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Friday, December 25, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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.: "Doctor says I ain't a good nurse." "In what respect?""In letting you go without the medicine.""

Sunday, December 27, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke broached the idea of a second nurse to W., who at first resisted then yielded.

We arranged at Harned's for the care and pay of the new nurse. Would it be made a Camden fund?

Monday, December 28, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Now in search of a professional nurse (wants a woman).The Johnston-Wallace cable yesterday was simply

He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman, but told Doctor after introduction, "I feel I

But I guess doctors and nurses learn to bear with the poor sick human critter."

I went to see Warrie, who said W. had spoken to him to effect that he had rather the new nurse had been

Nurse was to start this evening to relieve Warrie.Bucke now came up, and he and I went into W.'

Tuesday, December 29, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. don't think because I am a nurse you must eat when you do not wish to"—he replied, "You will find

Thursday, December 31, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Nurse was fixing bed. W. awake. She saw me in the doorway and said to W., "Here is Mr. Traubel."

Friday, January 1, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Nurse speaks of his extreme and growing weakness. "I can notice a change in two days."

I went up and talked with the nurse and she advised me to bring J. up immediately—which I did.

Saturday, January 2, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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.: "The nurse thinks you have had an easier day." W.: "I don't know—I don't know.

Sunday, January 10, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The nurse had left her daily notes for me. The air tranquil.

Tuesday, January 12, 1892

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

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 3)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Had the new nurse turned up yet? W. laughed.

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

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Talked of nurses. "After all the best nurses are women—at the last the women are always called in.

But "the ideal nurse is yet to come."

Thursday, November 1, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke's letter of the thirtieth to me, in which he said on the nurse question: "Still you say nothing

We have not given him any details of the fund which puts the nurse in the house, but he knows of it in

Friday, November 2, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke said this about the change in nurses: "Horace tells me that Musgrove is to leave on Sunday or Monday

Monday, November 5, 1888.

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

Had the new nurse turned up yet? W. laughed.

Sunday, November 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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sick a family who knew him—Eames by name—Judge Eames, we called him (a lawyer)—took him in, got him a nurse

Thursday, November 15, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 7)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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She described interestingly visit paid to W. at time Musgrove was nurse—how Musgrove interfered—tried

s nurse etc. etc.

He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

>Discursively discussed nurses.

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

Wednesday, September 17, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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chair she had an almost irresistible impulse to rush out of the house and pitch him, chair, man and nurse

Monday, October 6, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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impulse—that so astonished Warren (she is a large, good woman, too) to rush out and pitch me, chair and nurse

Monday, October 27, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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afternoon at two he lectured some students, coming out from the city, with a number of his own girls: nurses

Wednesday, May 28, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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There are none too many massagers, as I call them—especially male massagers,—nor good male nurses, for

Friday, January 31, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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written 22d. inst.) containing the following passage: "If I had a good hospital well conducted—some good nurse—to

Wednesday, March 26, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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shall have my daily rubbing—a first-rate, vigorous, massage—by my young friend here"—he will never say nurse

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 8)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"All the day I have had simply to nurse myself against this utter deadness that presses me."

The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

Has nurses and all done for him that can be.

What's more, he had no nurse about him—nobody at all.

All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

Saturday, June 27, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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W. said with great earnestness and feeling, "To women—to nurses, doctors—I look for the best final understanding

the wonders in wonders of that life in Washington—the women nurses there—the hospitals—all that seemed

Monday, July 6, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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downstairs" rooms at six o'clock in the evening; then Whitman came down from his bedroom, assisted by his nurse

Saturday, July 11, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

Tuesday, April 28, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"All the day I have had simply to nurse myself against this utter deadness that presses me."

Sunday, December 7, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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She described interestingly visit paid to W. at time Musgrove was nurse—how Musgrove interfered—tried

s nurse etc. etc.

Thursday, December 11, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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when Ingersoll said "Let Walt have it" and it was done, I knew we would still have to pay for the nurse

Saturday, December 13, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He yet lives in his cottage, with housekeeper and nurse, in Mickle street, Camden, New Jersey, retains

Wednesday, January 7, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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>Discursively discussed nurses.

W. thought, "They seem impossible to our time—certainly to America—the true nurse must be a male: that

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh! that is very esential.

Saturday, May 9, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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expected to be so utterly worn out as I am, after I, in some measure, recovered from the exhaustion of nursing

Thursday, August 27, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Has nurses and all done for him that can be.

Friday, September 4, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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They said he was in permanent charge of a nurse, who went with him wherever he happened to be; even intimated

What's more, he had no nurse about him—nobody at all.

Wednesday, September 9, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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All it tells is, that when he was in Florence Addington had such a man—a nurse, a Warrie.

Thursday, September 17, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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And thanks to the careful nursing of my dear wife, and the pure and healthful air of the mountains, my

Drum-Taps

  • Date: 11 November 1865
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
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One imagines that burly tenderness of the man who went to supply the "——lack of woman's nursing" that

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 Talk with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): J. Alfred Stoddart
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Type-setting, carpentering, editing, army nursing, all these resulted in my love for humanity and sympathy

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. Jonston, M.D. | J. W. Wallace
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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

Walt. Whitman: Interview with the Author of "Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 5 June 1880
  • Creator(s): J. L. Payne
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"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

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: First Visit to Camden, September 8th and 9th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): J. W. Wallace
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crowd on the wharf waiting the arrival of the ship, and with him were Horace Traubel and Whitman's nurse

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden, October 15th to 24th

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston | J. W. Wallace
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She had the children to nurse and look after, and there was Gilchrist's book to see to.

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 5 May 1863

  • Date: May 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
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reproductive organs, and, somehow, it wd seem to be the result of their logic—that eunuchs only are fit for nurses

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Jerome M. Loving
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fight (and perhaps lacking the inclination to bear arms), he began his service as a psychological nurse

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

Walt Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1893
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
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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

Whitman: A Study

  • Date: 1902
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
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The same old rains and the same old sun and nursed dews, soil, it,yet in so many ways how novel and strange

depletion, energies. farm boy, then a school-teacher, then a printer,ed itor,writer, traveler, mechanic, nurse

He did the for them no nurse or doctor things could do, and he seemed to leave a benediction at every

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

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 23 September 1890

  • Date: September 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
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being whisked over here in two hours, then after three days good solid rest, with Mrs Davis & your nurse

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

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

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