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I was down by the river, loafing some. Then went across on the boat. "Ah!"

south window I can see a far-stretching and noble view, many, many miles of open ground, the Potomac river

We tried to get some fruit on this side of the river but couldn't get anything nice enough to satisfy

At once across the river—up to Bush's in 6th Avenue elevated—to 18th.

I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.

The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

well again & that you open the check draughts of your hurrying life now & then.I sit here facing the river

"By and by we shall go to the river." When I left he gave me the package to mail.

Trees, farms, cities, the clouds, rivers, sunset, workingmen, factories, dogs—oh!

He dwelt with eloquent voice upon the aspect of the river.

"The mere air this evening is a blessed thing to breathe in—but the river seemed rarely fine—I watched

I urged him to go out and to the river, by all means—and he assenting—"as soon as it is a little cooler

He had been down to the river. I told him of Talcott Williams' note, saying he had a report of W.'

"We have come from the river again—were right down to the water's edge—lintered there a long time, breathing

suggestiveness of this beautiful evening—twilight—the trees across the way there—the clouded northern sky—the river

Just the other day he was complaining of the restrictions against bathing along the river front, and

Warren, pushing him, was dubious, but W. said, "Let's push on to the river."

I said: "Across the river for a long walk." He cried: "I quite envigesenvy you!"

I had just crossed the river, which was aroused to fury, the dust horrible, the boat tipped clean to

buildings which had "struck me with admiration"—and "The grass even more than the trees out there by the river—oh

I envy you fellows who can go about, who have something to do—who cross the river, work, see the sunsets—free

I may be able to send you a book—The Book of Browney Valley, (Browney being the name of the little river

I spoke of the driver of a wagon on the Chestnut Street hill by the river: "his horse fell down—could

Camden "into the shipyards" and "enjoyed there the industry, the sky, the city opposite, the flowing river

It seemed less the suggestion of a river than of a country flooded—except that the stream came down without

said: "If I get out as the weather grows milder I'll want to see these wonders: I'll get across the river

Just the few minutes before, in crossing the river I had seen the Missouri being put into her wharf.

And when I said, "I think it is rather hotter over the river," he allowed, "Likely, likely—but it seems

"Yes," he said, to my question, "Yes, I have been out—down to the river: and how beautiful—oh!

"The river is my elixir," he finally said—"and such."

Had just returned from river. Said, "I think I have had—have—a return of the grip."

never told you) that when I was a lad, working in a lawyer's office, it fell to me to go over the river

We crossed the river without event and to 9th and Green.

Neither have the clouds distinction—or the haughty rivers."

And the stomach is in direct communication with the sun, the air, the rivers—" &c.

I talked of the great sunset, and he was all ears: "I think I see—yes, I do see it—the river there—the

him we are still about as we were, weathering it out—not consciously retreating—getting off to the river

W. out on my arrival—had gone to the river between 6 and 7.

Was very cordial tonight—had a good color—and said that he felt rather better—had been to the river,

occasion, and tell him we think of him at Concord as often as we look out over the meadow across the river

now as they did then, and they are an emblem to all believers and poets of the landscape beyond the river

Then I went over the river and at once to Ferguson's, where I talked with Myrick, head of the composing

W. wore his bright blue gown, and said: "I have just been out to my favorite companion—the river!

It will be mostly a Camden clientele, anyhow, with, perhaps, a good palpable fringe from across the river

"I drove up as far as Pea Shore—right up to the river, halting there for half an hour, looking over the

Went into warm and fine discourse of "the grandeur of river sights—sounds: the waters, skies, the big

But the levee at New Orleans—its own type—curious among river fronts—certainly in America."

But he will never set the river afire."

W. gave me to mail in Philadelphia (I was about to go over the river) a letter he had written to O'Connor

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

with squalid children picking them over, and dirty alleys, and courts and houses half roofless, and a river

And the river! It was a "glory" to him—"the more suspicion of it."

And our rivers, spirit, life."

"I suppose nothing startling is going on—yet the countless rills run on, the rivers, the seas flow and

I got out yesterday—out and to the river. It was a rare treat."