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—I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river shore as secluded as I c'd find & staid over

office, seated by the same old open window, where I can look out & have a splendid view of the Potomac river

Parker's family —I am writing this by my window in the office—it is a fine view, ten miles of river,

view of great expanse, & very comforting every way—also a pleasant breeze coming in steadily from the river

in office—as I look out it is dark & cloudy with a chill rain, but the grass is green & I see the river

& secluded here—all winter too, the snow white & deep in every direction—as I look from my window, river

families, start out on excursions to the country, or on some of the steamboat trips up the North or East Rivers

Banvard departed yesterday for Europe, with his panoramas of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers

We have panoramic views, now, of nearly all the principal rivers of the country.

.—28th & 29th slowly up the White River valley, a captivating wild region, by Vermont Central R.R. &

—have jaunted over 3000 miles mostly river & Lakes—(I believe I sent you a couple of my current letters

country is beautiful now—I take a walk on Broadway almost every afternoon—then sometimes a sail on the river

Lakes of the Thousand Islands St Lawrence River Aug 1 I am here in a handsome little steam yacht (owned

1000 sq miles) on earth—I am pretty well—go to Montreal Tuesday—then to Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—back

journey—every thing to interest me—the constantly changing but ever beautiful panorama on both sides of the river

all the way for nearly 100 miles here—the magnificent north river bay part of the shores of —the high

handsome villages & cities—the prevailing green—the great mountain sides of brown & blue rocks—the river

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.

I have been up by the window looking out on the river & scenery—it is beautiful weather now—they have

Pleasant September days & nights here—I have just been out for an hour on the river—now, 2 p. m., sitting

the pale, green leaves of the trees prolific, In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river

The Delaware River, which must be crossed to get there, is invariably covered with oil which diffuses

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

As the medical historian Howard Markel observes, “the river of human pathology at Bellevue had no end

their tiny leaves . . . without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

in the woods or by the road-side (hundreds, thousands, obliterated)— the corpses floated down the rivers

the diaspora of “the strayed dead” whose unburied bodies littered battlefields and became lost to rivers

I have never lived away from a big river." Took up Brinton's suggestion that W.'

a river, the sky the sky.

—first to Bonsall's house for the Book Maker—then across the river for conferences at different places

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

I mailed it over the river later on.

How had the river appeared?—and so on.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

Denver is phenomenal for its background—its ample background: not much of a river there, but a river

And I know best of all the rivers—the grand, sweeping, curving, gently undulating rivers. Oh!

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

but grand and manly and full of thunder and lightning.The robins are just here, and the ice on the river

Parkhurst across the river, has studied Millet some and lectures about him, illustrating the talks.

magazines—that of porcelain, fine china, dainty curtains, exquisite rugs—never a look of flowing rivers

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

Some one in that discussion over the river presented my 'standpoint'—but suppose I have no conscious

It is fine scenery around Washington—plenty of hills, and a noble river.

but two things now from which I derive any satisfaction—Julian and that bit of land up there on the river

It was a tablet placed on the First Unitarian Church, across the river. There were speeches by C.C.

country through which the Continental Road passes in the States, (then names,) the fauna, mountains, rivers

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

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

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

He still lives in Mickle Street, Camden, in his little old wooden house, not far from the Delaware river

Who could share with me the thought of that evening's ride across the river?

Went over the river with Donaldson, who had brought W. fruit and wine and taken away with him the ten

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

envy you—or at least count you happy—in your own house, and with your farm, in sight, or close to a river

I described the trip across the river this evening: the new moon— "a thin semicircular strip of a thing

of slender cloud overhead: the water full of mobile reflections: the electric lights up along the river's

The electric lights are new since my time: there were never any along the river's front as I knew it.

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

know him—know his name, too: he rejoices in the unique and saving name—though the best hand on the river—the

I took it with me to mail over the river.

on one of the long piers, or take the ferry boat, and watch her as she swept around into the East River

or, why does the flowing river make me happy?—why? why? making that mood the talisman for all?"

From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills and fields of Virginia

It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

I mailed it over the river later on.

family has to expect things of me: we are simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers

came crushed, low spirited, despondent—thinking to go into the War—like a fellow jumping into the river

We talked of the river: how the river is on days like this: W. interrogating.

"And the way down and down—and then the river, too!" His manner rather pensive, if not sad.

I used to count him one of my best friends on the river."

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

it is good to be with the river—good: the river mends us: is good for many things more than one thing

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

"We sat by the river for a long time.

Had been down to the river.

Had only limited time for getting across the river to the train. Sunday, May 5, 1889

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