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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, 18–[19] October 1889

  • Date: October 18–[19], 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the third day—A young rather green fellow, Charles Sterrit, came over here as candidate for my new 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, 18–[19] January 1890

  • Date: January 18–[19], 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

all—bladder business troublesome at night—am sitting here in my den alone as usual by the stove—my 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 February 1889

  • Date: February 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wanted, all ab't, mainly & detailedly O'C's condition & every thing relating to him —(a good strong man nurse

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 & the answer is William does not want one, & is not ready yet,

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12 November 1889

  • Date: November 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in the Nov. sun—find my head & bodily strength pretty low yet (no improvement)—I like my sailor boy 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 Peter Doyle, 14 July 1871

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

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

Walt Whitman to N. M. and John B. Pratt, 10 June 1865

  • Date: June 10, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Alfred has good accommodations where he is, & a good doctor, & nursing—so you must not worry about him

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 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 Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 10 February 1890

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

America Feb: 10 '90 — It is near sunset after a bright winter day & I am waiting for my supper—my young nurse

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

  • Date: October 4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.—& 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

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

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 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 Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 15 March 1864

  • Date: March 15, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

wish to hear about them—every one is so unfeeling, it has got to be an old story—there is no good nursing—O

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 October 1863

  • Date: October 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dirty & torn, & many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 May 1863

  • Date: May 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

him—Mother, such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses

Walt Whitman to Lewis K. Brown, 8–9 November 1863

  • Date: November 8–9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

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 John Townsend Trowbridge, 6 February 1865

  • Date: February 6, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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

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 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 Hannah Whitman Heyde, 3 October 1891

  • Date: October 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

D sick quite badly—neuralgia—Warry my nurse is helpful & good—of course I am up now & sitting by the

Walt Whitman to George Ferguson, 22 May 1891

  • Date: May 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Respectfully Walt Whitman This is Warren Fritzinger, my nurse & friend— Walt Whitman to George Ferguson

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 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 Edward Wilkins, 30 September 1891

  • Date: September 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Doughty & Maggie well—Warry still my nurse & satisfactory—Horace Traubel married & well—faithful as ever—So

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, 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 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 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 David L. Lezinsky, 28 October 1890

  • Date: October 28, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Davis, my housekeeper, is well—She has been off to Kansas & Colorado on a jaunt—Warren Fritzinger my 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 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 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, 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 an Unidentified Correspondent, [August(?) 1881]

  • Date: August 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

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: The Poet Chats on the Haps and Mishaps of Life

  • Date: 3 March 1880
  • Creator(s): Issac R. Pennypacker
Text:

How he went down on the field in '61, and spent four years as a hard-working, unpaid army nurse, when

Walt Whitman: The Man

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): Thomas Donaldson
Text:

O Connor nursed thought. Mr. Whitman through hisfirststroke of paralysis. While Mr.

Whitman s friends in Phil adelphia, as tothe need of a nurse and as to Mr.

The nurse provided for Mr.

of the pain by nursing 206 THE MAN.

WHITMAN S LAST ILLNESS. 251 friendand nurse.

Walt Whitman: The Last Phase

  • Date: June 1909
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Leavitt Keller
Text:

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

Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

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

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

  • Date: November 1869
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

was his occupation until the outbreak of the great civil war in 1862, when he undertook the duty of nursing

As a hospital nurse, Whitman proved the nobleness of his nature by his untiring devotion to the sick

Walt Whitman: Prólogo para la sexta edición

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

El Memorándum acerca de “Las Escuelas de Nurses” en Londres (1908).

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

The memorandum on "The Schools for Nurses" in London (1908).

To allow Hispanic communities to be invaded like this, nursed as they are "on the difficult facility

Walt. Whitman: Interview with the Author of "Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): J. L. Payne
Text:

"You were also a nurse during the war," put in the reporter, by way of information to the venerable poet

I went to and fro among the wards as an independent nurse; on my hook, as the soldier said who laid behind

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