Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in the journals. For example: Fight. All instances of the use of the word fight will show up on the results page.
Using an asterisk (*) will increase the odds of finding the results you are seeking. For example: Fight*. The search results will display every instance of fight, fights, fighting, etc. More than one wildcard may be used. For example: *ricar*. This search will return most references to the Aricara tribe, including Ricara, Ricares, Aricaris, Ricaries, Ricaree, Ricareis, and Ricarra. Using a question mark (?) instead of an asterisk (*) will allow you to search for a single character. For example, r?n will find all instances of ran and run, but will not find rain or ruin.
Searches are not case sensitive. For example: george will come up with the same results as George.
Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: "This white pudding we all esteem".
Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
| Entering in only one field | Searches |
|---|---|
| Year, Month, & Day | Single day |
| Year & Month | Whole month |
| Year | Whole year |
| Month & Day | 1600-#-# to 2100-#-# |
| Month | 1600-#-1 to 2100-#-31 |
| Day | 1600-01-# to 2100-12-# |
My first meeting with Walt Whitman occurred when I was a boy and had occasion to ask for a certain residence
I did not know who or what he was, but on his answering my question I was so struck with the quality
My first visit to him occurred some years later, in the little house on Mickle Street which has been
matter of punctuation, and it was a source of annoyance to find the title of his latest book, "Good Bye My
The table was set for four, and I, the youngest of the party and the sole representative of my sex, had
for my vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar
I mentioned a name that had more than once come to my mind, as we talked,—Victor Hugo.
My companion assented. I added with enthusiasm, "It has been a perfectly happy day to me, Mr.
My last glimpse of him was in his house at Camden, when he was recovering from a long illness.
first met Whitman, beginning a friendship that will always form one of the pleasantest memories of my
The task in question, however, would naturally have fallen to my colleague and intimate friend, Frederic
before, I believe—he dropped in upon Guernsey at the Herald and introduced himself with the words: "My
Making known my errand, he greeted me cordially.
"In the moral, emotional, heroic, and human growths (the main of a race in my opinion), something of
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY.
My health is somewhat better, and my spirit at peace.
Indeed all my ferry friends—captain Frazee the superintendent, Lindell, Hiskey, Fred Rauch, Price, Watson
my ear.
Gilchrist—friends of my soul—stanchest friends of my other soul, my poems. ONLY A NEW FERRY BOAT.