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Walt Whitman to Harry Buxton Forman, 16 June 1890

  • Date: June 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Celebrities" pamphlet rec'd safely with thanks— I am keeping on fairly—have been out in wheel chair to the river

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 25 May 1890
  • Creator(s): Foster Coates and Homer Fort | Foster Coates | Homer Fort
Text:

It is all in strange contrast to the bustle of the great Quaker City across the river.

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

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

Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

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.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 December 1889

  • Date: December 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12 November 1889

  • Date: November 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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.

He Is Ignored at Home

  • Date: 13 October 1889
  • Creator(s): J. W. K.
Text:

Walt lives across the river in a quiet old town, just opposite this city.

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Indeed, one of the very first things he did on his arrival here on Friday was to go over the river and

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 28 August 1889

  • Date: August 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

days—weather cooler here—get out a little in propell'd wheel chair—was out last evening to sun set at river

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 8 August 1889

  • Date: August 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Phila: to Gutekunsts' to sit for big picture (at vehement request)—went in large easy cab—every thing river

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 20 July 1889

  • Date: July 20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O'C (I fear by accounts) is left with very little financially—spent an hour down by the Delaware river

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 July 1889

  • Date: July 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to-day (for the first since you sent)—am sitting here after my supper, & shall go out in wheel chair to river

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 June 1889

  • Date: June 23, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Have heard nothing f'm Mrs: O'C at Wash'n—go down by the river most every day in the wheel chair & sit

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, [17 June] 1889

  • Date: [June 17], 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 13 May 1889

  • Date: May 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 8 March 1889

  • Date: March 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all day & in the room—one of the watermen came to see me yesterday afternoon & told me all ab't the river

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1889

  • Date: March 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

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

Walt Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 19 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Harrison, W.
Text:

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

Whitman's Complete Works

  • Date: 3 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Baxter, Sylvester
Text:

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

Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1889

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Gutekunst, Frederick
Text:

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

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1888

  • Date: December 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 20 November 1888

  • Date: November 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1888

  • Date: October 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

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

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's November

  • Date: 27 August 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 25 April 1888

  • Date: April 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1888

  • Date: February 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

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.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 January 1888

  • Date: January 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

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

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

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.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 11 December 1887

  • Date: December 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

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

Alex H. Smith to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1887

  • Date: September 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Alex H. Smith
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 29 April [1887]

  • Date: April 29, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman's Poetry

  • Date: 9 October 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 July 1886
  • Creator(s): F. B. S.
Text:

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

Talks with Noted Men

  • Date: 12 June 1886
  • Creator(s): W. H. B.
Text:

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

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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.

Last of ebb

  • Date: 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1885

  • Date: July 21, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith, 20 July 1885

  • Date: July 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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

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

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