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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

Drum-Taps

  • Date: 11 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

Drum-Taps.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Drum-Taps (1865)

  • Date: 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

"Drum-Taps" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Gutman, Huck
Text:

The biographer Paul Zweig sees in Whitman's ability to touch and comfort soldiers—Whitman nursed and

perceptively points out that prior to the cataclysm of the Civil War and Whitman's active involvement in nursing

for the poet the dominating metaphor for the war is a hospital, filled with injured men who must be nursed

Its narrator takes on the role of nurse, attendant to the sufferings of injured soldiers.

Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps

  • Date: 1865; 1865–1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

The Eagle’s Idea of “Friendly Joke”

  • Date: 28 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or, in other words, that his sore head would be good Black Republican capital, and as such he would nurse

Eakins, Thomas (1844–1916)

  • Creator(s): Leon, Philip W.
Text:

Baker, Whitman's nurse for two years and a witness to Whitman's will of 29 June 1888.

Early Roman History

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; April 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
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If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

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

The Evolution of Walt Whitman: An Expanded Edition

  • Date: 1999
  • Creator(s): Asselineau, Roger
Text:

Let him who can do so shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast. . .

I called the doctor's atttention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps

On the way back, he stopped at Sterling, Kansas, to visit a Civil War veteran whom he had nursed in a

His friends came to his aid and furnished the services of a male nurse so that, after a fashion, he was

His first nurse was a medical student, Eddie Wilkins; he was succeeded by Frank Warren Fritzinger, a

"Excelsior" (1856)

  • Creator(s): Rechel-White, Julie A.
Text:

indicates an indictment of Longfellow, who had continued to write sentimental verse while Whitman was nursing

Falmouth, Virginia

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
Text:

wounded men bound for the hospitals in Washington, D.C., where he took up residence and continued to nurse

Farnham, Eliza W. (1815–1864)

  • Creator(s): Ceniza, Sherry
Text:

served as matron of Sing Sing prison for four years (1844–1848), worked at the Perkins Institution, nursed

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

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Arrived there, the kindness of Violet did not pause at any attentions or motherly nursings.

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 28, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South. [Composite Version]

  • Date: November 16–30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst; And by its mirth, within the brain A sleepless worm is nursed

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

Friday, April 19, 1889

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

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
Text:

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
Text:

.: "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
Text:

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
Text:

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

Friday, February 5, 1892

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

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

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.

Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)

  • Creator(s): Krieg, Joann P.
Text:

Joann P.KriegFritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (1866–1899)Whitman's nurse

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The routine demanded at these huge hospitals from the duties of surgeon, nurse, &c., is generally fulfilled

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