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Indeed, one of the very first things he did on his arrival here on Friday was to go over the river and
pedition (my brother Jeffwith me,) through allthe Middle States,and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
From across the river were also adozen figuresof young men do- ing handiwork ina rising literature,and
You of Camden can claim Walt Whitman foryour own, but you must letus of the bigger town acrossthe river
The' only time I ever saw Lincoln was hisdead face in Independence Hall over across the river.
Westminster to Waterloo Bridges this afternoon with the tide—higher than usual—just at the full; the river
I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.
Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
Walt lives across the river in a quiet old town, just opposite this city.
but two things now from which I derive any satisfaction, Julian & that bit of land up there on the river
Bright days here & sharp, with ice boating in the river.
Kittermaster, and myself went thirty miles down the St Clair river on a steamboat taking with us a sailboat
Whitman's nurse] I have been carriaged across to Philadelphia (how sunny & fresh & good look'd the river
O'C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially—spent an hour down by the Delaware river
summarily, fairly jolly—go out now sometimes in a wheel chair, exceptionally for an hour or two to the river
days—weather cooler here—get out a little in propell'd wheel chair—was out last evening to sun set at river
Phila: to Gutekunsts' to sit for big picture (at vehement request)—went in large easy cab—every thing river
hearty massage at 1 & went in wheel chair soon after 2—quite a jaunt—went to the bank—went down to the river
side—sun, river & sky fine—sat 15 minutes in the Nov. sun—find my head & bodily strength pretty low
to-day (for the first since you sent)—am sitting here after my supper, & shall go out in wheel chair to river
Have heard nothing f'm Mrs: O'C at Wash'n—go down by the river most every day in the wheel chair & sit
all day & in the room—one of the watermen came to see me yesterday afternoon & told me all ab't the river
—I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river shore as secluded as I c'd find & staid over
pretty warm—was out last evening (sunset) two hours down to the Delaware shore, high water)—sky & river
Already there is a shimmer of frozen rivers in the distance, a ripple of soft reverberations from vanished
Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker
They call the Missouri river terraces "benches" out there she says.