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Walt Whitman

  • Date: 28 June 1885
  • Creator(s): William H. Ballou
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Nature supplied the place of bride with suffering to be nursed and scenes to be poetically clothed.

The Poet Laureate as Philosopher and Peer

  • Date: After February 1, 1884; 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Stevens Salt | Ernest Radford
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surgery-schools of France, and addicted to the worst practices of vivisection, who roughly informs the hospital nurse

residence; or Leoline, in "Aylmer's Field," committing suicide on the news of Edith's death; or the nurse

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, [20 December 1884]

  • Date: December 20, 1884
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
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institution however is a place that many have preferred to be taken to, in sickness: where perfect trained nurses

I have nursed Han though many very bad, very hard physical disorders, typhoid, Erysipilas Erysipelas

Richard Watson Gilder to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1884

  • Date: August 9, 1884
  • Creator(s): Richard Watson Gilder
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Whitman, I am glad you can do the nursing article.

Walt Whitman to Robert Underwood Johnson, 4 August 1884

  • Date: August 4, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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request a few days ago Yes I will gladly write for the Century an article on the Hospitals & Hospital Nursing

Robert Underwood Johnson to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1884

  • Date: July 12, 1884
  • Creator(s): Robert Underwood Johnson
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Gilder's request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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definite plans at that time, or forlong afterwards ; but attention to the Brooklyn friends led to nursing

He did the things forthem which no nurse or doctor could do, and he seemed toleave a benediction at every

You wrote about Emma, her tliinkingshe might and ought to come as nurse for thesoldiers.

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

which isthe chief literaryglory of our country in the capitals of Europe — the book of the good gray nurse

All About Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 November 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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Whitman did good service as nurse and attendant in those trying days, and relates scores of pathetic

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 14 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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be found in these random and fugitive papers, some of them recording his experiences as a hospital nurse

Review of Leaves of Grass (1881–82)

  • Date: 21 March 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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pioneer in the backwoods, a tramway conductor in New York, a soldier in the great civil war, a hospital nurse

Walt Whitman's Claim to Be Considered a Great Poet

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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During his life he has worked as printer, carpenter, school-teacher, army-nurse, and clerk in the office

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [August(?) 1881]

  • Date: August 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

"The Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 24 August 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1881

  • Date: February 16, 1881
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Dear Giddy has been such an indefatigable & capital nurse & housekeeper!

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

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

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

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1881)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

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

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

Our Old Feuillage.

  • 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

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

First O Songs for a Prelude.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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determin'd arming, The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines, The women volunteering for nurses

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations, Suckled by thee, old husky nurse

To One Shortly to Die.

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

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

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

Walt Whitman: A Chat With the "Good Gray Poet"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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In 1862 he went to the war, and it was while acting as nurse of the wounded soldiers that he gained the

Walt Whitman: The Poet Chats on the Haps and Mishaps of Life

  • Date: 3 March 1880
  • Creator(s): Issac R. Pennypacker
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How he went down on the field in '61, and spent four years as a hard-working, unpaid army nurse, when

A Poet's Western Visit

  • Date: 15 November 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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the thickest of that time and amid all its turmoils and suspense, night and day with his own hands nursing

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
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whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing

Beatrice Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 12 August 1878

  • Date: August 12, 1878
  • Creator(s): Beatrice Gilchrist
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Berlin), all the students, & superintendent of nurses.

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

The number of visits depending on the need & the competency of the nurse.

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
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which is the chief literary glory of our country in the capitals of Europe—the book of the good gray nurse

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
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Alcott had since visited him, perhaps in Washington, where Miss Alcott, like Whitman, was a hospital nurse

Thérèse C. Simpson and Elizabeth J. Scott Moncrieff to Walt Whitman, 30 March 1876

  • Date: March 30, 1876
  • Creator(s): Thérèse C. Simpson and Elizabeth J. Scott Moncrieff
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is so painful to us to hear of so dear a friend being in trouble, we sh.d should like to go over & nurse

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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hospitals that as long as there is any chance for a man, no matter how bad he may be, the surgeon and nurses

As you advance through the dusk of early candle-light a nurse will step forth on tip-toe, and silently

If it is a case where stimulus is any relief, the nurse gives milk-punch or brandy, or whatever is wanted

." a general ice-cream treat, purchasing a large quantity, and, under convoy of the doctor or head nurse

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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confidence and love between us, welded by sickness, pain of wounds, and little daily, nightly offices of nursing

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 31 January [1873]

  • Date: January 31, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter Doyle are regular still, helping & lifting & nursing

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 14 July 1871

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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received your two letters, & was glad to get them— —Mother has been quite sick, & I have been sort of nurse

Walt Whitman to Charles Hine, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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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 William D. O'Connor, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Mother has had an attack of illness, somewhat severe, the last few days—& I have been sort of nurse &

American Feuillage.

  • 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

Drum-Taps.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

; 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

Cluster: Drum-Taps. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

; The hospital service—the lint, bandages, and medi- cines medicines ; The women volunteering for nurses—the

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

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

The Carpenter

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

"Nursing the Union soldiers?" "Union and rebel," was the answer.

I nursed him in the hospital."

Our good friend here nursed us both, like our own mother.

times of marriage, the cradle by the fire-lit hearth, the infant's dimpled hand caressing the white nursing

"I nursed them both together in the hospital," he resumed, in a gentler strain.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 4 July 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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abandonments;' but in 1862, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he undertook the (gratuitous) service of nursing

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: 17 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Kent, William Charles Mark
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was in charge of nursing in the military hospitals at Scutari, Turkey

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 17 January 1868

  • Date: January 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
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get away tomorrow but hope to— We had quite a pleasant time in coming on—Mrs Rice —(with child and nurse

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master about a new case.

He was nurse at the time to a number of soldiers, badly wounded in the late battles, and whose wounds

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, June 1867

  • Date: June 1867
  • Creator(s): Charles Hyde | Charles Heyde
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I have nursed her in sickness, made every thing as agreeable and convenient as possible for her household

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