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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 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

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 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

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

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26–27 June 1891

  • Date: June 26–27, 1891; June 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston | Unknown author
Text:

Yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace, representatives of the matrons, sisters and nurses of the

Lord Tennyson has written these lines in the first volume of his works:— Take, lady, what your loyal nurses

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

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

Mitchell paid fifteen dollars per month for the next two years to help cover the nursing costs.

Sawyer, a soldier he nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

Whitman was forty-two years old when he went into camp and hospital to nurse soldiers.

Hsu, “Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse,” 238. 174.

“Walt Whitman: An American Civil War Nurse Who Witnessed the Advent of Modern American Medicine.”

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 2)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

As I was going W. said: "I'm nursing up a surprise for you." "Good or bad?"

Had slept later than usual—to 11 from 9.30 last night, nurse said.

Sunday, July 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The new nurse, whose name is Musgrove, is an older man than Baker.

Monday July 16, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Change of nurses has something to do with this. Musgrove is a cloudy man. I asked how M. got on.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

Sunday, July 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Gilder had added underneath the headline: "By Walt Whitman, volunteer hospital nurse."

Monday July 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

Saturday, July 28, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

sentries at the gates and in the passages &c,—and a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women and men nurses

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

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 5)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.

They also presented him with a nurse's chair for his use about the house.

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

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

We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

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

There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

Wednesday, February 27, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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

Tuesday, March 12, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Then: "I was just saying the other day that Leaves of Grass could only be thoroughly understood by nurses

Thursday, March 14, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

remedies as their disease required, to say nothing of being exposed all annoyances and want of good nursing

Wednesday, March 20, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The talk got upon the nurse fund.

"Harlots and sinners—discredited persons, criminals: they should be my audience: women, doctors, nurses

Thursday, March 21, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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

Tuesday, March 26, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I told W. of a French nurse whose method of dealing with children had interested me.

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I showed him a card I had from Josephine Lazarus, who had come into my nurse fund.

Thursday, December 6, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

your hands: yet I would have you always lean to the side of mercy—don't oppress me with doctors, nurses

W.: "Yes, a bad form: it meant death, death: I nursed many a man down with diarrhæa."

it was very bad: we nursed him: I was there once, twice, often three times a day: posted the nurses,

It had occurred while no attendants were present— "cadets, nurses, doctors, me."

ago—the devilishly obstinate, illiterate boy he was: no one could do anything with him: doctors, nurses

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

early years: teaching, loafing, working on the newspapers: traveling: then in Washington—clerking, nursing

Saturday, December 22, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

they call it The Other Side of the War: it is written by Katharine Wormeley: I think she must be a nurse

Tuesday, December 25, 1888

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

the door there unassisted—must help myself with a chair, the table, anything—sometimes calling the nurse

Wednesday, December 26, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"I think you are well off as to doctors and nurses now—Osler, Walsh and Wilkins—it is a strong team and

reached over quietly and took my hand: "Not to speak of you, Horace, who are worth all the doctors and nurses

Thursday, December 27, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Bucke, Osler, Wharton and Walsh, and a good nurse, Edward Wilkins, a young, strong Canadian.

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