15 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

as we write, remember the scene, now more than thirty-five years ago—the group of bent, thin-faced, white-haired

Sale, William A. Sale was one of the builders of Old St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn.

William Furman served as county judge before Leffert Lefferts. Secretary—Freeman Hopkins.

William Quinn. The African M. E.

Church was the African Methodist Episcopal Church, for which William Quinn was the first and only church-planting

Brooklyniana, No. 17.

  • Date: 5 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It was rumored that he converted President William Henry Harrison. His son John N.

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Whitman.

40, The old Log Cabin to which Whitman refers was likely part of the 1840 "log cabin campaign" of William

Udall, William M.

Brooklyniana, No. 35

  • Date: 30 August 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In 1636, at the request of Charles I, the Plymouth Company transferred to William Alexander, Earl of

The snow-white floor was sprinkled with fine sand, which was curiously stroked with a broom into fantastic

first carpet said to have been introduced into the colony was found in the house of the pirate, Kidd, William

Brooklyniana, No. 35.—Continued.

  • Date: 6 September 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Looms, too, were in common use, and piles of home-spun cloth and snow-white linen attested the industry

Brooklyniana, No. 37

  • Date: 11 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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He was an independent, God-worshipping man, and exercised great influence for good over both whites and

Brooklyniana, No. 38

  • Date: 25 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

colors, and stones of every conceivable shape, hue, and destiny, with shells, large boulders of a pure white

Brooklyniana, No. 39

  • Date: 1 November 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See William Rounseville Alger, The Life of Edwin Forrest (New York: Lippincott, 1877), 2:649.

We hove in sight of the steeples and white paint of home, and soon after, the spirits we had served deserted

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Three beads of this black money, and six of white, were equivalent to an English penny, or a Dutch stuyver

Brooklyniana, No. 5

  • Date: 4 January 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

"David and William Campbell, Builders. April 6, 1808." TO BE CONTINUED. This piece is unsigned.

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