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"I write three hours per day, haunt the Delaware River most of the time, am a good liver, not a teetotaler
"I write three hours a day, haunt the Delaware river much of the time, am a good liver and not a teetotaler
offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river
Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.
last 2 11 At the Mouth of the River Last of the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward
ecstatic life-pourings as it were of precious wine or rose - water on vast desert sands or great polluted river—taking
Philadelphia)—I keep pretty well, considering—dont go out at all till toward sundown, but get on the river
As I write it is a delightful day—temperature perfect—I take the car to the ferry, & get out on the river
Bill sent me a young mocking bird—his home is at a small town on the red-river in La. but he is running
He resides here, near the Delaware river, in a little cottage of his own, with a good "house-lady," as
a sonnet of Hood's, or a dainty bit of verse by Longfellow has form; but he has form as a tree, a river
how you would too, sort of human Delaware river. With best love Herbert H Gilchrist.
hard: The landscape is truly enshrouding a white country, snow enveloped , hill, valley, lake and river
Camden is a prosperous city of some fifty thousand souls, situated on the left bank of the Delaware river
eyes roamed in an absent way among the stars that twinkled alike in the sky and on Philadelphia's river
hope you have been able to wend to and fro daily on the great ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river
The manuscript has the cancelled title At the Mouth of the River.