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

In a good hospital you would be surrounded by absolutely capable attendants (doctors and nurses) and

the same—Mr Musgrove rec'd a note from our friend Harned this morning that after Monday next a new nurse

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

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

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

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

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

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

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

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

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

this job enabled Whitman to write his poetry and, at the same time, perform his ministrations as a nurse

Referring to the matter of the nurse, W. said laughingly: "It is with that as with the getting a husband

would have stayed longer with you only for some of the Camden fellows that was keeping up the nurce nurse

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

the third day—A young rather green fellow, Charles Sterrit, came over here as candidate for my new nurse

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

I am well pleased that you like your present nurse so well and hope he will stick to you and to the massage

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

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

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.

I said 'Let it go', but doctors and nurses made a strong pull for it; fought for it like royal tigers

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

most intimate friends, afterward his biographer, and one of his literary executors, met me at the Nurses

This was Warren Fritzinger,* **Died in October 1899. his nurse, and my constant associate in taking care

And that strange feeling which comes over patient and nurse when they are learning to know each other

Reefy, "[l]ike Walt Whitman," was a nurse in the Civil War (330).

was introduced in the Congress to give Whitman a twenty-five-dollar a month pension for his work nursing

afternoon at two he lectured some students, coming out from the city, with a number of his own girls: nurses

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

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

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

come out safe , I somehow feel certain Mother is well as usual—defers every thing else, & does the nursing

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

.—& a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women & men nurses &c &c.

musquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

war poems.The text evokes a small, wartime scene of the sort which Whitman, in his capacity as a nurse's

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

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

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

Lines 5–11 suggest Whitman's service as a nurse during the Civil War and echo passages from Drum-Taps

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

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

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

away to see you and stay a little with you—but you have good doctors and I am glad to think, a good nurse

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

Mother has had an attack of illness, somewhat severe, the last few days—& I have been sort of nurse &

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

the thickest of that time and amid all its turmoils and suspense, night and day with his own hands nursing

Leaders of the Civil War," for which he asked Whitman to write a piece about his work as a volunteer nurse

resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed

received your two letters, & was glad to get them— —Mother has been quite sick, & I have been sort of nurse