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Cluster: Messenger Leaves. (1860)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Wednesday, August 29, 1888.

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

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

Saturday, March 12, 1892

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

Have you two nurses now?

Monday, November 5, 1888.

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

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

Sunday, November 11, 1888.

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

sick a family who knew him—Eames by name—Judge Eames, we called him (a lawyer)—took him in, got him a nurse

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

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

His brother having been wounded in an early engagement, he went to the front to nurse him.

Whitman's aim was not to supplant but to suplement the doctors and nurses by giving aid which they had

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

personal presence and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism" that he was able to help, than by "medical nursing

He gives fine praise to the surgeons, nurses and soldiers—"not a bit of sentimentalism or whining have

and many a mother's son amid strangers passing away untended there, for the crowd was too much for nurse

Whitman in Brazil

  • Creator(s): Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
Text:

America] most nearly recognizes its image is good gray Whitman in his open-collared shirt, in his white nurse's

conscious of his basic virtues not only through the eyes of a poet but also through the clinical eyes of a nurse

Whitman was a rough-hewn giant, but it seems that as a nurse to the sick who were closest to death, he

Suppressing Walt Whitman.

  • Date: April 22, 1876
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor
Text:

which is the chief literary glory of our country in the capitals of Europe—the book of the good gray nurse

Thursday, March 14, 1889

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

remedies as their disease required, to say nothing of being exposed all annoyances and want of good nursing

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

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

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1881)

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

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

Cluster: Whispers of Heavenly Death. (1891)

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

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

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

Wednesday, February 6, 1889

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

during the War to whom justice has never been done—the telegraph boys, the cadet physicians, the nurses

Walt Whitman to Lewis K. Brown, 8–9 November 1863

  • Date: November 8–9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

Whitman’s “Live Oak with Moss”

  • Date: 1992
  • Creator(s): Helms, Alan
Text:

writes publicly acceptable poems of American patriotism so dear to the father's heart, Whitman the male nurse

in Whitman's life and work, foremost among them the continued failure of his book, his Civil War nursing

Day with Walt Whitman

  • Date: 8 November 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Ushered into the snug little parlor, the visitor noted the retreating foot falls of the nurse as she

Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 19 April 1876
  • Creator(s): Frank Sanborn
Text:

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

Tuesday, March 12, 1889.

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

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

Thursday, March 21, 1889

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

turning to me: "What he seems most to need is a skilful able-bodied man—a nurse.

Tuesday, March 26, 1889

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

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

Thursday, December 27, 1888.

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

Bucke, Osler, Wharton and Walsh, and a good nurse, Edward Wilkins, a young, strong Canadian.

Friday, April 19, 1889

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

Even the nurse remarked the other night when Kemper sat in the parlor with us that "the way Mr.

Thursday, January 31, 1889

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

where, for what: but Mary Davis talked with him: she knows much about that peculiar disease, having nursed

Sunday, February 17, 1889

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

There's no use nursing the memory of it: it's best forgotten.

Thursday, February 21, 1889

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

He's a surgeon, Horace, you notice: you remember what I've always said: surgeons, mothers, nurses—they

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

confidence and love between us, welded by sickness, pain of wounds, and little daily, nightly offices of nursing

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

plain condition and probabilities, I told him by all means to get himself home to his old mother's nursing

[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

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

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.”

Wednesday, February 27, 1889

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

it is poor O'Connor who should have the nurse, not me: poor William: he deserves it, I do not."

Tuesday, December 18, 1888.

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

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

The Fireman's Dream

  • Date: March 31, 1844
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Arrived there, the kindness of Violet did not pause at any attentions or motherly nursings.

[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.

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

Tuesday, December 25, 1888

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

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

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

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

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1881)

  • 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

Cluster: Sea-Drift. (1891)

  • 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

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891: In Camden

  • Date: 1917
  • Creator(s): John Johnston
Text:

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

Walt Whitman: Preface to the Sixth Edition

  • Creator(s): Álvaro Armando Vasseur
Text:

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

Complete Prose Works

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

Some of the nurses are excellent. 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.

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

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

A trained female nurse, he said, took care of Mr.

Thursday, November 15, 1888.

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

If Miss Hill in ward F or the lady nurse in ward E cares about reading it to the boys in those wards

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