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Tuesday, November 12, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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this is essential, the crowning requisite) the physiological Leaves of Grass—the Leaves of Grass nursed

Wednesday, November 13, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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s health—asked him if he did not feel better than a year ago—W. only responding: "I have a good nurse

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 4)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Monday, January 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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have spent a summer with him at the Asylum—on the farm: till you meet the doctors, the patients, the nurses

Tuesday, January 29, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

Thursday, January 31, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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where, for what: but Mary Davis talked with him: she knows much about that peculiar disease, having nursed

Saturday, February 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

Wednesday, February 6, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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during the War to whom justice has never been done—the telegraph boys, the cadet physicians, the nurses

Sunday, February 17, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

Thursday, February 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He's a surgeon, Horace, you notice: you remember what I've always said: surgeons, mothers, nurses—they

Thursday, August 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Monday, August 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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mind and after all wrote a dozen lines or so, which I have just sent up to the post office by the nurse

Friday, August 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Whitman fund—am trying to get a small monthly guarantee each from a group of people to pay for the nurse

He knows the nurse is put here by his friends. I have not explained anything to him in detail.

Tuesday, August 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He does not know how I am paying for the nurse. The "circle" is my own creation.

Wednesday, August 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Nurse said he stayed up unusually late last evening. Generally turns in about ten.

Tuesday, August 28, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Whitman,I am glad you can do the nursing article. Thanks for the Father Taylor.

Wednesday, August 29, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Gilder's request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Saturday, June 9, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

Sunday, June 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

Bucke went over with Osler, designing to bring a nurse back with him. I went to W.'

Bucke arrived an hour later, bringing a young doctor named Baker as nurse.

He also objected to having the nurse sleep there in the room with him.

He was still clear about the courtesies for he said to me: "Of course the nurse knows that my objection

Monday, June 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Donaldson came to consult with Bucke about a nurse circular but missed Bucke.

"I think he is mending," said Baker: "he is less confused—he helps his nurse: he ought to show a decided

Monday, June 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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B. at one point spoke of the circular for contributions for keeping a nurse in the house for W.

Wednesday, April 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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speak of a letter he had just received from a western man, now prosperous, who had as a soldier been nursed

Monday, April 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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that he is not wanted, that his room is better than his company, that he has a good heart—that he can nurse

Saturday, July 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 9)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Seems to be a professional nurse.

The nurse had left her daily notes for me. The air tranquil.

—had some conversations on nurses, nursing and the care of the sick. Mr.

But best of all is the careful nursing, Doctor."

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

Thursday, February 25, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yet the nurses tell me he does help them markedly when they move him and that last night he even threw

Saturday, March 5, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Davis pair off nursing and put a girl in the kitchen, that I shall submit this to Longaker and if he

objects we will respect his objection and get a skilled nurse again to succeed Mrs.

Sunday, March 6, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Davis would become nurse, pairing with Warrie. "I don't see what a skilled nurse can do just now."

Everything properly belonged in his hands—nurses, doctors, etc.Received today Johnston's letter of 27th

Wednesday, March 9, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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any indications he might give—try to be on hand yourself—and to make sure speak quietly to the new nurse

Saturday, March 12, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Have you two nurses now?

Wednesday, March 16, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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always fed—cannot wield knife and fork and even tires using his fingers, as I have seen him do, the nurse

Friday, March 18, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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enclose my notes.I think the attendants are quite faithful and competent to do all that more skilled nursing

Sunday, March 20, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Takes all the nursing with great patience—yet now and then seems provoked, as when, for instance, he

Monday, January 18, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Tell him, Horace, that I am well-looked after—that I am satisfied everything is done for me—doctors, nurses

Tuesday, January 19, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yet was a bit stronger, too—could help in trifling [ways] when the nurse worked about or with him.Had

Saturday, January 23, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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reported his state "only so-so," and contended that his day had been "spent poorly—poorly," though the nurse

Monday, January 25, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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s together, finding the nurses together busily engaged changing W. and the bed.

But best of all is the careful nursing, Doctor."

Tuesday, January 26, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Nurse told McKay, "You find him at his best," and Dave argues, "If that was the best, what is his worst

Monday, February 1, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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To see Childs, too, and considerable talk with him anent nurse at W.'s and W.'s affairs generally.

Friday, February 5, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He is watched day and night by nurses who never quit him together; and his young friend Mr.

Saturday, February 6, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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(By the way, doctors and nurses and W. seem only to guess what may cause this soreness—no one makes any

Friday, February 12, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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work here finished & completed,—but yet not so far removed from us after all.Glad that he has a good nurse

Friday, February 19, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

Tuesday, November 10, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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question had been to ask whether it was true that W. could not even rise without the assistance of a nurse

Sunday, November 15, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Ingersoll was there at Croton day after day—nursing, inspiring, a very mother of mercy and good will.

Monday, November 23, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Evidently nursing the rather diminutive flame, which soon, however, blazed up and induced him to go back

Monday, November 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Seems to be a professional nurse.

Wrote on the back of his card, also sent, that if W. needed a nurse he ventured to offer himself.

Sunday, December 20, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Warrie is a very faithful nurse, Doctor. He is very insistent.

Monday, December 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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His physicians have told him of his exact condition, but he pleasantly said to his nurse, "We may beat

Tuesday, December 22, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke suggests an additional nurse to relieve Warrie but Warrie resists.

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