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Sunday, December 27, 1891

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

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?

Sunday, December 20, 1891

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

"Warrie is a very faithful nurse, Doctor. He is very insistent.

'Song of the Exposition' [1871]

  • Creator(s): Wolfe, Karen
Text:

Section seven is one of the better sections, in which Whitman's years spent nursing wounded Civil War

Song of the Exposition.

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

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song of the Exposition.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cross-cut,) To cultivate a turn for carpentering, plastering, painting, To work as tailor, tailoress, nurse

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • 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

Song for All Seas, All Ships.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Some Fact-Romances

  • Date: December 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

She had employment from a number of families, who hired her at intervals to cook, nurse, and wash for

The Soldiers

  • Date: 6 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

B ILLINGS , Nurse Billings was Rose M.

Billing (no "s"), who served as a nurse from 1861 through the end of 1864.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT FEMALE NURSES FOR SOLDIERS.

W RIGHT , of Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, is one of those good nurses.

There are plenty of excellent clean old black women that would make tip-top nurses.

Selected Letters of Whitman

  • Date: 1990
  • Creator(s): Miller, Edwin Haviland
Text:

Although he was nei ther doctor nor nurse, he took care of needs beyond the reach of medicine, and he

called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses, had him bathed in spirits, gave him lumps

Doyle and Eldridge alternated as nurses, attending him day and night.

Davis could provide, there was a procession of male companions or nurses.

Baker, after serving briefly as one of Whitman's nurses, left to complete a medical degree. 66.

Sawyer, Thomas P. (b. ca. 1843)

  • Creator(s): Kantrowitz, Arnie
Text:

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

Saturday, October 13th, 1888.

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

I explained: "The same people who put the nurse here." He was touched deeply. "And who are they?"

Saturday, May 9, 1891

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

expected to be so utterly worn out as I am, after I, in some measure, recovered from the exhaustion of nursing

Saturday, March 5, 1892

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

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.

Saturday, March 12, 1892

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

Have you two nurses now?

Saturday, June 9, 1888.

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

Bucke approached W. on the subject of a nurse.

You fellows have about convinced me that I should have a nurse.

Saturday, June 27, 1891

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

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

Saturday, July 28, 1888.

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

sentries at the gates and in the passages &c,—and a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women and men nurses

mosquito curtains—all is quite still—an occasional sigh or groan—up in the middle of the ward the lady nurse

Saturday, July 14, 1888.

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

There is to be a change of nurses tomorrow. Baker will go.

Saturday, July 11, 1891

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

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

Saturday, January 23, 1892

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

reported his state "only so-so," and contended that his day had been "spent poorly—poorly," though the nurse

Saturday, January 2, 1892

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

.: "The nurse thinks you have had an easier day." W.: "I don't know—I don't know.

Saturday, February 6, 1892

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

(By the way, doctors and nurses and W. seem only to guess what may cause this soreness—no one makes any

Saturday, February 2, 1889

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

And he added: "I don't seem to be a hospital person: I rebel against the idea of being nursed, cared

Saturday, December 22, 1888

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

they call it The Other Side of the War: it is written by Katharine Wormeley: I think she must be a nurse

Saturday, December 15, 1888.

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

His nurse, Wilkins, said Mr.

Saturday, December 13, 1890

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

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

Saturday, April 27, 1889

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

would be much gained by making such a change, I am well aware—the best doctors, surgeons, rooms, nursing

Robert Underwood Johnson to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1884

  • Date: July 12, 1884
  • Creator(s): Robert Underwood Johnson
Text:

Gilder's request I write to ask if you would not write us a short, comprehensive paper on Hospital Nursing

Richard Watson Gilder to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1884

  • Date: August 9, 1884
  • Creator(s): Richard Watson Gilder
Text:

Whitman, I am glad you can do the nursing article.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1890

  • Date: January 25, 1890
  • Creator(s): richard Maurice Bucke | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

In a good hospital you would be surrounded by absolutely capable attendants (doctors and nurses) and

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1888

  • Date: October 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I do not hear good accounts of your present nurse (Musgrove) and I have just written to Horace about

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 December 1889

  • Date: December 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I am well pleased that you like your present nurse so well and hope he will stick to you and to the massage

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

him every day now—I am heartily glad you like Dr Walsh —I think you are well off as to doctors and nurse

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1888

  • Date: December 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

away to see you and stay a little with you—but you have good doctors and I am glad to think, a good nurse

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 July 1888

  • Date: July 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I am glad to think you are well enough to get on without a regular nurse but however well you get you

Review of Specimen Days and Collect

  • Date: 14 October 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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
Text:

pioneer in the backwoods, a tramway conductor in New York, a soldier in the great civil war, a hospital nurse

Review of Drum-Taps

  • Date: 24 February 1866
  • Creator(s): Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin
Text:

He has tenderly cared for the wounded, nursed the sick, consoled the dying and buried the dead.

Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: July and August 1845
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

"Return of the Heroes, The" (1867)

  • Creator(s): Freund, Julian B.
Text:

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

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

  • Date: 2005
  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

in hospitals becoming words, occasionally literally stained by the blood of the young men he was nursing

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: Memories, Letters, Etc.

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

referring to his nurse, "Warry," as his sailor boy, he said that he had been of great service to him

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, "Warry, shift," the pain in his side

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Davis, and the nurses.

About twenty minutes before his death he whispered to his nurse, " Warry, shift,''he pain in hisside

Wilkins days ETC. 01 MEMORIES, LETTERS, has my young Kanuck, my nurse and helper Dr.

Horace [Traubel] and my nurse Ed. have gone prospecting to Phila :for a suitableout-door chairfor me

My ypung nurse isdown stairslearning his fiddle lesson. Sun shining out to-day. '90.

Reminiscences of Walt Whitman

  • Date: February 1902
  • Creator(s): John Townsend Trowbridge
Text:

for three years and a half: meanwhile the Civil War was raging, and in 1862 he went to the front, to nurse

the wards a few fruits and delicacies, which he distributed with the approval of the surgeons and nurses

The Reformed

  • Date: November 17, 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sickness of our good little sister; and each time, it proves to be nothing worse than some whim of the nurse

"Reconciliation" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Mason-Browne, N.J.
Text:

war poems.The text evokes a small, wartime scene of the sort which Whitman, in his capacity as a nurse's

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic?

A Poet's Western Visit

  • Date: 15 November 1879
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

the thickest of that time and amid all its turmoils and suspense, night and day with his own hands nursing

The Poet Laureate as Philosopher and Peer

  • Date: After February 1, 1884; 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Stevens Salt | Ernest Radford
Text:

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

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