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John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, [18 July] 1875

  • Date: [July 18], 1875
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

The ridge runs parallel with the big river and ally divides our valley into a sandstone sub valley nex

broad but low Sand mountain; and a sub valley lime land next the river.

mostly stopped erge d a er growth young hickories are no vi suggestion of the presence of the great river

A mountain range north of the river coming right in front of me for two or three miles close to the river

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1871

  • Date: February 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

write another we have had very cold weather here this Winter and there is a great deal of Ice in the river

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1871

  • Date: June 1, 1871
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

yesterday we had a very hard thunder storm and it done a great deal of dammage damage along the North River

John M. Binckley to Theodore Phillips, 16 June 1868

  • Date: June 16, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

communication of the 11th instant, relative to a tract of land remaining unappropriated upon the Mississippi River

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 12 December 1867

  • Date: December 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

If this is all, the Attorney General thinks that an Act simply declaring that the words high seas, river

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Brightley's Digest, 207, provides that if "any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river

be construed as equivalent to "District of Columbia," should a murder be committed on the Potomac river

John M. Binckley to Gideon Welles, 25 April 1868

  • Date: April 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Resolution was approved authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island on the Delaware River

John M. Binckley to A. Fahnestock, 6 August 1867

  • Date: August 6, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

acquired by the United States for the purpose of establishing Range Lights near the mouth of the Maumee River

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1863

  • Date: June 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

is very low i dont think that he will live but 3 or foar days wee think we will cros the Cumbrlen river

John J. Barker to Walt Whitman, 19 June 1863

  • Date: June 19, 1863
  • Creator(s): John J. Barker
Text:

home twice since i roat to you i cudent stay long for the rebels pickets was in site just acrous the river

millsprings our boys are all in good sirrets and egger to fight since rot to you wee went acrous the river

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1884

  • Date: January 8, 1884
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 29 December 1879

  • Date: December 29, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

We have had a touch of winter here, & the river is frozen over, but to-day it is thawing again.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1878

  • Date: February 28, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The unsafe condition of the ice in the River will prevent me going to N.Y.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 26 January 1884

  • Date: January 26, 1884
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 24 August 1879

  • Date: August 24, 1879
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 23 December 1888

  • Date: December 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1889

  • Date: February 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | John Burroughs
Text:

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.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1873

  • Date: June 2, 1873
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I. to look at a place for sale, Yaphank on Carmans River. Do you know the country out there?

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1881

  • Date: March 14, 1881
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

The robins are just here, & the ice on the river is moving this afternoon, bag & baggage.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 13 January 1888

  • Date: January 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

Jennie Wren to Walt Whitman, 19 March 1891

  • Date: March 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): Jennie Wren
Text:

trust you have enjoyed these three days of sunshine and that you have been able to go down to the river

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1891

  • Date: October 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

beautiful & luxuriously fitted steamboat was itself extremely interesting to begin with—Then the noble river

with cirrus clouds glowing warm golden on the underside, delicate pearl above—the reflections in the river

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1891

  • Date: October 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

been beautiful & I have enjoyed the ride very much indeed—especially down the lovely valley of Mohawk River

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1891

  • Date: October 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

I propose to leave here on Tuesday morning for New York via Kingston, Albany, & the Hudson River.

James Grant Wilson to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1890

  • Date: July 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): James Grant Wilson
Text:

Lawrence River, J. W.

J. Hubley Ashton to Watterson & Crawford, 24 October 1866

  • Date: October 24, 1866
  • Creator(s): J. Hubley Ashton | Walt Whitman
Text:

sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats & other river

IV.—Broadway

  • Date: 9 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

craned forward and tow-colored hair, stare and stumble; perhaps there is a bustle, like an eddy in a river

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) reigned in River Plate literature

" (from "Salut Au Monde"), and again, later in the same poem, "I see the Amazon and the Paraguay [rivers

]" to "I see the Amazon, the Paraguay, the River Plate" ( , 359).

Twenty-eight youths bathe in the river.

Land of rays and shadows, peppering Literally, snowing upon. the river waves!

Introduction to the 1855 Leaves of Grass Variorum

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

The headline reads: "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr.

Introduction to Álvaro Armando Vasseur, Preface to the Sixth Edition of Walt Whitman: Poemas

  • Creator(s): Rachel Price | Matt Cohen
Text:

At the turn of the century neo-Romanticism and criollismo (local color) had reigned in River Plate literature

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
Text:

About this time Walt introduced his brother to Italian opera and frequently took him across the East River

Water Works, a progressive system of deriving municipal water supplies from artesian wells instead of rivers

probably Flad who, as a member of the Board of Water Commissioners, invited Jeff on a Mississippi River

had recommended that the new waterworks be located at the Chain of Rocks, a site on the Mississippi River

Furthermore, river water was becoming inreasingly polluted with city sewage, causing periodic outbreaks

Into the Country

  • Date: 19 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

file of the people who don't live in brown stone fronts and are glad to get a couple of weeks "up the river

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

Big Rivers My own favorite loafing places have always been the rivers, the wharves, the boats—I like sailors

I have never lived away from a big river.

and of achieving a view of the Delaware River below.

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

there, but a river that does.

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

The first, 1848-49: To Louisiana, the “great river,” New Orleans and the “magnet south” and on the way

equated to “From Pent-up Aching Rivers.”

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

In the specific case of art, we have also seen how he loves to compare his songs to a plant, a river,

and Nights” (117), “Hudson River Sights,” “Departing of the Big Steamers” (p. 125), and “Only a New

Internet, Whitman on the

  • Creator(s): Kummings, Donald D.
Text:

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997.Fineberg, Gail.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Internet, Whitman on the

Individualism

  • Creator(s): Duggar, Margaret H.
Text:

through regenerative participation in the comradeship of the twenty-eight young men afloat in the rivers

In RE Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman at Date

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

base-ball, or breathe in drowsily— "for reasons," he would say—the refreshing air; or he is guided to the river

In RE Walt Whitman: Round Table with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

But before I sit down let me say I brought with me the regrets of some friends over the river—especially

Donaldson .— And I brought with me from an old gentleman on the Allegheny river a bottle of whiskey which

Stedman .— "Life, after all, is not like a river—although it is the fashion to say that it is—for that

And Whitman's poetry is like the river: nothing of it more tranquil, nothing broader and deeper, than

We think of you at Concord as often as we look out over the meadows across the river, which you were

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad, every river

The mountains, rivers, forests, and the elements that gird them round about, would be only blank conditions

The former may be as fair or fairer to see; but, as "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose

'I Sing the Body Electric' [1855]

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

mysteries of identity in "Song of Myself," of childhood in "There Was a Child Went Forth," of the rivers

I Sing the Body Electric

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

I Sing the Body Electric.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body, The circling rivers

I know a rich capitalist

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A coffin swimming buoyantly on the swift flowing current of the river Yes I believe in the Trinity,—God

and sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers

I am a curse

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and

opples and ball at ancles ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river

Hudson River

  • Creator(s): Faries, Nathan C.
Text:

Nathan C.FariesHudson RiverHudson RiverDespite its modest 315-mile length, the Hudson River is famous

In 1848 he traveled to and from a short-lived newspaper job in New Orleans via the Hudson River, the

In these the river is listed alongside the Mississippi, Paumanok Sound, and the alien Thames.

The Hudson River and Its Painters. New York: Viking, 1972.Whitman, Walt.

Hudson River

How would it do

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Connecticut large manufactures of clocks, cotton goods, and gutta‑percha, shad fishery of Connecticut river

Maryland Alleghany Mts Cattskills Catskills Valley of the Mohawk Great lakes & small lakes, Susquehannah river

Bay." the falls of Niagara,— The amplitude, ease, and perfect proportions of the scenery— the broad river

Roanoke —500 length Savannah 600 miles Altamaha 500 Alabama 500 the sluggish rivers, flowing over the

White river the Arkansas river 1200 m —the beautiful valleys of the Arkansas and the Washita —a great

How gladly we leave the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river

Hot Weather Philosophy

  • Date: 2 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How soothing and sweet the evening souse in the river, or the swimming bath, or along the sea-shore!

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