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Saturday, December 29, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I took it with me to mail over the river.

Tuesday, January 1, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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on one of the long piers, or take the ferry boat, and watch her as she swept around into the East River

Wednesday, January 2, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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or, why does the flowing river make me happy?—why? why? making that mood the talisman for all?"

Wednesday, September 12th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills and fields of Virginia

Thursday, September 29th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It is almost a part of Philadelphia where I live on the opposite side of the Delaware river.

Thursday, October 11th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I mailed it over the river later on.

Sunday, January 13, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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family has to expect things of me: we are simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers

Saturday, January 19, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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came crushed, low spirited, despondent—thinking to go into the War—like a fellow jumping into the river

Sunday, January 20, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We talked of the river: how the river is on days like this: W. interrogating.

Tuesday, April 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"And the way down and down—and then the river, too!" His manner rather pensive, if not sad.

I used to count him one of my best friends on the river."

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 6)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The sky, the river, the sun—they are my curatives."

it is good to be with the river—good: the river mends us: is good for many things more than one thing

Had read "Concord River" and "Saturday" sketches.

"We sat by the river for a long time.

Had been down to the river.

Sunday, May 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had only limited time for getting across the river to the train. Sunday, May 5, 1889

Monday, May 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And the river! It was a "glory" to him—"the more suspicion of it."

Wednesday, May 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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How had the river appeared?—and so on.

Thursday, May 9, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then Ed can go right across the river and have it sent."

His thirst to see the river is great—spoke of it again.

Friday, May 10, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I had just crossed the river, which was aroused to fury, the dust horrible, the boat tipped clean to

Saturday, May 11, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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But when we got down the street, I had Ed go on, so that by going four or five blocks, we got to the river

of the experiment—"the green trees—to get out into the free air—to catch once more the sight of the river

Sunday, May 12, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I tried to get a position somewhere down there on Second Street that would put us right on the river,

"Did you know that O'Connor lived over the river in Philadelphia?

Tuesday, May 14, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We have had quite a jaunt down along the river.

"The river was there—the great city opposite.

He had observed how the Pennsylvania Railroad was extending its wharves out into the river.

Thursday, May 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We did not go to the river today—we went out—not towards the country—about the City Hall—in that direction

Saturday, May 25, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The vessel is down the river—English, with a crew of Hindus.

Wednesday, May 29, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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That river is a never-ending fascination to me.

Monday, June 3 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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It will be mostly a Camden clientele, anyhow, with, perhaps, a good palpable fringe from across the river

Tuesday, June 4, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "We did not go to the river today, but out towards the hospital—and had a good time."

Saturday, June 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He rides less in his chair now to the river—more out in the open, where the boys play ball, the game

Thursday, September 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I envy the man out-of-doors—the boatman in the river, the carter with his team, the farmer at his plough—the

Sunday, October 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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On pleasant days, however, he goes out in a wheel-chair, and passes considerable time on the river bank

Monday, October 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I got out yesterday—out and to the river. It was a rare treat."

Thursday, June 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said: "We have been down to the river again—and it was so fine!—so full!

Friday, June 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"We have come from the river again—were right down to the water's edge—lintered there a long time, breathing

suggestiveness of this beautiful evening—twilight—the trees across the way there—the clouded northern sky—the river

Saturday, June 22, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Said he had just come back from his trip—"I have been to the river again—my first love—and best!

Monday, June 24, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. wore his bright blue gown, and said: "I have just been out to my favorite companion—the river!

Wednesday, June 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Difficulty getting to river, on account of mud, it having rained very hard today.

Met somebody along the river line who asked him to go yachting.

Saturday, June 29, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"But in a little while we are going down to the river—Ed and I."

Sunday, June 30, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had been down to the river. I gave him my father's translation of the German article.

Monday, July 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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him we are still about as we were, weathering it out—not consciously retreating—getting off to the river

Friday, July 5, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He dwelt with eloquent voice upon the aspect of the river.

"The mere air this evening is a blessed thing to breathe in—but the river seemed rarely fine—I watched

Sunday, July 7, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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some comment on the beautiful day, we started off, and he was wheeled along in his chair towards the river

The day had "seized" him he said, "powerfully"—"this evening especially—and down by the river" but—"I

Monday, July 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Was very cordial tonight—had a good color—and said that he felt rather better—had been to the river,

Wednesday, July 10, 1889

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

Saturday, July 13, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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again: "The attempt to unite the life out in nature—the life of the woods, of the fields, of the rivers—with

Tuesday, July 16, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Expressed rejoicing at getting to the river. "It was a grand trip—a grand evening, too.

Thursday, April 18, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Of one of these, the America, I asked W., but he did not know it: "It must have been a North River boat—the

Monday, April 22, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Just the few minutes before, in crossing the river I had seen the Missouri being put into her wharf.

Monday, July 22, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. out on my arrival—had gone to the river between 6 and 7.

Wednesday, July 24, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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himself, saying like a child, bound to comfort himself with something—"It was very fine down at the river

Wednesday, July 31, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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described some old experiences in the mountains about Bushkill—the great vistas—particularly the rivers

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

the memories of rivers—the Hudson—the Ohio—the Mississippi!

The Hudson is quite another critter—the neatest, sweetest, most delicate, clearest, cleanest river in

Rivers! Oh the rivers!

Tuesday, August 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I asked him if he thought he would go to the river this night—the first absolutely clear afternoon for

Wednesday, August 7, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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of his weariness, had gone out a while yesterday—towards the City Hall, the outskirts, not to the river

Thursday, August 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. now just back from his trip to the river. Evening beautiful. Was out of doors in chair.

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