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Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
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The child must have had a memory to remember her firstlesso— that of toddling from mother to nurse !

Babington, head the nurse, and we have also of Lying-in Hospital, so I feel sure all isbeing done for

That nurse, from allmy girlssay of her,seems tobe a most anxious painstaking woman.

— The nurse thinks that by next week Anne willbe quite up to her work. ...

Pray ask your 'nurse' and your 'sunshine' toaccept my love.

Biography of John Burroughs

  • Creator(s): Carmine Sarracino
Text:

Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left

Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
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together up-stairsby two capable policemen, were wheeled into the hall.Whitman's Canadian friend and nurse

His best yearshad been devoted to the sacred duty of nursing thesick and wounded soldiers in the army

The Carpenter

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
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"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

Days with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

Exclusiveness and war were the nurses of growing humanity's powers— of com- radeship,organised life,community

The Fight of a Book for the World

  • Date: 1926
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Walt said that Lowell, on his sick-bed, was bothered with nurses and doctors, and had said,"Can't you

Elizabeth Leavitt Keller was Whitman's last nurse, and is a writer about him.

words that he was led to disbelieve in Walt's kind-heartedness (think of that in the case of a war nurse

I giveto Warren Fritzinger (my nurse) $200. I order and direct that Mary O.

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (nurse), Longfellow and Whitman, false articlein Putnam's by, 99. story about

Friday, April 19, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

Friday, August 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Whitman fund—am trying to get a small monthly guarantee each from a group of people to pay for the nurse

He knows the nurse is put here by his friends. I have not explained anything to him in detail.

Friday, December 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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.: "Doctor says I ain't a good nurse." "In what respect?""In letting you go without the medicine.""

Friday, February 12, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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work here finished & completed,—but yet not so far removed from us after all.Glad that he has a good nurse

Friday, February 19, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

Friday, February 5, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He is watched day and night by nurses who never quit him together; and his young friend Mr.

Friday, January 1, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Nurse speaks of his extreme and growing weakness. "I can notice a change in two days."

I went up and talked with the nurse and she advised me to bring J. up immediately—which I did.

Friday, January 31, 1890

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

written 22d. inst.) containing the following passage: "If I had a good hospital well conducted—some good nurse—to

Friday, March 18, 1892

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

enclose my notes.I think the attendants are quite faithful and competent to do all that more skilled nursing

Friday, May 31, 1889

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

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

Friday, November 1, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Kindly tell me how you are arranging the thing, what the expense of a nurse is and how you are collecting

Friday, November 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke said this about the change in nurses: "Horace tells me that Musgrove is to leave on Sunday or Monday

Friday, October 18, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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the man himself—his friend kept me busily engaged—but I discovered he was pretty green—had never nursed

Friday, October 26, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. in handing me letter from Bucke which came today, said: "He speaks there of a change of the nurse.

I do not hear good accounts of your present nurse (Musgrove) and I have just written to Horace about

Friday, September 4, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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They said he was in permanent charge of a nurse, who went with him wherever he happened to be; even intimated

What's more, he had no nurse about him—nobody at all.

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
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He has been a visitor of prisons, a protector of fugitive slaves, a constant voluntary nurse, night and

one of those pretty and good girls, who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played many roles in Whitman's life—from nurse

Monday, April 23, 1888.

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

that he is not wanted, that his room is better than his company, that he has a good heart—that he can nurse

Monday, August 6, 1888.

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

mind and after all wrote a dozen lines or so, which I have just sent up to the post office by the nurse

Monday, December 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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His physicians have told him of his exact condition, but he pleasantly said to his nurse, "We may beat

Monday, December 28, 1891

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

Now in search of a professional nurse (wants a woman).The Johnston-Wallace cable yesterday was simply

He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman, but told Doctor after introduction, "I feel I

But I guess doctors and nurses learn to bear with the poor sick human critter."

I went to see Warrie, who said W. had spoken to him to effect that he had rather the new nurse had been

Nurse was to start this evening to relieve Warrie.Bucke now came up, and he and I went into W.'

Monday, February 1, 1892

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

To see Childs, too, and considerable talk with him anent nurse at W.'s and W.'s affairs generally.

Monday, January 18, 1892

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

Tell him, Horace, that I am well-looked after—that I am satisfied everything is done for me—doctors, nurses

Monday, January 21, 1889

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

have spent a summer with him at the Asylum—on the farm: till you meet the doctors, the patients, the nurses

Monday, January 25, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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s together, finding the nurses together busily engaged changing W. and the bed.

But best of all is the careful nursing, Doctor."

Monday, July 1, 1889

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

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

Monday July 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Change of nurses has something to do with this. Musgrove is a cloudy man. I asked how M. got on.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

Monday July 23, 1888.

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

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

Monday, July 6, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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downstairs" rooms at six o'clock in the evening; then Whitman came down from his bedroom, assisted by his nurse

Monday, July 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I told W. that in soliciting contributions to the nurse fund I had never put it on the ground of poverty

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

Monday, June 11, 1888.

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

Donaldson came to consult with Bucke about a nurse circular but missed Bucke.

"I think he is mending," said Baker: "he is less confused—he helps his nurse: he ought to show a decided

Monday, June 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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B. at one point spoke of the circular for contributions for keeping a nurse in the house for W.

Monday, November 23, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Evidently nursing the rather diminutive flame, which soon, however, blazed up and induced him to go back

Monday, November 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Seems to be a professional nurse.

Wrote on the back of his card, also sent, that if W. needed a nurse he ventured to offer himself.

Monday, November 5, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had the new nurse turned up yet? W. laughed.

Monday, October 14, 1889

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

Have not got on track of a nurse yet. Monday, October 14, 1889

Monday, October 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Then laughed over the fact that the new nurse had not turned up today—made no sign.

Monday, October 27, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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afternoon at two he lectured some students, coming out from the city, with a number of his own girls: nurses

Monday, October 6, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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impulse—that so astonished Warren (she is a large, good woman, too) to rush out and pitch me, chair and nurse

Monday, September 17th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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After B. was gone W. said: "He's a gentle fellow—was a sweet nurse: it was like good health to have him

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master about a new case.

He was nurse at the time to a number of soldiers, badly wounded in the late battles, and whose wounds

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, " Warry, shift,''he pain in hisside

Wilkins days ETC. 01 MEMORIES, LETTERS, has my young Kanuck, my nurse and helper Dr.

Horace [Traubel] and my nurse Ed. have gone prospecting to Phila :for a suitableout-door chairfor me

My ypung nurse isdown stairslearning his fiddle lesson. Sun shining out to-day. '90.

Saturday, April 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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would be much gained by making such a change, I am well aware—the best doctors, surgeons, rooms, nursing

Saturday, December 13, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

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