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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

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!

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.

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1891

  • Date: August 2, 1891
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

I obtained a nurse, for my time was occupied in procuring remedies—all day—until allmost almost night

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

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

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1892

  • Date: March 16, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26–27 June 1891

  • Date: June 26–27, 1891; June 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston | Unknown author
Text:

Yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, representatives of the matrons, sisters and nurses of the

Lord Tennyson has written these lines in the first volume of his works:— Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

Edward Bertz to Walt Whitman, 20–22 July 1889

  • Date: July 20–22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Edward Bertz
Text:

voyage did me much good, and when I arrived at Rugby, I was well enough to help for a month or two in nursing

Edward T. Wood to Walt Whitman, 21 December 1891

  • Date: December 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Edward T. Wood
Text:

—He also gave my nurse each night instructions that at the end of each 2 hours, I should take a milk

Edward Wilkins to Walt Whitman, 24 December 1889

  • Date: December 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Edward Wilkins
Text:

would have stayed longer with you only for some of the Camden fellows that was keeping up the nurce nurse

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

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.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 February 1889

  • Date: February 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

You must remember that I am housekeeper, nurse, marketer, & have to see that the house is decent, if

So far I am the only nurse, & if you have been as badly off as he is, you may have some idea of what

You will ask why we don't have a nurse?

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, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

I am his sole & only nurse, & help to dress, undress & bathe him, & he is under no restraint to say how

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1889

  • Date: January 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

you, but the pressure is so great that I can't get the moment to sit down, for as yet I am the only nurse

If things get worse I shall have to have a man to help me lift & nurse William.

I am sure he could advise me how to nurse & care for William in the best hospital manner,—as yet he has

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

G. Jarrell to Walt Whitman, 15 September 1890

  • Date: September 15, 1890
  • Creator(s): G. Jarrell
Text:

You were a "Nurse" in 1861. You are the biggist of humbug Poets of this or precedent generation! G.

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 13–14 November [1868]

  • Date: November 13–14, [1868]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Text:

refused so many things I did not like to tell mother but first Charlie was very ugly He would not get a nurse

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
Text:

Jeff's wife, Mattie, attempted to be a peacemaker: she offered to nurse George if he should return home

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Jerome M. Loving
Text:

fight (and perhaps lacking the inclination to bear arms), he began his service as a psychological nurse

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

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

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 23 September 1890

  • Date: September 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

being whisked over here in two hours, then after three days good solid rest, with Mrs Davis & your nurse

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.

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [4–5 December 1863]

  • Date: December 4–5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

i went again and marthe went he wanted her to come she was there nearly all day only came home to nurse

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5–6 May 1873]

  • Date: May 5–6, 1873
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

home sick the 1 of next month if you are able you must try to come on here lou s Lou's aunt goes to 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

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1890

  • Date: February 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1888

  • Date: December 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

away to see you and stay a little with you—but you have good doctors and I am glad to think, a good nurse

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

him every day now—I am heartily glad you like Dr Walsh —I think you are well off as to doctors and nurse

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 December 1889

  • Date: December 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I am well pleased that you like your present nurse so well and hope he will stick to you and to the massage

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1890

  • Date: January 25, 1890
  • Creator(s): richard Maurice Bucke | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

In a good hospital you would be surrounded by absolutely capable attendants (doctors and nurses) and

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.

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

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1889

  • Date: August 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1889

  • Date: September 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

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

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

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

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

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 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 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

Walt Whitman to Bernard O'Dowd, 12 July 1890

  • Date: July 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

have a good strong tight cane chair & get out in it almost every day —propell'd by my stout young man nurse

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