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145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]
1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published
wind due eastSept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wetabout 1879prose2 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Swallows on the River
Even yesterday, when the wind whistled its way and raced madly and blew keenly up from the river, the
You people across the river should be able to talk better of him than I can.
Have had some beautiful glimpses of the North & East River effects of the shipping at sunset, &c.
for me—To day is very clear, but cold & windy—I have been out some two hours enjoying it—cross'd the river—The
Esopus April 29 All goes well—enjoyed my journey up the river that afternoon & evening—10½ when I got
in—Every thing soothes, comforts, invigorates me here—the hills, rocks, sky, river, nearer & more to
crystallized )—but discover that I need a spell of quiet and slip shod—Thought I should like the Delaware river
built soon after the Norman conquest, is in sight, crowning a wooded hill that rises abruptly from the river-side
You would not dignify the Weir with the name of a river in America—it is no bigger than Timber Creek—but
sometimes quite long ones) in the papers hereabouts— Love to 'Sula— Walt Whitman That Del: Delaware river
I was not quite a week on the river. I slept in my boat or under it all the time.
great part—(the "School of Athens" in the magazine, & the thoughts, & statistics about the Mississippi River
all winter— The picture at the beginning of this letter is the St Louis bridge over the Mississippi river
—I often go down to the river, or across this bridge—it is one of my favorite sights—but the air of
Wondrous rivers, railroads everywhere, plenty of wood, interminable and fertile meadows, wheat, fruit
We have had a touch of winter here, & the river is frozen over, but to-day it is thawing again.