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Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 10 April 1868

  • Date: April 10, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 17 March [1877]

  • Date: March 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 30 July 1848

  • Date: July 30, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 28 September 1848

  • Date: September 28, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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.

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 19 July [1872]

  • Date: July 19, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Torrey Harris, 28 September 1880

  • Date: September 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Andrew Kerr, 25 August 1866

  • Date: August 25, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 1 August [1880]

  • Date: August 1, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman, 22–26 June [1878]

  • Date: June 22–26, [1878]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [2 February 1873]

  • Date: February 2, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William J. Linton, 14 September [1875]

  • Date: September 14, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walter Godey to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1874

  • Date: June 1, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Godey
Text:

I passed a very pleasant day up the River Saturday—fishing—the day proved to be warm and after several

Whitman in the German-Speaking Countries

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig
Text:

Following the Ohio River along the newly settled states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, still

This river, which together with its tributaries supplies half of the arable land of the United States

contradicting any Zeitgeist, just like myself, I see the skyline of the large banks in Frankfurt on the river

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 16 November [1869]

  • Date: November 16, [1869]
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

raised after the Holidays father has just received Employment In the pipe yard foot of 24th St of East River

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1870

  • Date: February 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

East river.

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1875

  • Date: April 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

The East River bridge does not seem to be getting on very fast I believe the piers are not quite finished

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

Vorhees, and a train disaster known as the "Hudson River Horror."

The Genius of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 20 March 1880
  • Creator(s): White, W. Hale
Text:

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

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

full-blooded, six feet high, a good feeder, never once using medicine, drinking water only—a swimmer in the river

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 30 October 1881
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

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

Day come white, or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding

Whitman's New Book

  • Date: 15 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Sylvester Baxter
Text:

spent in the open air down in the country in the woods and fields, and by a secluded little New Jersey river

Starr'd Nights…Mulleins…A Sun-Bath—Nakedness…Human and Heroic New York…Hours for the Soul…Delaware River—Days

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

hereafter and to the latest ages, when Bull Run and Shiloh and Port Hudson, when Vicksburg and Stone River

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

poet describes the grand and terrible dalliance of two eagles, high shift in the bright air, abovea river

William E. Vandemark to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1863

  • Date: November 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): William E. Vandemark
Text:

he will get elected for he is a good union man— i am in the hospittle on davids island up the east river

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours per day, haunt the Delaware River most of the time, am a good liver, not a teetotaler

Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit

  • Date: 3 July 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
Text:

"I write three hours a day, haunt the Delaware river much of the time, am a good liver and not a teetotaler

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 31 March [1872]

  • Date: March 31, [1872]
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

directness of observation & purpose, by the painters: sometimes, instead of walking, we row up the river

The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric

  • Creator(s): William Pannapacker
Text:

Rivers) not included under "Disciples" (see below).

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Walt Whitman's domicile isa littleold-fashioned present frame house, situated about from the Delaware River

am sick.' "] April 27,'87. " " Drove down yesterday four miles to BillyThompson's on the Delaware river

I will send you (or word allI hear or get. of) I have been out to-day noon in wheel chair to the river

These stocks original tinge and saturate the billows of humanity through generations, as great rivers

Before the slow roll of the river of the majestic DRIFT AND CUMULUS. 123 come the toss and turbulence

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Rivers, and is published by Geo. Allen & Co., London.

He is a great river, which appears with its life blood diminished, but only be- cause itis irrigating

'(fand 76 From Pent-up Aching Rivers ...

W. describinghisSaguenay River tripwith Dr. Bucke, seesame forAug. 26, 1880.

Phelps, William Rivers, W. Lyon, loi. C, 119. Phillips, Le Roy, 16, note. Roberts, Harry, 253.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Lawrence River, which eh had seen during the past summer.

present domicile is a little old-fashioned frame house, situated about gun-shot from the Delaware River

acquaintance says:— "Whitman gets out of doors regularly in fair weather, much enjoys the Delaware River

from him that 'that miserable wretch, the mayor of this town, has forbidden the boys to bathe in the river

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1889

  • Date: October 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

They call the Missouri river terraces "benches" out there she says.

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: Thursday, October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Summers, M. P.
Text:

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

Whitman Noir: Black America & the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Wilson, Ivy G.
Text:

And, as Phillips illuminates in his essay, the function of the East River as thelocusclassicusinWhitman

(Whitman writes, “Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was

probes the menacing history of bondage evoked by the river’s continuity with times past: “But there’

But Komunyakaa’s river carries haunting, unsolicited memories his speaker would rather not remember:

The East River, a locus classicus of Whitman’s work, is recon- textualized in order to circumscribe a

Contradiction

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Malcolm Cowley saw the poet's ideas as pell-mell driftwood in a flooding river. D.H.

"Salut au Monde!"(1856)

  • Creator(s): Zapata-Whelan, Carol M.
Text:

Along with historical summaries and sky-view grids of railroads and rivers, he records the Cossack's

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

Text:

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

Last of ebb, and daylight waning

  • Date: 1885
Text:

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

Like Earth O river

Text:

Like Earth O river

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Text:

Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip

Swallows on the River

Text:

Swallows on the River

Union Union!

  • Date: undated
Text:

reading Old Time Gleanings with the subtitle Reminiscences, Gossip, Traditions, &c. of the Delaware river

Like Earth O River

  • Date: 1848
Text:

nyp.00106xxx.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten

relate to the poem eventually titled Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight.; nyp.00736 Like Earth O River

[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

  • Date: 1879–1882
Text:

145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published

Sept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wet

  • Date: about 1879
Text:

wind due eastSept. 3 '79—Cloudy and wetabout 1879prose2 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Swallows on the River

for Sparrows

  • Date: about 1882
Text:

the 22nd bookfor Sparrowsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

Sparrows—Swallows

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

kingSparrows—Swallowsabout 1880prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; Notes that contributed to Swallows on the River

Remembrances I plant American ground

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Europe

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

.00884xxx.00110MS 12mo 27EuropeBetween 1850 and 1856prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; A list of European rivers

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

  • Date: about 1885
Text:

1Fancies at Navesinkloc.04146xxx.00335[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']about 1885handwrittenpoetry1

[rivers', bays' and ocean shores']

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