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“Our Best Society”

  • Date: 25 June 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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city like this, partaking as it does of the metropolitan character of our great neighbor over the river

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
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even take one in my hand, without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

Evok- ing the chaotic scene of the night battle on the river as the “shock of ships”colliding amid the

,The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, and contrasted with his youthful journey back up the Ohio River

“Our rival Roses warred for Sway— / For Sway, but named the name of Right” in “The Battle of Stone River

Soldiers become an “Abrahamic river” in “The Muster,” the flashes of bayonets are northern lights in

“Washington Letter Writers”

  • Date: 16 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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To set down and write to the “Roaring River Republican” a complete exposure of the disgraceful motives

The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Bibliography of Copies

Text:

Pasted on p. 19, newspaper article titled "Bathing in River Stopped Running of Mr. Ball's Mill."

1861.

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

descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

1861

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river

; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chattanooga on the mountain top, Saw I

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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ages, the inextricable, the river-tied and the mountain-tied.

About Children

  • Date: 16 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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One is the drying up of a clear transparent brooklet; and one the quenching of a river, more extensive

About the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

Daily Times in 1848, a local newspaper for residents of the town of Williamsburgh, along the East River

About "The Love of the Four Students: A Chronicle of New York"

  • Date: 2015
  • Creator(s): Stephanie Blalock
Text:

Ten days later, on December 19, 1843, it appeared in the Hudson River Chronicle (Sing-Sing, NY), and

A Chronicle of New-York," The Hudson River Chronicle , December 19, 1843, [1]; "The Love of the Four

Abraham Simpson & Co. to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1867

  • Date: August 1, 1867
  • Creator(s): Abraham Simpson & Co.
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Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Missouri, and the Mississippi River

Nashville, and the Mississippi River. II.—SECULAR SONGS. III.—WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC.

Advice to Strangers

  • Date: 23 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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about the same from the principal steamboat landings—Peck Slip and Piers No. 4, and thereabouts, North River

; about three quarters of a mile to the Hudson River Railroad station at Chambers Street, corner College

Africa (The Equator

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Red Mts Madagascar R Cape of Good Hope (8550 miles from New York Rivers—in Africa the Niger 2300 miles

Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River

Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile Senegal , 900 miles, emptying into the Atlantic through Senegambia Orange River

exhalations cities, ignorance, enti altogether unenlightened and unexplored Fellahtas, on the Niger river

Africa—Mungo Park—The Landers—Livingston

  • Date: 25 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Its population and its productions, its mountians and its rivers have been shrouded in fable.

Those claiming to know, formerly asserted that many a noble river, unable to reach the great natural

genial tropical clime; he fell in with the Niger, of the Joliba, as the natives called this magnificent river

the great desert, and west of the island Mozambique, which, like our own Minnesota, gives rise to rivers

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
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Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!

As the medical historian Howard Markel observes, “the river of human pathology at Bellevue had no end

their tiny leaves . . . without the actual army sights and hot emotions of the time rushing like a river

in the woods or by the road-side (hundreds, thousands, obliterated)— the corpses floated down the rivers

the diaspora of “the strayed dead” whose unburied bodies littered battlefields and became lost to rivers

Alex H. Smith to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1887

  • Date: September 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Alex H. Smith
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have you also in our assocn association The idea of a great brotherhood—a kingdom, not confined by rivers

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Then was the time when it was his passion to sail the East River to and fro in the ferry boats, "often

Or again (p. 132): It was a happy thought to build the Hudson river railroad right along the shore.

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

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

American Money Gone A Wool Cultivating

  • Date: 2 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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What has become confessedly needed over the wild and unknown regions that lie between the Missouri river

nobody travels, far below the great lines of travel—and thence run through the dreary deserts of Red River

as this of the Overland Mail, ought to have been Independence, (latitude 40 degrees,) on the Kansas river

American Poets Part 2

  • Date: July 1874
  • Creator(s): Earle, John Charles
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accordance with this view, James Russell Lowell has declined from the higher walks of poetry—from rivers

American Primer, An (1904)

  • Creator(s): Dressman, Michael R.
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He disapproves of borrowed, European names for American cities, states, rivers, or mountains, and he

[Among the embellished periodicals]

  • Date: 17 March 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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proprietors of the Pictorial World, to the best artist picturing 'the baptism of Christ, by immersion in the river

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 13 February 1871

  • Date: February 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Dec. 27, 1870, and is an official bond of Spear as special agent for the Sioux Indians at Cheyenne River

Amos T. Akerman to Columbus Delano, 4 April 1871

  • Date: April 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted

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

  • Date: December 16, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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contract contains a lease from said Ordway to the United States, of his quarries known as the "James River

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 11 September 1871

  • Date: September 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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As the occurrence appears to have taken place in the river close to the dock at Liverpool, it is probable

Amos T. Akerman to L. P. Poland, 29 March 1871

  • Date: March 29, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Anderson, the principal surveyor in the District of Ohio, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers,

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

  • Date: February 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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navigable waters of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the deposition of dredged material from Chicago river

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

  • Date: January 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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has been directed to appear for the defence of the Engineer Officers having charge of the Potomac River

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

  • Date: December 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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the injunction suit to restrain the Government from prosecuting its work at Hallett's Point, East River

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1873

  • Date: August 12, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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Even the sluggish little river Colne one cannot find fault with, it nourishes such a luxuriant border

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1879

  • Date: August 2, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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built soon after the Norman conquest, is in sight, crowning a wooded hill that rises abruptly from the river-side

You would not dignify the Weir with the name of a river in America—it is no bigger than Timber Creek—but

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1878

  • Date: October 25, 1878
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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We are rowed on the beautiful river every day that it is warm enough—a very winding river not much broader

They lead an easy-going life here—seem to spend half their time floating about on the river—or meeting

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1885

  • Date: February 27, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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hope you have been able to wend to and fro daily on the great ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1879

  • Date: January 5, 1879
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Have had some beautiful glimpses of the North & East River effects of the shipping at sunset, &c.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 8 May 1882

  • Date: May 8, 1882
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
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As for me, my heart is already gone over to the other side of the river, so that sometimes I feel a kind

Arnold and Walt Whitman

  • Date: 26 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Indeed, one of the very first things he did on his arrival here on Friday was to go over the river and

Arrow-Tip

  • Date: March 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to

The house of P ETER B ROWN was situated at one end of the village, near the river, in a pleasant place

He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river, where they

The child, then quite small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and A RROW -T IP had dashed into

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens toward the river,

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore.

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

merits demerits , Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore

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

and demerits, Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him, Making its rivers

of families, I have read these leaves to myself in the open air—I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers

[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

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

Bathing

  • Date: 27 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Every morning and evening the East and North Rivers ought to show not hundreds but thousands and tens

Baths

  • Date: 16 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Weimer, in the East River, should teach those who desire to bathe, but cannot swim, the propriety of

shilling, why then, sooner than abstain from bathing, you may run the risk of being drowned in the River—there

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

Bethuel Smith to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1864

  • Date: February 28, 1864
  • Creator(s): Bethuel Smith
Text:

Culpeper again I wish you would come & see me our Camp is 4 miles up the railroad toward the rapidan river

Biographies

  • Creator(s): Loving, Jerome
Text:

before Asselineau and Allen were written by a renowned man of American letters and the author of Spoon 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

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