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

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

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

Howard's sister Sallie is very sick, I think typhoid fever, & I have been out to-day trying to get a nurse

common simples of domestic practice; and the third class he left to the common-sense management of the nurses

big chair by the fire, the stove—it is sharp & cold, bright & sunny—Ed Wilkins (my young Kanuck, my nurse

season, or put it aside altogether—I suppose Edward Wilkins will be here to-morrow—Mr M, my present nurse

have a good strong tight cane chair & get out in it almost every day —propell'd by my stout young man nurse

we can—most likely profit by them—As I sit here alone, in my big old 2d story room "den," my young nurse

wounded men bound for the hospitals in Washington, D.C., where he took up residence and continued to nurse

in a visit he made to Brooklyn shortly before his brother's death, but he was back in Washington nursing

The two men met early in 1863 while Whitman was nursing Sawyer's friend Lewy Brown, and soon Whitman

forlorn Whitman, one reduced to a few short lines written at brief intervals as he continues his labors nursing

stand a great deal, without damage—including panegoric, close muffling of the face, candies, over-nursing

friends from seeing me)—& for a month or so I was in a horrible plight—a nuisance to myself & all—but my nurse

I should like to have been with you so I could have nursed you back to health & strength, but if you

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

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

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

In the MS., (my portion) where I had written simply "Whitman's nurse, Edward Wilkins"—he suggested "Whitman's

Canadian friend and nurse"—an admirable change, removing the servility implied by the first phrase.

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.

s together, finding the nurses together busily engaged changing W. and the bed.

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

indicates an indictment of Longfellow, who had continued to write sentimental verse while Whitman was nursing

Whitman discovers a way to give eternal meaning to that slaughter of young men, many of whom he had nursed

As to a new nurse, W., "We're all hoping it will be the right man."

speak of a letter he had just received from a western man, now prosperous, who had as a soldier been nursed

Nurse was fixing bed. W. awake. She saw me in the doorway and said to W., "Here is Mr. Traubel."

His disease of course makes Andrew fretful and discouraged, and instead of soothing and nursing him Nancy

—He also gave my nurse each night instructions that at the end of each 2 hours, I should take a milk

He is carefully attended by a male nurse, sent by his friend Dr. Bucke of London, Ont.

The nurse is a strong and sympathetic young Canadian, and the expense is met by a number of Whitman's

Camden teacher and Whitman's friend, who insisted on the photos] and Ed: W [Ed Wilkins, Whitman's nurse

I have nursed her in sickness, made every thing as agreeable and convenient as possible for her household

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

badly—but I keep fair spirits & suppose mentality & (as before written) fair appetite & sleep—have a good nurse

He came out of the war poor, after having nearly exhausted his vitality in nursing soldiers in the hospitals

Nature supplied the place of a bride, with suffering to be nursed and scenes to be poetically clothed

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

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

He boasted to one of his younger correspondents, a soldier he had nursed during the war years, that he

shall have my daily rubbing—a first-rate, vigorous, massage—by my young friend here"—he will never say nurse

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

let him have one of her rooms upstairs for him to sleep in and I intended to see if he could not be nursed

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am his sole & only nurse, & help to dress, undress & bathe him, & he is under no restraint to say how

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