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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

The memorandum on "The Schools for Nurses" in London (1908).

To allow Hispanic communities to be invaded like this, nursed as they are "on the difficult facility

El Memorándum acerca de “Las Escuelas de Nurses” en Londres (1908).

was his occupation until the outbreak of the great civil war in 1862, when he undertook the duty of nursing

As a hospital nurse, Whitman proved the nobleness of his nature by his untiring devotion to the sick

the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfullywelcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse

Miss But ton [Whitman's next-door neighbor] told an anecdote ofWhitman, when an army nurse in Washington

I said 'Let it go', but doctors and nurses made a strong pull for it; fought for it like royal tigers

As he requires constant attendance night and day, we yesterday introduced a trained nurse, Mrs.

most intimate friends, afterward his biographer, and one of his literary executors, met me at the Nurses

This was Warren Fritzinger,* **Died in October 1899. his nurse, and my constant associate in taking care

And that strange feeling which comes over patient and nurse when they are learning to know each other

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.

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WHITMAN S LAST ILLNESS. 251 friendand nurse.

How he went down on the field in '61, and spent four years as a hard-working, unpaid army nurse, when

You wrote about Emma, her thinking she might & ought to come as nurse for the soldiers—dear girl, I know

on the go night and day, personally ministering to hundreds and thousands, healing the wounded and nursing

have a good strong tight cane chair & get out in it almost every day —propell'd by my stout young man nurse