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Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 August 1848

  • Date: August 2, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to see her in Miss Lucretia MacTub MacTab , and in the Old Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and in Mrs.

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

  • Date: August 31, 1862
  • Creator(s): W. W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
Text:

We have a "youngest" a year old who is a nobleman and beauty who must have a good nurse in order that

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1862

  • Date: December 19, 1862
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

bring George home with you and how nicely we would establish him in our front room with Mat as chief nurse

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 April 1863

  • Date: April 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Text:

I have five young ladies who act in the capacity of nurses—i e, one of them is French , young and beautiful

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 5 May 1863

  • Date: May 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

reproductive organs, and, somehow, it wd seem to be the result of their logic—that eunuchs only are fit for nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 May 1863

  • Date: May 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

him—Mother, such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

something like I found John Holmes last winter—I called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses

without fail, & often at night—sometimes stay very late—no one interferes with me, guards, doctors, nurses

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1863

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

let him have one of her rooms upstairs for him to sleep in and I intended to see if he could not be nursed

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fans him, for it is fearfully hot.

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

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

.—& a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women & men nurses &c &c.

musquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 11–15 October, 1863

  • Date: October 11–15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You wrote about Emma, her thinking she might & ought to come as nurse for the soldiers—dear girl, I know

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 October 1863

  • Date: October 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dirty & torn, & many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses

Caleb H. Babbitt to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1863

  • Date: October 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Caleb H. Babbitt
Text:

both dark Walt—I have been verry low since I have been at home, and all that has saved me is good nursing

I must tell you who I have had to cheer and nurse me, besides my parents and sisters: is a young Lady

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1863

  • Date: October 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

His disease of course makes Andrew fretful and discouraged, and instead of soothing and nursing him Nancy

Walt Whitman to Lewis K. Brown, 8–9 November 1863

  • Date: November 8–9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

Lewis K. Brown to Walt Whitman, 13–14 November 1863

  • Date: November 13–14, 1863
  • Creator(s): Lewis K. Brown
Text:

do quite with it as you told me. that is I did not take it to each one, but I took it to the lady nurse

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 15 November 1863

  • Date: November 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My sister Martha is untiring, feeding & nursing him.

Alonzo S. Bush to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1863

  • Date: December 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): Alonzo S. Bush
Text:

I want you to give my best wishes to the Lady Nurse of Ward K also to W[ard] M[aster] Cate, Brown, Billy

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 15 March 1864

  • Date: March 15, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wish to hear about them—every one is so unfeeling, it has got to be an old story—there is no good nursing—O

Elijah Douglass Fox to Walt Whitman, 14 July 1864

  • Date: July 14, 1864
  • Creator(s): Elijah Douglass Fox
Text:

I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you

Walt Whitman to John Townsend Trowbridge, 6 February 1865

  • Date: February 6, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1865]

  • Date: March 5, 1865
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

A thrill run through him and thought he was dying he was in the dark he cald called to one of the nurses

Walt Whitman to Mrs. Irwin, 1 May 1865

  • Date: May 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing, &c.

Walt Whitman to N. M. and John B. Pratt, 10 June 1865

  • Date: June 10, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Alfred has good accommodations where he is, & a good doctor, & nursing—so you must not worry about him

Kate Richardson to Walt Whitman, 18 June 1865

  • Date: June 18, 1865
  • Creator(s): Kate Richardson | Nate Richardson
Text:

Rice who is helping nurse the wounded soldiers in Armory Square Hospital.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1865

  • Date: October 17, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Howard's sister Sallie is very sick, I think typhoid fever, & I have been out to-day trying to get a nurse

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 1 November 1865

  • Date: November 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I got a good nurse for them, as their nurse had to leave.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 5 May [1867]

  • Date: May 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

come out safe , I somehow feel certain Mother is well as usual—defers every thing else, & does the nursing

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, June 1867

  • Date: June 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Hyde | Charles Heyde
Text:

I have nursed her in sickness, made every thing as agreeable and convenient as possible for her household

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 17 January 1868

  • Date: January 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

get away tomorrow but hope to— We had quite a pleasant time in coming on—Mrs Rice —(with child and nurse

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 14 July 1871

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

received your two letters, & was glad to get them— —Mother has been quite sick, & I have been sort of nurse

Walt Whitman to Charles Hine, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For some days past my mother has been ill—some of the time very ill—and I have been nurse & doctor too

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mother has had an attack of illness, somewhat severe, the last few days—& I have been sort of nurse &

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 January [1873]

  • Date: January 31, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter Doyle are regular still, helping & lifting & nursing

Thérèse C. Simpson and Elizabeth J. Scott Moncrieff to Walt Whitman, 30 March 1876

  • Date: March 30, 1876
  • Creator(s): Thérèse C. Simpson and Elizabeth J. Scott Moncrieff
Text:

is so painful to us to hear of so dear a friend being in trouble, we sh.d should like to go over & nurse

Beatrice Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1878

  • Date: August 12, 1878
  • Creator(s): Beatrice Gilchrist
Text:

Berlin), all the students, & superintendent of nurses.

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

The number of visits depending on the need & the competency of the nurse.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1881

  • Date: February 16, 1881
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Dear Giddy has been such an indefatigable & capital nurse & housekeeper!

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [August(?) 1881]

  • Date: August 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

Robert Underwood Johnson to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1884

  • Date: July 12, 1884
  • Creator(s): Robert Underwood Johnson
Text:

Gilder's request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Walt Whitman to Robert Underwood Johnson, 4 August 1884

  • Date: August 4, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

request a few days ago Yes I will gladly write for the Century an article on the Hospitals & Hospital Nursing

Richard Watson Gilder to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1884

  • Date: August 9, 1884
  • Creator(s): Richard Watson Gilder
Text:

Whitman, I am glad you can do the nursing article.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, [20 December 1884]

  • Date: December 20, 1884
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

institution however is a place that many have preferred to be taken to, in sickness: where perfect trained nurses

I have nursed Han though many very bad, very hard physical disorders, typhoid, Erysipilas Erysipelas

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1888

  • Date: March 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 June 1888

  • Date: June 17, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

little or no grip on my brain—but the doctor gives favorable clues, says pulse is vigorable—my good nurse

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 July 1888

  • Date: July 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I am glad to think you are well enough to get on without a regular nurse but however well you get you

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 July 1888

  • Date: July 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ab't 120—remain in good spirits— Walt Whitman the proofs &c don't hurt me—I don't worry them—the new nurse

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1888

  • Date: October 1, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

been looking forward to as a happy reunion, was given over to anxiety & telegrams to doctors and nurses

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1888

  • Date: October 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 31 October 1888

  • Date: October 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the same—Mr Musgrove rec'd a note from our friend Harned this morning that after Monday next a new nurse

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 9 November 1888

  • Date: November 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I have plenty visitors enough & good ones—my appetite & sleep are fair—I have a new helper & nurse, a

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