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Me Imperturbe.

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

toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes- see Tennessee , or far north or inland, A river

For You O Democracy.

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

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

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 to Peter Doyle, 24 July [1880]

  • Date: July 24, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mrs B[ucke] (as human as I ever met, both)—Monday morning next I start on a long Lake & St Lawrence river

Wednesday, July 10, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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

He tried to name me one of the Western rivers—a Greek name—but it "failed" him.

Drainage—Report of the Engineer to the Commissioners

  • Date: 6 November 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

permeable land drains and sewers should be provided, to discharge into the natural water courses and rivers

That as outfalls are already provided by streams and rivers for the discharge of the natural waters,

provided, to discharge without intermission into the said artificial outfalls, independently of the rivers

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

Henry Stanbery to William Dorsheimer, 23 October 1867

  • Date: October 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

Lawrence River—but to what place I am not informed; but are supposed to be secreted in an Irish settlement

about five miles from the river.

Friday, June 13, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I urged him to go out and to the river, by all means—and he assenting—"as soon as it is a little cooler

He had been down to the river. I told him of Talcott Williams' note, saying he had a report of W.'

Monday, March 10, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Went into warm and fine discourse of "the grandeur of river sights—sounds: the waters, skies, the big

A Song

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

A Song.

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

comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2 I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers

A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine.

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

and hope continuing on the same, Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry; Of you, my Land—your rivers

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

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 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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to John A. Rawlins, 25 May 1869

  • Date: May 25, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

of the people of Coeyman's to sue out an injunction against the further prosecution of the Hudson 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

Benjamin Helm Bristow to Edward N. McCook, 26 September 1871

  • Date: September 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

President, of one Dorcas Mary Lavin, setting forth that her husband Nicholas Lavin, was murdered at River

Me Imperturbe.

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

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river

Me Imperturbe

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

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river-man

Frank Cowan to Walt Whitman, 17 February 1892

  • Date: February 17, 1892
  • Creator(s): Frank Cowan
Text:

, "I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Cobweb," —on this or the other side of the river

Walt Whitman to Bernard O'Dowd, 26 December 1890

  • Date: December 26, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

328 Mickle Street n'r Delaware river Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 26 '90 — Herewith are copies

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 26 August 1890

  • Date: August 26, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

little uneasy—Nothing very new or different with me—am pretty well & writing—get out doors & down to river

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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 July–2 August [1870]

  • Date: July 30–August 2, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The evenings here are delightful and I am always out in them, sometimes on the river, sometimes in New

I have been over to New York to-day on business—it is a pleasure even to cross the ferry—the river is

Silas S. Soule to Walt Whitman, Summer 1862

  • Date: Summer 1862
  • Creator(s): Silas S. Soule
Text:

Well here I am camped on a sand bank on the Rio Grande River the weather is hot and we have seen little

built houses for themselves some of mud some of willow and some have dug houses in the bank by the River

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 6 May 1864

  • Date: May 6, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

must have it in this morning that the Army of the Potomac has made a move, & has crossed the Rapidan river

that lies in the rear of the Army of the Potomac, (from Warrenton, Virginia, & so to Rappahannock river

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 25 February 1871

  • Date: February 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

navigable waters of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the deposition of dredged material from Chicago river

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted

Henry Stanbery to Gideon Welles, 26 September 1866

  • Date: September 26, 1866
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

abstract, & other papers submitted to me relative to the title of "Seavey's Island," in the Piscataqua River

Chants Democratic and Native American 18

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

subordinate;) Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland, A river-man

Walt Whitman to Beatrice Gilchrist, 21 February [1879]

  • Date: February 21, 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for me—To day is very clear, but cold & windy—I have been out some two hours enjoying it—cross'd the river—The

Walt Whitman to Robert Adams, 27 July 1890

  • Date: July 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Enclosed find circulars— Respectfully &c: Walt Whitman Whitman letter | written to | Robert Adams | Fall 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

Number VII

  • Date: 25 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

much thought of then; but the world will be just as jolly, and the sun will shine as bright, and the rivers

up town," towards the quieter and more fashionable quarters, and see great changes—but off to the rivers

You learn that, "The Aqueduct commences at the Croton river, five miles from the Hudson river, in Westchester

It crosses the Harlem river on a magnificent bridge of stone, 1,450 feet in length, with 14 piers, 7

The water is of the purest kind of river water.

W. A. Field to George S. Boutwell, 28 June 1870

  • Date: June 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

alias Trombley, from the Light House Reservation of the United States at the mouth of the Saginaw river

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 13 February 1871

  • Date: February 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Dec. 27, 1870, and is an official bond of Spear as special agent for the Sioux Indians at Cheyenne River

Old Fellows

  • Date: Around 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(how sunny and florid fresh and good look'd the river, the people, the vehicles, and Market and Arch

The dalliance of the eagles

  • Date: Late 1870s or 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

over and over falling, rolling turning , an pausing revolving circling, falling Over Abo Close to the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April [1874]

  • Date: April 16, [1874]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

[—]very acceptable[—]from John Burroughs last Saturday & Sunday—he has built a house on the Hudson river

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

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

The History of Long Island

  • Date: After 1842; 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Benjamin F. Thompson
Text:

This bay is an irregular sheet of water, into which the Peconic River discharges itself, expanding in

Long Island is bounded on the West party by the Narrows, partly by New-York Bay and the East River, and

Atlantic Ocean, including the islands called the North and South Brother, and Riker's Island in the East River

From the battery to the mouth of Harlaem River, 8 miles, the course is N. N.

At the bend, situated opposite Harlaem River, is the noted pass or strait called Hell Gate, which is

Camden, New Jersey

  • Creator(s): Sill, Geoffrey M.
Text:

Between 1681 and 1700, they settled on the eastern shore of the Delaware River across from Philadelphia

Several ferry companies provided transit across the river, William Cooper's giving the town its early

Many of these essays, such as "Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights," eloquently express the

in downtown Camden, finished in 1925, was named for Whitman, and a new bridge across the Delaware River

Our Old Feuillage.

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

unno- ticed unnoticed , Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers

returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse, On rivers

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Our Old Feuillage.

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

, The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river

unno- ticed unnoticed , Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering, On interior rivers

returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse, On rivers

there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River

Walt Whitman to Montgomery Stafford, 4 August 1880

  • Date: August 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

several days in "the Lakes of the Thousand Islands"—that is what they call a part of the St Lawrence river

Island or Old Jersey—but it is all fresh here)— —I am going on some 400 miles further—north east to the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9[–10] October [1873]

  • Date: October 9–10, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

day & night—he has settled up & sold out in Washington, & left—He is building a home on the Hudson river

—has 10 acres of land on west side of river.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walter Whitman, Sr. and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18(?)-28 February 1848

  • Date: February 18(?)-28, 1864
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Mother, you have no idea of the splendor and the comfort of these western river steam-boats.

We expect to get as far as Cairo to night on the Mississipi river.

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