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Pensions had already been given to nurses, but somehow the project failed; possibly because Whitman had

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

Philadelphia to visit Whitman on July 15, 1890, and that evening photographed Whitman and his favorite nurse

Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse

When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse

Bolton, England, this photograph shows Whitman in his wheelchair, attended by his last and favorite nurse

When Warry’s parents died, Mary became his guardian, and she talked him into becoming Whitman’s nurse

Alcott had since visited him, perhaps in Washington, where Miss Alcott, like Whitman, was a hospital nurse

Walt Fredericksburg battle, started for the camp upon the Rappahannock, nursed hisbrother through, and

also the dire events of the great war, the very saddest aspects of which he daily studied his as a nurse

Then he comes to us as lover, consoler, physician, nurse ; most tender, fatherly, those about to the

smiles; And I have watch'd the death-hours of the and seen the infant old; die; The rich, with all his nurses

In 1862 he went to the war, and it was while acting as nurse of the wounded soldiers that he gained the

Whitman's activi ties as a nurse during the Civil War were described as an apostolate.

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

At the end of the war, it is said, he must have nursed with his own hands more than 100,000 sick and

6os, just after thLeaves had ap peared, he spent the Civil War on the battlefield and worked as a nurse

Walt came to the field hospital and tookpart in the war as nurse or actually more as comforter and, he

Marsh finds redemption for his guilty soul by nursing cholera victims in the "dirtiest and wretchedest

abandonments;' but in 1862, on the breaking out of the Civil War, he undertook the (gratuitous) service of nursing

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

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

He then repaired to the city of Washington, and devoted himself to nursing and conversing with the wounded

I get out into the air if nurse open every day, possible ; my [the young man I had seen downstairs] wheels

Nurses, with babies and little were about the and I children, sitting logs, enticed one bright littleboy

crowd on the wharf wait ing the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel and Whitman's nurse

She had the children to nurse and look after,and there was Gilchrist's book to see to.

own hand in my propp'd up bed, deadly weak yet, but the spark seems to glimmer yet the doctors & nurses

She had the children to nurse and look after, and there was Gilchrist's book to see to.

I get out into the open air every day, if possible; my nurse [the young man I had seen downstairs] wheels

Nurses, with babies and little children, were sitting about the logs, and I enticed one bright little

crowd on the wharf waiting the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel and Whitman's nurse

I went first of all from Brooklyn to Washington to nurse some of my friends.

There are cases, however, where "the doctor" and "the nurse" positively prohibit this fresh air; for

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

Nurse says W.'s bowels are open but much of the food passes through undigested.

I gave Ed a letter to Gould about a new nurse. Hard to secure!

this is essential, the crowning requisite) the physiological Leaves of Grass—the Leaves of Grass nursed

question had been to ask whether it was true that W. could not even rise without the assistance of a nurse

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

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

If I had known earlier I would have gone on to Los Angeles myself, to nurse the lad; but this seems unnecessary

Nurse told McKay, "You find him at his best," and Dave argues, "If that was the best, what is his worst

Yet was a bit stronger, too—could help in trifling [ways] when the nurse worked about or with him.Had

W. spoke kindly of the nurses and Mary Davis. Said all were "oh so good."

That his ideal for a nurse was a man. They—Dr. McAlister and Mr. W.

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

I never felt this so much as with nurses—how some have the nurse's gift.

W. don't think because I am a nurse you must eat when you do not wish to"—he replied, "You will find

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

Bucke suggests an additional nurse to relieve Warrie but Warrie resists.

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

Whitman,I am glad you can do the nursing article. Thanks for the Father Taylor.

He does not know how I am paying for the nurse. The "circle" is my own creation.

"All the day I have had simply to nurse myself against this utter deadness that presses me."

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

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

where for the next ten years (punctuated by trips back to Brooklyn) he lived and worked as volunteer nurse

During the Civil War, nursing was not the profession of today.

The Gelman Library, George Washington University Photograph of volunteer nurses.

Photograph of nurse Amanda Akin. Akin tolerated Whitman in person, but just barely.

Perhaps these nurses simply resented Whitman's constant presence in the hospital.

Harper, 1896), 169; Stearns, The Lady Nurse , 246; Whitman, , 1: 329. David S.

thesearticlessupportedasocialist-humanitarianand pacifistreadingofWhitman,andtheyshowedacontinuingadmirationfor the poet’s nursing

—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse

Claiming that he is "more than nurse," "more than parent or neighbor," Whitman approaches the reader,

nature of physical existence, a theme he was about to experience in all of its loathsome reality as he nursed

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

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

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

head close, and half- envelop half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse