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Sunday, June 10, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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We all agreed that a nurse should be secured at once.

Bucke went over with Osler, designing to bring a nurse back with him. I went to W.'

Bucke arrived an hour later, bringing a young doctor named Baker as nurse.

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

He was still clear about the courtesies for he said to me: "Of course the nurse knows that my objection

Monday, June 11, 1888.

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

Monday, June 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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B. at one point spoke of the circular for contributions for keeping a nurse in the house for W.

Wednesday, April 11, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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speak of a letter he had just received from a western man, now prosperous, who had as a soldier been nursed

Monday, April 23, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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that he is not wanted, that his room is better than his company, that he has a good heart—that he can nurse

Saturday, July 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 9)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Seems to be a professional nurse.

The nurse had left her daily notes for me. The air tranquil.

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

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

Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

Thursday, February 25, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yet the nurses tell me he does help them markedly when they move him and that last night he even threw

Saturday, March 5, 1892

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

Sunday, March 6, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Davis would become nurse, pairing with Warrie. "I don't see what a skilled nurse can do just now."

Everything properly belonged in his hands—nurses, doctors, etc.Received today Johnston's letter of 27th

Wednesday, March 9, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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any indications he might give—try to be on hand yourself—and to make sure speak quietly to the new nurse

Saturday, March 12, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Have you two nurses now?

Wednesday, March 16, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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always fed—cannot wield knife and fork and even tires using his fingers, as I have seen him do, the nurse

Friday, March 18, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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enclose my notes.I think the attendants are quite faithful and competent to do all that more skilled nursing

Sunday, March 20, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Takes all the nursing with great patience—yet now and then seems provoked, as when, for instance, he

Monday, January 18, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Tell him, Horace, that I am well-looked after—that I am satisfied everything is done for me—doctors, nurses

Tuesday, January 19, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Yet was a bit stronger, too—could help in trifling [ways] when the nurse worked about or with him.Had

Saturday, January 23, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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reported his state "only so-so," and contended that his day had been "spent poorly—poorly," though the nurse

Monday, January 25, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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s together, finding the nurses together busily engaged changing W. and the bed.

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

Tuesday, January 26, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Nurse told McKay, "You find him at his best," and Dave argues, "If that was the best, what is his worst

Monday, February 1, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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To see Childs, too, and considerable talk with him anent nurse at W.'s and W.'s affairs generally.

Friday, February 5, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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He is watched day and night by nurses who never quit him together; and his young friend Mr.

Saturday, February 6, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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(By the way, doctors and nurses and W. seem only to guess what may cause this soreness—no one makes any

Friday, February 12, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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work here finished & completed,—but yet not so far removed from us after all.Glad that he has a good nurse

Friday, February 19, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Does the nurse use the flesh brush on Walt?

Tuesday, November 10, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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question had been to ask whether it was true that W. could not even rise without the assistance of a nurse

Sunday, November 15, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Ingersoll was there at Croton day after day—nursing, inspiring, a very mother of mercy and good will.

Monday, November 23, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Evidently nursing the rather diminutive flame, which soon, however, blazed up and induced him to go back

Monday, November 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Seems to be a professional nurse.

Wrote on the back of his card, also sent, that if W. needed a nurse he ventured to offer himself.

Sunday, December 20, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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"Warrie is a very faithful nurse, Doctor. He is very insistent.

Monday, December 21, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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His physicians have told him of his exact condition, but he pleasantly said to his nurse, "We may beat

Tuesday, December 22, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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Bucke suggests an additional nurse to relieve Warrie but Warrie resists.

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
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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

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