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working expedition(my brotheJeffwith me) throughallthe Middle States,nd down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers

Or crossing the half or half the East River, the day night in the pilot-houses of Brooklyn ferry-boats

Outside of work hours he occupied himself observing Southern life,people, the river,with itsmiles of

At all times he was keenly inquisitive m matters that belonged tothe river or boat.

There had been a good deal of rain,the river was high, and the fallfiner than usual.

Winter is in full blush up here & the river snores & groans like an uneasy sleeper.

well as usual—A severe winter here—have had fine sleigh-rides, & enjoyed them—or some days on the river

Cold here, with the river whooping at night like a colossal Indian, or is it more like the explosions

heard from Deb —I hope she is all right—Well, bad as the weather is, I must up & go out & across the river

The manuscript has the cancelled title At the Mouth of the River.

hard: The landscape is truly enshrouding a white country, snow enveloped , hill, valley, lake and 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

hope you have been able to wend to and fro daily on the great ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river

eyes roamed in an absent way among the stars that twinkled alike in the sky and on Philadelphia's river

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

Camden is a prosperous city of some fifty thousand souls, situated on the left bank of the Delaware river

As I write it is a delightful day—temperature perfect—I take the car to the ferry, & get out on the river

"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

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

how you would too, sort of human Delaware river. With best love Herbert H Gilchrist.

last 2 11 At the Mouth of the River Last of the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward

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.

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

the unprepossessing city of Camden on the banks of the Delaware,—a city which serves as an over the river

attractive appearance used to catch the attention of crowds afternoons on Chestnut street across the river

Whitman became acquainted with most all of the younger generation of literary men across the river in

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the

Drove down yesterday four miles to "Billy Thompson's," on the Delaware river edge, to a nice dinner,

have you also in our assocn association The idea of a great brotherhood—a kingdom, not confined by rivers

and follow it for two or three miles as it passes B—that is except at the points at the mouth of the river

Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great

that in the summer it is terribly offensive to those who live along the edge of the river I shall be

After all, the sunny, fertile, plain for me, with gentle hills around, with a woody deep, calm river

Seven weeks have glided by as swiftly and noiselesslyas a river through sunshine, not through shade.

And how does the River look?

But the New England valley has one advantage over theweald of Sussex in itsbroad and beautiful river,

with Indian name, Connecticut Quon- — nektacut, the long river— which winds through it.

wooding at night—the 20 deck hands at work briskly as bees—in going up the river the flat-boat loaded

—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep

—The house itself stands on the Palisades of the Hudson, about 500 feet or so above the river on a steep

A steady snow fall here to-day, the river a white plain.

JOHNS RIVER, FLA. HOTEL SAN MARCO, AINSLIE & McGILVRAY. Managers. DOGS NOT ALLOWED IN THE HOTELS.

three or four miles to Gloucester, on the Delaware below here, to a fine old public house close to the river

the great boat, 20 black men rowing rhythmically, paying out the big seine—making a circuit in the river

To-day promises to be even more memorable, I expect to start up the Hudson River by the Mary Powell (

unless his friends are his companions, and of late months rarely sees the casual visitors who cross the river

was on a clear, bright, sunny day in the month of September that I crossed by the ferry the Delaware river

I row on the river every afternoon, all the men in the college who do not know how to row in the right

nearly altogether physically wreck'd (paralysis &c)—am living here in my little shanty by the Delaware river—Best

sauntering home, red glare in the sky in the direction of Grosvenor Road, but on the opposite side of the river

The effect of the red glare on the water, with the black barges shooting by, & the river fire-engine's

The river is almost at the back-door, or at any rate only a short street away; so that I have the ferries

in the chimney, & the wood of which I cut & hauled up the hill myself, out of the window on to the river

Whitman's nurse] I have been carriaged across to Philadelphia (how sunny & fresh & good look'd the river

Whitman passing his last years across the river from the great Quaker City, always using the quaint Quaker

Already there is a shimmer of frozen rivers in the distance, a ripple of soft reverberations from vanished

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.

Westminster to Waterloo Bridges this afternoon with the tide—higher than usual—just at the full; the river

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

Kittermaster, and myself went thirty miles down the St Clair river on a steamboat taking with us a sailboat

summarily, fairly jolly—go out now sometimes in a wheel chair, exceptionally for an hour or two to the river

pretty warm—was out last evening (sunset) two hours down to the Delaware shore, high water)—sky & 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