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Seems to be a professional nurse.

The nurse had left her daily notes for me. The air tranquil.

—had some conversations on nurses, nursing and the care of the sick. Mr.

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

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

"All the day I have had simply to nurse myself against this utter deadness that presses me."

The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

Has nurses and all done for him that can be.

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

All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

She described interestingly visit paid to W. at time Musgrove was nurse—how Musgrove interfered—tried

s nurse etc. etc.

He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

>Discursively discussed nurses.

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

Have not got on track of a nurse yet.Tuesday, October 15, 18897.15 P.M.

I gave Ed a letter to Gould about a new nurse. Hard to secure!

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

I find myself very anxious on this point of the nurse.

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

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

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

And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Had the new nurse turned up yet? W. laughed.

it was very bad: we nursed him: I was there once, twice, often three times a day: posted the nurses,

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Talked of nurses. "After all the best nurses are women—at the last the women are always called in.

But "the ideal nurse is yet to come."

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

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

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

He also objected to having the nurse sleep there in the room with him.

There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

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

you & your hospital work, & realized for the first time the awful strain it must have been on you nurses

And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.

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

about Whitman, stating, "I am sorry to hear of the physical disabilities of the man who tenderly nursed

Baker to nurse him.

The nurse found his position something of a sinecure, for his patient would have none of him and it was

his bed room, as he completed his toilet, by stamping his foot in it was the first intimation the nurse

Later, on a day trip with Douglas, Paschal, her son, and the slave Sophy who was his nurse, Douglas presented

writes publicly acceptable poems of American patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

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

One of the nurses constantly fanshim,foritisfearfullyhot.Heaskstoberais’dup,andtheyputhiminahalf- sitting

Warren Fritzinger, WW’s male nurse. 2.

butwithnormalmentalityandgoodright-armpower.Heyetlivesinhiscottage,withhousekeeper 108 T H E C O L L E C T E D W R I T I N G S O F WA L T W H I T M A N and nurse

Whitman on the Camden wharf with Warren Fritzinger, who was his nurse and companion during the last three

was seen being embraced by “the negro cook,” who had come out to greet the poet because Whitman had nursed

surprising, since Whitman witnessed the effects of mangled and brutalized bodies firsthand when he nursed

the years after the war, many successful reminiscences of Civil War hospitals, written mostly by nurses

aware that there was a market for such books, but his, of course, would be something different from a nursing

He became a bookseller, worked as a nurse's assistant, then studied medicine in Leipzig, where he specialized

From the spring of 1863 onward, this nursing in the field, and in the hospitals at Washington, was his

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

In the 60s, just after the had appeared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and took part in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and,

This spark of the creatively progressive was one that he fanned and nursed; and if his system the result

In 1862 he went to the war, and it was while act ing as nurse of the wounded soldiers that he gained

I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.

Hourly or oftener he would ring or call the nurse to change his position.

At another time the nurse told him they were thinking of getting a new bed for him.

As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yester day introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white nurse's

conscious of his basic virtues not only through the eyes of a poet but also through the clinical eyes of a nurse

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

Walt Whitman's war ministry in the capital's hospitals followed upon his nursing of brother George on

heregardedfarmersin the rural areas and workers in the coal pits, respectively, as the nurses of humanity

Nurses are kept in attendance from this time to his death.

The first of Whitman's male nurses is employed, Nathan M. Baker.

Edward Wilkins becomes Whitman's nurse (nN, 2:476).

Whitman's first nurse, Nathan Baker, graduates from medical school, and Dr.

A hired nurse, Elizabeth L. Keller, begins taking care of Whitman. 1892 1 JANUARY.

in a visit he made to Brooklyn shortly before his brother's death, but he was back in Washington nursing

Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the war nurse who moved to Washington and threw himself into his work

The same old rains and the same old sun and nursed dews, soil, it,yet in so many ways how novel and strange

depletion, energies. farm boy, then a school-teacher, then a printer,ed itor,writer, traveler, mechanic, nurse

He did the for them no nurse or doctor things could do, and he seemed to leave a benediction at every

On Whitman’s years in Washington and his role as a “nurse,” see, for example, Peter Coviello’s introduction

1864poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This is a manuscript with poem notes relating to Whitman's experience as a nurse

common simples of domestic practice; and the third class he left to the common-sense management of the nurses

All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

Burroughs advises more energetic, even drastic, nursing—rubbing, massage, and so on.

chair she had an almost irresistible impulse to rush out of the house and pitch him, chair, man and nurse

W. received a long letter from Bucke to-daytoday talking about the change in nurses.

When I called, found the vestibule door unfastened and apparently no one about—neither nurse nor Mrs.

I had never heard him in all the months before express any desire for the presence of a nurse—even care

where the nurse might be—but this evening he said: "I do not like his staying so long and saying nothing

found—which, with great manly strength, unites sweet delicacy, soft as a woman's, gentle enough to nurse

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

s health—asked him if he did not feel better than a year ago—W. only responding: "I have a good nurse

There are none too many massagers, as I call them—especially male massagers,—nor good male nurses, for

any indications he might give—try to be on hand yourself—and to make sure speak quietly to the new nurse

shall have my daily rubbing—a first-rate, vigorous, massage—by my young friend here"—he will never say nurse

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

"Harlots and sinners—discredited persons, criminals: they should be my audience: women, doctors, nurses

always fed—cannot wield knife and fork and even tires using his fingers, as I have seen him do, the nurse

>Discursively discussed nurses.

W. thought, "They seem impossible to our time—certainly to America—the true nurse must be a male: that

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

during the War to whom justice has never been done—the telegraph boys, the cadet physicians, the nurses

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

"I think you are well off as to doctors and nurses now—Osler, Walsh and Wilkins—it is a strong team and

reached over quietly and took my hand: "Not to speak of you, Horace, who are worth all the doctors and nurses