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Remembrances I plant American ground

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

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 August 1890

  • Date: August 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

usual (has been very hot here again) made my breakfast of bread and honey in the comb—was down to river

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

strange cement— not a field crop grows hence in the field, of north or south Not Nor moisture of the river

Thou West that gave'st him to us

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rear'dst him in on thy fresh & ample prairies, and on the breasts of thy great, fresh, musical flowing rivers

Walt Whitman to Robert Pearsall Smith, 20 June 1890

  • Date: June 20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

down hill)—we have had some very hot weather—just present just right cool enough—I get down to the river

American Feuillage.

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

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

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombig- bee Tombigbee , the Red River

Chants Democratic

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

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

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

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

American Feuillage

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

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

noticed, myriads unnoticed, Through Mannahatta's streets I walking, these things gathering; On interior rivers

planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse; On rivers

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

New Publications

  • Date: 7 February 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It is a narrative of the exploration of the Tributaries of the River La Plata and adjacent countries,

steamer "Water Witch" was placed under the command of the author, with instructions to explore the rivers

prosecution of his duty, Lieutenant Page made explorations which embrace an extent of 3600 miles of river

one at that and being separated even from this by the Cordilleras of the Andes, it is only be her rivers

Sunday, November 30, 1890

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

Met Coit at Broad Street Station—with him across river and to Whitman's this hour.

But W. demurred: "America—her clouds, her rivers, her woods—all her origin, purpose, ideals; let it be

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 5 November [1879]

  • Date: November 5, 1879
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all winter— The picture at the beginning of this letter is the St Louis bridge over the Mississippi river

—I often go down to the river, or across this bridge—it is one of my favorite sights—but the air of

Walt Whitman to Nathaniel Bloom, 5 September 1863

  • Date: September 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

this weather the rich & splendid environs of Washington are an unfailing fountain to me—go down the river

, but I wondered why you did not write—What comfort you must take out there in the country, by the river—I

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William T. Sherman, 13 October 1869

  • Date: October 13, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Cook, for rent of land at the mouth of Genessee river, New York.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 23 June 1885

  • Date: June 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As I write it is a delightful day—temperature perfect—I take the car to the ferry, & get out on the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 18 June [1872]

  • Date: June 18, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the day, but mornings & nights perfect—No moonlight walks out beyond Uniontown here—but I go on the river

Thomas B. Neat to Walt Whitman, 2 February 1864

  • Date: February 2, 1864
  • Creator(s): Thomas B. Neat
Text:

help us and We can Wipe the Cavalry if mead Will lookout for the infantry the rebs is coming over the river

Walt Whitman Home Again

  • Date: 7 January 1880
  • Creator(s): Anonymous | Walt Whitman?
Text:

objects of especial attention have been the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains and the Mississippi River

Common Council

  • Date: 15 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

authority certain streets have been closed, so as to cut off access on the part of the public to the river

Walt Whitman to Lewis Wraymond, [2 October (?) 1868]

  • Date: October 2, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He has been up the Hudson river this summer driving hotel coach. He is the same old Duffy.

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: January 4, 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the engineer was developed in the following extracts: "The Tide Canal, from Wallabout Bay, through River

The uncertainty with respect to the ultimate construction of this Canal in River street, will not affect

The grade of River street, at the intersection with Broadway or Division avenue, is 10 feet above high

It is proposed to construct this sewer 6 feet in diameter for its whole length along River street to

These, with a 4 feet brick sewer in Broadway, extending from Lynch street to River street, about 450

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

The Centenarian's Story.

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

forts appear again, the old hoop'd guns are mounted, I see the lines of rais'd earth stretching from river

I saw him at the river-side, Down by the ferry lit by torches, hastening the embarcation; My General

copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1891

  • Date: May 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

first swallows of this spring, darting high overhead or skimming the sunlit waters of the beautiful River

all the fun of the fair" I strolled along the banks of my beloved "Annan Water"—a really beauitiful river

This little river is associated with the happy days of my childhood & it was with a swelling heart that

Sunday, September 20, 1891

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

That is a beautiful country, both sides—Port Huron, Sarnia—the river between. The noble river!

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 7 July 1863

  • Date: July 7, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

go up to Georgetown, about two & a half miles up the Potomac, an old town—just opposite it in the river

warm, but has not cleared off yet—the trees look so well from where I am, & the Potomac—it is a noble river—I

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 6 May [1881]

  • Date: May 6, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

you & George down a couple of big fresh ones, such as I see them bringing in every haul, from the river—A

seemed to be much greater even than usual—well I took some three hours of it—then slowly across the river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13–17 August 1868

  • Date: August 13–August17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

present, I expect to stay on as usual— It is now about one o'clock—a cool breeze is blowing in from the river—Mother

comfortable hours by it, I shall be sorry enough when I leave it—I never get tired looking out, there is river

Amos T. Akerman to H. H. Wells, 16 December 1871

  • Date: December 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

contract contains a lease from said Ordway to the United States, of his quarries known as the "James River

New Orleans Picayune

  • Creator(s): Harris, Maverick Marvin
Text:

ideal locale for a newspaper, for the city flourished with trade going up and down the Mississippi River

Monday, March 31, 1890

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

But the levee at New Orleans—its own type—curious among river fronts—certainly in America."

Generalities

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

They exist in some numbers in the interminable forests of the Gambia river.

The most perfect wonders of

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The prairies, the lakes, rivers, forests , —all are Not distant caverns, volcanoes, cataracts, curious

The Sewerage of the Eastern District

  • Date: 18 January 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of Ann street, whence the sewage would be washed by the tide into Wallabout Bay instead of down the river

James Grant Wilson to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1890

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

Lawrence River, J. W.

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 20 March 1881

  • Date: March 20, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ohn] B[urroughs] is reading the proofs of new book Pepacton (the Indian name of a beautiful little river

Calvin H. Greene to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1891

  • Date: May 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Calvin H. Greene
Text:

I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, Stars, rivers.

You are borne on the tides of eager and Swift rivers, O boating on the rivers!

Otherways, there, atwixt the banks of the Arkansas, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Tombigbee, the Red River

running. hear the rush & roar of cataracts as they fall beneath the seven-hued arch, I see the Great River

Upon the plains west of the Spinal river—yet in my house of adobe.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

, manfully, and appositely expressed—and a filibuster-like daring running, like a strong, vigorous river

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 11 September 1871

  • Date: September 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

As the occurrence appears to have taken place in the river close to the dock at Liverpool, it is probable

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 28 December 1871

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the injunction suit to restrain the Government from prosecuting its work at Hallett's Point, East River

Saturday, June 29, 1889

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

"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
Text:

Had been down to the river. I gave him my father's translation of the German article.

Europe bounded

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

—Caspian sea, Ural river & mts (Asia) South Mediterranean Countries —Iceland, 60,000 —Norway, 1,328,000

Thoughts 2

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

journeying to live and sing there; Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river

[As we write]

  • Date: 3 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

lady trails her drooping drapery along the street which stretches like a line of light toward the 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

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

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

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1890

  • Date: October 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

streets fill up with students, the professors begin lecturing, the games & sports all begin, and 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.

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