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G. Jarrell to Walt Whitman, 15 September 1890

  • Date: September 15, 1890
  • Creator(s): G. Jarrell
Text:

You were a "Nurse" in 1861. You are the biggist of humbug Poets of this or precedent generation! G.

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

personal presence and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism" that he was able to help, than by "medical nursing

He gives fine praise to the surgeons, nurses and soldiers—"not a bit of sentimentalism or whining have

and many a mother's son amid strangers passing away untended there, for the crowd was too much for nurse

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844–1909)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

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

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

He has been a visitor of prisons, a protector of fugitive slaves, a constant voluntary nurse, night and

one of those pretty and good girls, who in muslin and ribbons ornament the wards, and are called "nurses

The Good Grey Poet

  • Date: 4 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

But as soon as war was declared, Whitman threw up all other appointments and went in to serve as a nurse

He nursed over a hundred thousand men with his own hands, for five years he had not more than two nights

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
Text:

whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing

The Great Army of the Sick

  • Date: 26 February 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Each ward has a Ward-master, and generally a nurse for every ten or twelve men.

Some of the wards have a woman nurse—the Armory-square wards have some very good ones.

The nurse from Ward E to whom Whitman refers may be Amanda Akin Stearns, whose memoir of her time as

a nurse in Armory Square General Hospital is titled, The Lady Nurse of Ward E .

that could not be repressed—sometimes a poor fellow dying, with emaciated face and glassy eye, the nurse

The Great Washington Hospitals

  • Date: 19 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of good jelly; I carry a good sized jar to a ward, have it opened, get a spoon, and taking the head nurse

C of that regiment, Isaac Snyder; he is now acting as nurse there, and makes a very good one.

the other hospitals I met with general cordiality and deference among the doctors, ward officers, nurses

Of course there are exceptions of good officials here, and some of the women nurses are excellent, but

surgeons in charge of many of the hospitals, and often the ward surgeons, medical cadets, and head nurses

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 13–14 November [1868]

  • Date: November 13–14, [1868]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Text:

refused so many things I did not like to tell mother but first Charlie was very ugly He would not get a nurse

Health

  • Creator(s): Sanfilip, Thomas
Text:

Although he attributed the collapse of his health to prolonged exposure to viruses and diseases while nursing

Heroes and Heroines

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

His three years nursing in the Washington hospitals were surely heroic in humanitarian terms.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823–1911)

  • Creator(s): Harris, W. Edward
Text:

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

I Sing the Body Digital

  • Creator(s): Sandra Beasley
Text:

provide context for poems drafted at the time, many of which were inspired by wounded soldiers Whitman nursed

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with

In RE Walt Whitman: Round Table with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

Plato gives in the first pages of the Republic—enjoying the abiding presence of sweet hope, that 'kind nurse

In RE Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman at Date

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Text:

within a few months paid him a visit, made a series of photographs of dwelling, street, room, and nurse

men need to know of him is his wonderful simplicity and capaciousness—that manuscript, house, room, nurse

Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

W. man of the woods, nurse, friend, journalist, paralytic…..Poet?

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

He does not know how I am paying for the nurse.”

Pessimist: Nurse Keller “He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman,” Traubel reported of

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.”

This was his first specification of what form a nurse should take.

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh, that is very essential.”

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
Text:

Jeff's wife, Mattie, attempted to be a peacemaker: she offered to nurse George if he should return home

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Jerome M. Loving
Text:

fight (and perhaps lacking the inclination to bear arms), he began his service as a psychological nurse

felt A thrill run through him and thought he was dying  he was in the dark  he cald to one of the nurses

Introduction to Horace Traubel

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

more help with daily tasks, and from the mid-1880s, Traubel played many roles in Whitman's life—from nurse

Introduction to Walt Whitman, Poemas, by Álvaro Armando Vasseur

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen | Rachel Price
Text:

Walt Whitman practiced as a volunteer nurse during the War of Secession.

Nietzsche was also a nurse during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 5 May 1863

  • Date: May 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

reproductive organs, and, somehow, it wd seem to be the result of their logic—that eunuchs only are fit for nurses

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 23 September 1890

  • Date: September 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

being whisked over here in two hours, then after three days good solid rest, with Mrs Davis & your nurse

Kate Richardson to Walt Whitman, 18 June 1865

  • Date: June 18, 1865
  • Creator(s): Kate Richardson | Nate Richardson
Text:

Rice who is helping nurse the wounded soldiers in Armory Square Hospital.

Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)

  • Creator(s): Tyrer, Patricia J.
Text:

Patricia J.TyrerKeller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839)Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt (b. 1839) A professional nurse

, Keller was employed to care for Whitman (1892), along with his personal nurse, Warren Fritzinger, during

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
Text:

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

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

His brother having been wounded in an early engagement, he went to the front to nurse him.

Whitman's aim was not to supplant but to suplement the doctors and nurses by giving aid which they had

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

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

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 (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

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

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

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

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

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

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

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

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

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

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

argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it, I sit quietly by, I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

a heroic opportunity indeed, and he used it like a hero, serving with passionate devotedness as a nurse

Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

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

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

aged black woman is “hardly human” and is desexualized like other aged black women he approved of as nurses

definite plans at that time, or for long afterwards; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing

(ww, 35) Bucke’s account depicts a family crisis as instigating Whitman’s wartime nursing.

Burroughs’s account of Whitman’s Civil War nursing is even more extravagant.

247, 249 movement, 307; and Calhoun, Civil War, 261, 364 76; and democracy, 42–46; and Civil War nursing

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

plain condition and probabilities, I told him by all means to get himself home to his old mother's nursing

Lewis K. Brown to Walt Whitman, 13–14 November 1863

  • Date: November 13–14, 1863
  • Creator(s): Lewis K. Brown
Text:

do quite with it as you told me. that is I did not take it to each one, but I took it to the lady nurse

Little Jane

  • Date: December 7, 1846
  • 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

Long Island

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

. — silent curious babes, little accustomed to crying or to any soft and tender nursing.— Transcribed

Longaker, Dr. Daniel (1858–1949)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

War hospital work and to blood poisoning acquired from gangrenous wounds of patients Whitman had nursed

Longaker paid frequent visits and provided various medications, which Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt

McAlister, his housekeeper Mary Oakes Davis, nurse Warren Fritzinger, and friends Thomas B.

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [4–5 December 1863]

  • Date: December 4–5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

i went again and marthe went he wanted her to come she was there nearly all day only came home to nurse

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1865]

  • Date: March 5, 1865
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

A thrill run through him and thought he was dying he was in the dark he cald called to one of the nurses

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5–6 May 1873]

  • Date: May 5–6, 1873
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

home sick the 1 of next month if you are able you must try to come on here lou s Lou's aunt goes to nurse

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1888

  • Date: October 1, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

been looking forward to as a happy reunion, was given over to anxiety & telegrams to doctors and nurses

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1890

  • Date: February 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

Journal on two cassettes (Audio Scholar), a spoken word Whitman autobiography describing his life as nurse

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The woman nurse in this Ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady nurses of other Wards.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Female Nurses for Soldiers.

Wright, of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]

  • Creator(s): Davis, Robert Leigh
Text:

of the American people—in a Massachusetts soldier returning from Andersonville, in an Armory Square nurse

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