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Friday, June 27, 1890

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

Just the other day he was complaining of the restrictions against bathing along the river front, and

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

Vocalism.

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

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Vocalism.

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

friendship, procrea- tion procreation , prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 14 June 1864

  • Date: June 14, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

home for a week or fortnight for a change—the rumor is very strong here that Grant is over the James river

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.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 16 May 1864

  • Date: May 16, 1864
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

I dont know what the battle is called but it was about 5 miles from Germania Ford on the Rapidan River

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

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

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 (

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 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 Abby H. Price, 10 December 1866

  • Date: December 10, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Parker's family —I am writing this by my window in the office—it is a fine view, ten miles of river,

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 27 November 1875
  • Creator(s): Moncure D. Conway
Text:

Camden is reached by a ferry crossing the Delaware River from this city, and, but for being in a different

It so happened that when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river

Saturday, July 5, 1890

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

Had been down to the river.

is a thing built, not a current flowing: his is a structure, grown story by story: yours a limpid river

Swill Milk

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the children than in any similar district in the city of New York or Brooklyn where milk from the river

exposed to heat, and a churning-jolting for twenty-four or thirty-six hours (as the milk from the river

Johnston, John H. (1837–1919) and Alma Calder

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

During August 1881, Whitman stayed with the Johnstons at their summer home at Mott Haven on the Harlem River

How gladly we leave the

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

from stores and offices even the best of what is called intellectual society to sail all day on the river

Chants Democratic and Native American 12

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

years—after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, After treading ground and breasting river

Walt Whitman to Thomas Dixon, 30 June 1870

  • Date: June 30, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills & fields of Virginia,

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

Walt Whitman to George and Susan Stafford, 14 February 1884

  • Date: February 14, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

heard from Deb —I hope she is all right—Well, bad as the weather is, I must up & go out & across the river

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1884

  • Date: January 8, 1884
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Winter is in full blush up here & the river snores & groans like an uneasy sleeper.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6–8 September 1889

  • Date: September 6–8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

day—these middle hours—not well—lying down a good deal—bowel action yesterday— y'rs rec'd —out to river

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, [29]–30 June [1889]

  • Date: June [29]–30, [1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

caving in feeling generally)—this is the third day—Still I get out in the wheel chair —was out to the river

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 25 April 1874

  • Date: April 25, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

left Washington, & has settled on a little farm with horse, cows, & fowls on the banks of the Hudson river

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 29 September 1890

  • Date: September 29, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—John Burroughs has just been to see me—He, wife & boy still on their Hudson river farm— Best respects

John M. Binckley to Lyman Trumbull, 12 December 1867

  • Date: December 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

If this is all, the Attorney General thinks that an Act simply declaring that the words high seas, river

John M. Binckley to Gideon Welles, 25 April 1868

  • Date: April 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Resolution was approved authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island on the Delaware River

Wednesday, June 18, 1890

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

When I asked him if he was on his way home—he said laughing—"I am on my way to the river—which is as

Wednesday, March 5, 1890

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

electric had become the general light in Philadelphia and "wondering if the lights along the bank of the river—up

Smiling

  • Date: 4 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Striker's Bay was a large mansion-house along the Hudson River on what is now Manhattan's Upper West

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 21–23 June 1871

  • Date: June 21–23, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

doing nothing, spending a great deal of time with my mother, & going out a few hours every day on the river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 February [1874]

  • Date: February 6, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

half mile or so to the ferry—the Delaware here is full three quarters of a mile wide—it is a noble river

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [16 January 1874]

  • Date: January 16, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

can be—the ground is white with snow in all directions, it is not melting anywhere—as I crossed the river

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 26 January 1884

  • Date: January 26, 1884
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Cold here, with the river whooping at night like a colossal Indian, or is it more like the explosions

Walt Whitman to George and Susan Stafford, 20 June [1880]

  • Date: June 20, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Carpenter's address is 45 Brunswick Square, Brighton England—The waters here Lake Huron & St Clair river

Jennie Wren to Walt Whitman, 19 March 1891

  • Date: March 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): Jennie Wren
Text:

trust you have enjoyed these three days of sunshine and that you have been able to go down to 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

Fred B. Vaughan to Walt Whitman, [1872]

  • Date: [1872]
  • Creator(s): Fred B. Vaughan
Text:

He has now gone below I Suppose to his dinner— On the opposite side of the river WmsBgh.

The Public Lands

  • Date: 25 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter’s River way to the Missouri, every “extra claim” is taken up.

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 21 September 1867

  • Date: September 21, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

times—they have done their work, & now they are to me as a tale that is told—Only the majestic & moving river

Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 30 January 1883

  • Date: January 30, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. once in a while, which I suppose you get—I came over to-night through the thick ice, filling the river—one

Letter from Washington

  • Date: 4 October 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The city of the wide Potomac, the queenly river, lined with softest, greenest hills and uplands.

There is no place in the city, or for miles and miles off, or down or up the river, but what you see

Sometimes from the river, coming up through Seventh-street, you see a long, long string of them, slowly

But this city, even in the crude state it is to-day, with its buildings of to-day, with its ample river

the California, Idaho and Colorado regions (two-thirds of our territory lies west of the Mississippi River

Biography of Richard Maurice Bucke

  • Date: 1998
  • Creator(s): Howard Nelson
Text:

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

Bucke, Richard Maurice

  • Creator(s): Nelson, Howard
Text:

In Philadelphia on professional business, Bucke crossed the river to Camden and looked the poet up.

Lawrence River, and the following year, in preparation for the biography, they visited places important

Salut Au Monde!

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

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl, I see where the Seine flows, and

blown with you you winds; You waters I have finger'd every shore with you, I have run through what any river

Salut Au Monde!

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

What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see the Amazon and the Paraguay, I see the four great rivers

of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl, I see where the Seine flows, and

blown with you you winds; You waters I have finger'd every shore with you, I have run through what any river

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
Text:

charter in these words: "to prevent divers persons from transporting themselves and goods over the river

Now what right had a colonial governor or any body else to prevent any person from crossing the river

The East River is, and always has been a public highway, and it never was in the power of any man or

two hundred feet in width, without the least obstruction to the navigation of the river.

The East River, at the foot of Fulton street, is 2193 feet wide, being nearly half a mile.

St. Louis, Missouri

  • Creator(s): McWilliams, Jim
Text:

Louis in 1764 to be a focal point for French trade on the Mississippi River.

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