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Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18–21 December 1889

  • Date: December 18–21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—have had a good currying bout—I sometimes fancy I get the vitalest ones I ever had f'm my present 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 1 May 1889

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

night—(Ed goes—I am favorable)—& besides Dr Baker "graduates" this afternoon—you know he is my first nurse—last

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, 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, 18–19 July 1890

  • Date: July 18–19, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

here the same in cane chair in my Mickle Street den—the big whistle has sounded 1 o'clock—my good nurse

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 Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

One of the nurses constantly fans him, for it is fearfully hot.

Walt Whitman to Mrs. Irwin, 1 May 1865

  • Date: May 1, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing, &c.

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 6–7 December 1888

  • Date: December 6–7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Street—have not been out doors for over six months—hardly out my room—Have a good young strong & helper & nurse

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 11 January 1889

  • Date: January 11, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

weeks ago —am very weak & unable to get across the room without assistance—but have a good strong nurse

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the river shore when I feel like it—have a good strong young Canadian (Ed Wilkins ) for my helper & nurse—have

Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 8 January 1889

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

mutton-broth & milk & toast bread—am very feeble, cannot get across the room without assistance—have a nurse

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, [27 October 1889]

  • Date: [October 27, 1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

welcomed as sunshine—I am sitting here in my den as ever—dark & rainy to-day & yesterday—My Canadian nurse

Walt Whitman to Charles Hine, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For some days past my mother has been ill—some of the time very ill—and I have been nurse & doctor too

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 7 July 1891

  • Date: July 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I got over the 4th favorably—am sitting here by the window as usual—have had a good supper—My nurse has

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

Walt Whitman to Bernard O'Dowd, 22–23 July 1890

  • Date: July 22–23, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

we can—most likely profit by them—As I sit here alone, in my big old 2d story room "den," my young nurse

Walt Whitman to Bernard O'Dowd, 3 November 1890

  • Date: November 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

badly—but I keep fair spirits & suppose mentality & (as before written) fair appetite & sleep—have a good nurse

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 June 1890

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

Ingersoll to me —my nurse is down stairs practising on his fiddle—he gets along well— Walt Whitman Walt

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

something like I found John Holmes last winter—I called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses

without fail, & often at night—sometimes stay very late—no one interferes with me, guards, doctors, nurses

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 15 November 1863

  • Date: November 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My sister Martha is untiring, feeding & nursing him.

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, 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, 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 Ellen M. O'Connor, 25 September 1890

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

bodily wreck, cannot get across the room without holding on to something or being led—have a stout man nurse

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 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 Dr. John Johnston, 6–7 February 1892

  • Date: February 6–7, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

my own hand—propp'd up in bed, deadly weak yet but the spark seems to glimmer yet —the doctors & nurses

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 Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 January [1873]

  • Date: January 31, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter Doyle are regular still, helping & lifting & nursing

Leaves of Grass (1867)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

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

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

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

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 4 June 1889

  • Date: June 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

better—get out almost daily in the open air, push'd on a wheel'd chair by a stout Canadian friend, my 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

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1871)

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1871)

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

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

American Feuillage.

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

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto 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 John Burroughs, 8 February [1889]

  • Date: February 8, [1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

continue almost totally disabled from getting around, can hardly get across the room—have a good stout nurse

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

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