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America Feb: 10 '90 — It is near sunset after a bright winter day & I am waiting for my supper—my young nurse
Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share
early supper (do not eat dinner at all, find it best)—have massage every day—bath also—have a good nurse
had sent you word not to—all right now tho—it is ab't sun-down—I am waiting for my supper—My young nurse
Davis, my housekeeper, is well—She has been off to Kansas & Colorado on a jaunt—Warren Fritzinger my nurse
well—Logan writes—am sitting here dully enough—stupid—no exhilaration—no massage or wheel-chair to day—my nurse
has disappear'd for the day—now 3½ oclock—If I had a good hospital, well conducted—some good nurse—to
afternoon—Tom Harned last evn'g—Geo: Stafford (the elder) yesterday—Cool weather here—fine sunny—My nurse
have a good strong tight cane chair & get out in it almost every day —propell'd by my stout young man nurse
badly—but I keep fair spirits & suppose mentality & (as before written) fair appetite & sleep—have a good nurse
Ingersoll to me —my nurse is down stairs practising on his fiddle—he gets along well— Walt Whitman Walt
bodily wreck, cannot get across the room without holding on to something or being led—have a stout man nurse
In a good hospital you would be surrounded by absolutely capable attendants (doctors and nurses) and
being whisked over here in two hours, then after three days good solid rest, with Mrs Davis & your nurse
You were a "Nurse" in 1861. You are the biggist of humbug Poets of this or precedent generation! G.
department by Secretary Harlan and gained him the friendship of Tennyson, and of the days when its author nursed
Philadelphia to visit Whitman on July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and his favorite nurse
Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse
When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse
Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse
When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse