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Monday, October 27, 1890

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

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

"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
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

Monday, July 6, 1891

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

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
Text:

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

Tuesday, April 28, 1891

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

"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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

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
Text:

And thanks to the careful nursing of my dear wife, and the pure and healthful air of the mountains, my

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1862

  • Date: December 19, 1862
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

bring George home with you and how nicely we would establish him in our front room with Mat as chief nurse

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1863

  • Date: September 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 17 January 1868

  • Date: January 17, 1868
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

get away tomorrow but hope to— We had quite a pleasant time in coming on—Mrs Rice —(with child and nurse

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1863

  • Date: October 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman: The Man

  • Date: 1896
  • Creator(s): Thomas Donaldson
Text:

O Connor nursed thought. Mr. Whitman through hisfirststroke of paralysis. While Mr.

Whitman s friends in Phil adelphia, as tothe need of a nurse and as to Mr.

The nurse provided for Mr.

of the pain by nursing 206 THE MAN.

WHITMAN S LAST ILLNESS. 251 friendand nurse.

Thérèse C. Simpson and Elizabeth J. Scott Moncrieff to Walt Whitman, 30 March 1876

  • Date: March 30, 1876
  • Creator(s): Thérèse C. Simpson and Elizabeth J. Scott Moncrieff
Text:

is so painful to us to hear of so dear a friend being in trouble, we sh.d should like to go over & nurse

Walt Whitman in Boston

  • Date: August 1892
  • Creator(s): Sylvester Baxter
Text:

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

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1889

  • Date: August 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1889

  • Date: September 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

Its A pleasure to know that you are comfortable—am glad to know that Mrs D & the nurse are kind I hope

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
Text:

whose son died in hospital:— Frank, as far as I saw, had everything requisite in surgical treatment, nursing

Whitman in Russia

  • Creator(s): Stephen Stepanchev
Text:

This spark of the creatively progressive was one that he fanned and nursed; and if his system the result

“This Mighty Convlusion”: Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

  • Date: 2019
  • Creator(s): Sten, Christopher | Hoffman, Tyler
Text:

Immediately after, he moved to Washington, where he took on the role of a volunteer day nurse, visiting

The speaker then describes “The women volunteering for nurses—the work begun for, in earnest—no mere

So for the next three years, he volunteered his services as a nurse, swapping out ban dages, comforting

time-space oftherecruitmentpoems(“Drum-Taps,”“FirstOSongsforaPrelude”) and in thevivid memories ofaged nurses

in the structure of historical time, we gaze at the stars.Or wewait, or we march.Or we see Whitman nursing

Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
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Mary Oakes had a long history of nursing the ill and elderly.

Davis's strongest defender is Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, who portrays Davis as selflessly

Longaker, Dr. Daniel (1858–1949)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
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War hospital work and to blood poisoning acquired from gangrenous wounds of patients Whitman had nursed

Longaker paid frequent visits and provided various medications, which Whitman's nurse, Elizabeth Leavitt

McAlister, his housekeeper Mary Oakes Davis, nurse Warren Fritzinger, and friends Thomas B.

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

He does not know how I am paying for the nurse.”

Pessimist: Nurse Keller “He was rather disappointed that the nurse was a woman,” Traubel reported of

He had nursed her husband in the hospital at Washington.”

This was his first specification of what form a nurse should take.

A man to nurse me, not one I must nurse. Oh, that is very essential.”

Conserving Walt Whitman’s Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel’s Conservator, 1890-1919

  • Date: 2006
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

His devotion as a volunteer nurse in the Civil War needsnorepetition,andhispoetryofthatperiodisanenduringpartofourpa

Let dead hearts tarry, and trade and marry, And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth, While we, the

During the War Whitman gave his strength and the health of his future years to nursing his wounded brothers

Burroughs, John [1837–1921] and Ursula [1836–1917]

  • Creator(s): Sarracino, Carmine
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Nursing the horribly wounded was as repugnant to Burroughs as handling mangled corpses, and he soon left

Health

  • Creator(s): Sanfilip, Thomas
Text:

Although he attributed the collapse of his health to prolonged exposure to viruses and diseases while nursing

I Sing the Body Digital

  • Creator(s): Sandra Beasley
Text:

provide context for poems drafted at the time, many of which were inspired by wounded soldiers Whitman nursed

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.

Conversations with Walt Whitman: My First Visit

  • Date: 1895
  • Creator(s): Sadakichi Hartmann
Text:

critics, so that they might write about him; at one period I even though of becoming his voluntary nurse

Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present

  • Date: 2008
  • Creator(s): Blake, David Haven | Robertson, Michael
Text:

lastbreathsothattheirdeadwillcontinuetobehuman—notjustchunksofmeat, but bodies that are cherished, nursed

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

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844–1909)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

Leaders of the Civil War," for which he asked Whitman to write a piece about his work as a volunteer nurse

Falmouth, Virginia

  • Creator(s): Rietz, John
Text:

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

"Ashes of Soldiers" (1865)

  • Creator(s): Rieke, Susan
Text:

resurrection and immortality.In this interpretation, Whitman mourns naturally the loss of those he knew and nursed

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.

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

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, 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

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