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Poems by Walt Whitman [1868]

  • Date: 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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attached him inseparably though not rancorously to the good cause of the North, he undertook the nursing

From the spring of 1863, this nursing, both in the field and more especially in hospital at Washington

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

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

argue—I bend my head close, and half-envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

Poems by Walt Whitman

  • Date: 19 April 1868
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse

A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Gerhardt, Christine
Text:

the violet: / Humility is the fair-haired maid, that calleth Worth her brother, / the gentle silent nurse

Photographs and Photographers

  • Creator(s): Folsom, Ed
Text:

identity, from the young New York reporter/flâneur to the working class rough to the careworn Civil War nurse

Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Likely, it was Oscar Cunningham, the Ohio soldier whom Whitman nursed at Armory Square Hospital.

In the winter of 1862-63, Louisa May Alcott nursed the wounded soldiers there and drew her Hospital Sketches

Nursing Walt On Thursday evening, January 23, 1873, Whitman suffered a stroke while reading in the Attorney

Spelling nursing duties with Ellen O'Connor and Charley Eldridge, Peter Doyle attended Whitman regularly

Pete also became better acquainted with Charles Eldridge and Ellen O'Connor, as the erstwhile nurses

Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers

  • Date: 11 December 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I always confer with the doctor, or find out from the nurse or ward-master, about a new case.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Cleanliness, proper nursing, watching &c., are more deficient than in any hospital I know.

WOMEN NURSES. Middle-aged women and mothers of families are best.

am compelled to say young ladies, however refined, educated and benevolent, do not succeed as army nurses

Our Old Feuillage.

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

Our Old Feuillage.

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

planter's son returning after a long absence, joy- fully joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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And now, Philip, thanking the indulgence of God, which had vouchsafed him this happiness, was the nurse

November Boughs [1888]

  • Creator(s): Barcus, James E., Jr.
Text:

Not to be omitted are Whitman's accounts of his days spent nursing the wounded and dying Civil War soldiers

Notices of New Books

  • Date: 16 November 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sleeps the soft south nursing its delicate breath To fan the first buds of the early Spring: The Summer

Notes on Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

[New York Atlas, 26 December 1858]

  • Date: 26 December 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Nature's medicines are simple food, nursing, air, rest, cheerful encouragement, and the like.

[New York Atlas, 19 September 1858]

  • Date: 19 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grow where they first sprouted out of the ground, intended untended by the gardener, left to the nursing

Nature

  • Creator(s): Doudna, Martin K.
Text:

shorter poems in the "Sea-Drift" section of Leaves of Grass, the sea is personified as an old mother or nurse

Music, Whitman's Influence on

  • Creator(s): Leathers, Lyman L.
Text:

was writing the piece, Adams says, his father was dying of Alzheimer's disease and his mother was nursing

Once again, as in the Adams work, Whitman's role as nurse is exploited.

Monday, September 17th, 1888.

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

After B. was gone W. said: "He's a gentle fellow—was a sweet nurse: it was like good health to have him

Monday, October 6, 1890

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

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
Text:

afternoon at two he lectured some students, coming out from the city, with a number of his own girls: nurses

Monday, October 21, 1889

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

Then laughed over the fact that the new nurse had not turned up today—made no sign.

Monday, October 14, 1889

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

Have not got on track of a nurse yet. Monday, October 14, 1889

Monday, November 5, 1888.

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

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

Monday, November 30, 1891

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

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.

Monday, November 23, 1891

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

Evidently nursing the rather diminutive flame, which soon, however, blazed up and induced him to go back

Monday, June 18, 1888.

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

B. at one point spoke of the circular for contributions for keeping a nurse in the house for W.

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, July 8, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
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I told W. that in soliciting contributions to the nurse fund I had never put it on the ground of poverty

but of necessity that a nurse should be kept and of the grace it would do W.'

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

Monday July 23, 1888.

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

I struck out the 'volunteer hospital nurse' line.

Monday July 16, 1888.

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

Change of nurses has something to do with this. Musgrove is a cloudy man. I asked how M. got on.

He is only a nurse—not a doctor. W. motioned the medicine away.

Monday, July 1, 1889

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

Davis & his nurse & we could have a jolly time.

Monday, January 25, 1892

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

s together, finding the nurses together busily engaged changing W. and the bed.

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

Monday, January 21, 1889

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

have spent a summer with him at the Asylum—on the farm: till you meet the doctors, the patients, the nurses

Monday, January 18, 1892

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

Tell him, Horace, that I am well-looked after—that I am satisfied everything is done for me—doctors, nurses

Monday, February 1, 1892

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

To see Childs, too, and considerable talk with him anent nurse at W.'s and W.'s affairs generally.

Monday, December 28, 1891

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

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.'

Monday, December 21, 1891

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

His physicians have told him of his exact condition, but he pleasantly said to his nurse, "We may beat

Monday, August 6, 1888.

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

mind and after all wrote a dozen lines or so, which I have just sent up to the post office by the nurse

Monday, April 23, 1888.

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

that he is not wanted, that his room is better than his company, that he has a good heart—that he can nurse

Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]

  • Creator(s): Davis, Robert Leigh
Text:

of the American people—in a Massachusetts soldier returning from Andersonville, in an Armory Square nurse

Memoranda During the War

  • Date: 1875–1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The woman nurse in this Ward I like very much. (Mrs.

by the lady nurses of other Wards.

Each has its Ward Surgeon and corps of nurses.

Female Nurses for Soldiers.

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

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
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Journal on two cassettes (Audio Scholar), a spoken word Whitman autobiography describing his life as nurse

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1890

  • Date: February 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

Karin is babbling on the floor, playing with blocks, & both nurses are adding a not insignificant share

Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1888

  • Date: October 1, 1888
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe
Text:

been looking forward to as a happy reunion, was given over to anxiety & telegrams to doctors and nurses

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5–6 May 1873]

  • Date: May 5–6, 1873
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

home sick the 1 of next month if you are able you must try to come on here lou s Lou's aunt goes to nurse

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1865]

  • Date: March 5, 1865
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [4–5 December 1863]

  • Date: December 4–5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

i went again and marthe went he wanted her to come she was there nearly all day only came home to nurse

Longaker, Dr. Daniel (1858–1949)

  • Creator(s): Singley, Carol J.
Text:

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.

Long Island

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

. — silent curious babes, little accustomed to crying or to any soft and tender nursing.— Transcribed

Little Jane

  • Date: December 7, 1846
  • 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

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