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Wednesday, August 29, 1888.

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

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

Wednesday, August 15, 1888.

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

Nurse said he stayed up unusually late last evening. Generally turns in about ten.

Wednesday, April 11, 1888.

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

speak of a letter he had just received from a western man, now prosperous, who had as a soldier been nursed

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The principal singer was a young lady nurse of one of the wards, accompanying on a melodeon, and joined

by the lady nurses of other wards.

standing up a little behind them were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses

Washington, D.C. [1863–1873]

  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Whitman might have spent the remainder of his days in the Federal District.Drawn initially to D.C. to nurse

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

amid strangers, passing away untended there, (for the crowd of the badly hurt was great, and much for nurse

Walter M. Rew to Walt Whitman, [1890–1892]

  • Date: 1890–1892; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walter M. Rew | Unknown author
Text:

These plays are: (1) The Troubador—who nurses wounded heroes during the war of the Rebellion (2).

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

(December 1862) precipitated Walt's departure to the Washington, D.C., area and ultimately to his nursing

The former depicts a setting with one soldier nursing his dying companion that could almost accompany

description of the possible house—she expressed her appreciation for the two devoted companions who were nursing

Walt Whitman's Words

  • Date: 23 September 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He came out of the war poor, after having nearly exhausted his vitality in nursing soldiers in the hospitals

Nature supplied the place of a bride, with suffering to be nursed and scenes to be poetically clothed

Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History

  • Date: 2011
  • Creator(s): Buinicki, Martin T.
Text:

journalist, and, most significantly, as onewho had seen so much of the misery of the war while serving as a nurse

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

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
Text:

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

Walt Whitman's Home

  • Date: 29 April 1890
  • Creator(s): Anonymous | Fred C. Dayton
Text:

department by Secretary Harlan and gained him the friendship of Tennyson, and of the days when its author nursed

Walt Whitman's Good-Bye

  • Date: 12 December 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

States and principal cities, North and South—went to the front (moving about and occupied as army nurse

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

A trained female nurse, he said, took care of Mr.

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps

  • Date: March 1866
  • Creator(s): B.
Text:

winter of '63 and '64 recur very vividly to memory; his meeting soldiers on the street whom he had nursed

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

During his life he has worked as printer, carpenter, school-teacher, army-nurse, and clerk in the office

Walt Whitman's “Song Of Myself”

  • Date: 1989
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

alone in the wilds, a marriage that is consummated in a hostile environment, and the lonely I who nurses

as it would have remained otherwise. . . . the physiological Leaves of Grass-the Leaves of Grass nursed

swallowing soul" is metonymic rather than metaphoric, related to our first "experiential knowledge" of nursing

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, William D. O'Connor, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 3–4 December 1888

  • Date: December 3–4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

big chair by the fire, the stove—it is sharp & cold, bright & sunny—Ed Wilkins (my young Kanuck, my nurse

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 8 May 1889

  • Date: May 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

onnor] (f'm the wife ) to day, & I am gloomy—Dr B[ucke] writes me every day & cheerily—Horace & my nurse

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 18 June 1890

  • Date: June 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

early supper (do not eat dinner at all, find it best)—have massage every day—bath also—have a good nurse

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 18 December 1888

  • Date: December 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a good strong willing nurse , & good doctoring watch—I send my love & memories to Mrs: F., to Baxter,

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 10 February 1890

  • Date: February 10, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 1 February 1889

  • Date: February 1, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of coffee— My housekeeper Mrs: Davis is compell'd to be temporarily absent these two days & Ed my 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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 6 May 1889

  • Date: May 6, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cogitating of a strong out-door push chair to get out in, to be propell'd by my good hearty Canadian nurse

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

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

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 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.

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 6 February 1889

  • Date: February 6, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

friends from seeing me)—& for a month or so I was in a horrible plight—a nuisance to myself & all—but my nurse

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 30 July 1889

  • Date: July 30, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

D and Ed Wilkins (my nurse) are good & so far I get along fairly with appetite, grub & sleep wh' of course

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 9–[10] December 1889

  • Date: December 9–[10], 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

more you want)—damp & dark, & very mild here—I have had a bath, & am sitting here alone—Warren my nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 May 1889

  • Date: May 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ashington] may-be unconscious,—may-be passing from life—meanwhile—thought o'ertoppling all else—my old nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7 December 1889

  • Date: December 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

here alone in my den—one bunch of flowers on the table at my left & another on the right—& Warren my nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 4–[5] January 1890

  • Date: January 4–[5], 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cool—Supper of rice & mutton stew—I continue my non-mid-day meal or dinner—appetite fair—as I sit here my nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 31 October 1889

  • Date: October 31, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden Oct:31 '89 "The same subject continued"—good bowel passage last evn'g— my sailor boy nurse (Warren

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 October 1889

  • Date: October 30, 1889; 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown author | Unknown
Text:

threatening rain—My sister Lou this forenoon with a nice chicken & some Graham biscuits—Warren (my nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 3–4 November 1888

  • Date: November 3–4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

season, or put it aside altogether—I suppose Edward Wilkins will be here to-morrow—Mr M, my present nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 29 December 1889

  • Date: December 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sunday Evn'g Dec: 29 '89 Much the same things &c: continued—feeling dull & stupid—dark bad weather—my nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 June 1891

  • Date: June 28, 1891; 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown author
Text:

Representatives of matrons, sisters and nurses of the Kingdom waited on the Princess Louise of Schleswig–Holstein

these simple lines, being the latest and probably the last from his pen: Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24–25 September 1890

  • Date: September 24–25, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

1890 Camden Sept: 24—noon —Sunny cool day—Warry (my nurse) proposes that we get a horse and wagon & drive

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 November 1888

  • Date: November 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown author
Text:

Phil: Record Nov 24 As I write Ed W is making up the bed—he is a good nurse to me & does well—I believe

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 August 1890

  • Date: August 24, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

afternoon—Tom Harned last evn'g—Geo: Stafford (the elder) yesterday—Cool weather here—fine sunny—My nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 October 1889

  • Date: October 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

22 '89 Fine sunny weather continued—Warren Fritzinger , one of Mrs D's sailor boys, is acting as my nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 January 1890

  • Date: January 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 November 1889

  • Date: November 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Fritzinger, has just been up to see me—I like the two fellows, & they do me good (his brother Warren is my nurse

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

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