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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

Franklin Evans; Or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times

  • Date: November 23, 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

turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst; And by its mirth, within the brain A sleepless worm is nursed

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Its death came from neglect and ill 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.

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

Early Roman History

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; April 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

If Niebuhr, with all his extravagant admiration of the wolf-nursed race, felt himself bound thus to speak

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 28, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There was no nurse or watcher there, for the physician had said it was of no importance, and all were

Fortunes of a Country-Boy; Incidents in Town—and His Adventure at the South

  • Date: November 30, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Its death came from neglect and ill nursing.

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

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 August 1848

  • Date: August 2, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to see her in Miss Lucretia MacTub MacTab , and in the Old Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, and in Mrs.

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

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

Spring, with your crown of roses budding news, Thought-nursing and most melancholy fall, Summer, with

The true friends of the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

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

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

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

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

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 10 May 1856
  • Creator(s): Fern, Fanny
Text:

Let him who can do so, shroud the eyes of the nursing babe lest it should see its mother's breast.

Utility of Perfumes

  • Date: 10 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Swill Milk

  • Date: 14 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

counties is supplied by the New York venders; and I doubt if a physician would any sooner recommend a nurse

Unhealthy Children in New York and Brooklyn

  • Date: 22 May 22 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

The Eagle’s Idea of “Friendly Joke”

  • Date: 28 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or, in other words, that his sore head would be good Black Republican capital, and as such he would nurse

Which “Pathy” Will You Have?

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

common simples of domestic practice; and the third class he left to the common-sense management of the nurses

[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

[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.

[While I so deeply loved]

  • Date: 1864
Text:

1864poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This is a manuscript with poem notes relating to Whitman's experience as a nurse

To One Shortly to Die

  • 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

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

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

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

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

Chants Democratic

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

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

Cluster: Chants Democratic and Native American. (1860)

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

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

City Photographs

  • Date: 22 March 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

THE NURSES. Some of the nurses are real characters, and favorable specimens, at that.

Jackson, who has been a nurse here for thirty years.

I saw another nurse among the soldiers in the North Building, Mrs.

sketch of that establishment could be fair unless it put in a word about Aunty Robinson, a colored nurse

creature has all the appearance of one of the most favorable samples of the Southern mammy , or house nurse

City Photographs—No. IV

  • Date: 12 April 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As I saw the case, and heard from the nurse's lips also, it was pitiful to see the agony the poor fellow

Mack, the nurse; and often and often have the soldiers mentioned her, and shown me something she has

William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1862

  • Date: August 31, 1862
  • Creator(s): W. W. Thayer | William Wilde Thayer
Text:

We have a "youngest" a year old who is a nobleman and beauty who must have a good nurse in order that

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

The Great Army of the Sick

  • Date: 26 February 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Each ward has a Ward-master, and generally a nurse for every ten or twelve men.

Some of the wards have a woman nurse—the Armory-square wards have some very good ones.

The nurse from Ward E to whom Whitman refers may be Amanda Akin Stearns, whose memoir of her time as

a nurse in Armory Square General Hospital is titled, The Lady Nurse of Ward E .

that could not be repressed—sometimes a poor fellow dying, with emaciated face and glassy eye, the nurse

The Great Washington Hospitals

  • Date: 19 March 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of good jelly; I carry a good sized jar to a ward, have it opened, get a spoon, and taking the head nurse

C of that regiment, Isaac Snyder; he is now acting as nurse there, and makes a very good one.

the other hospitals I met with general cordiality and deference among the doctors, ward officers, nurses

Of course there are exceptions of good officials here, and some of the women nurses are excellent, but

surgeons in charge of many of the hospitals, and often the ward surgeons, medical cadets, and head nurses

Will W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 5 April 1863

  • Date: April 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): Will W. Wallace
Text:

I have five young ladies who act in the capacity of nurses—i e, one of them is French , young and beautiful

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 5 May 1863

  • Date: May 5, 1863
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

reproductive organs, and, somehow, it wd seem to be the result of their logic—that eunuchs only are fit for nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 May 1863

  • Date: May 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

him—Mother, such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 30 June 1863

  • Date: June 30, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

something like I found John Holmes last winter—I called the doctor's attention to him, shook up the nurses

without fail, & often at night—sometimes stay very late—no one interferes with me, guards, doctors, nurses

Washington in the Hot Season

  • Date: 16 August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The principal singer was a young lady nurse of one of the wards, accompanying on a melodeon, and joined

by the lady nurses of other wards.

standing up a little behind them were some ten or fifteen of the convalescent soldiers, young men, nurses

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There are two good women nurses, one on each side.

One of the nurses constantly fans him, for it is fearfully hot.

From Washington

  • Date: 22 September 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The routine demanded at these huge hospitals from the duties of surgeon, nurse, &c., is generally fulfilled

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

  • Date: October 4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.—& a great staff of surgeons, cadets, women & men nurses &c &c.

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

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 11–15 October, 1863

  • Date: October 11–15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 October 1863

  • Date: October 13, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

dirty & torn, & many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses

Caleb H. Babbitt to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1863

  • Date: October 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Caleb H. Babbitt
Text:

both dark Walt—I have been verry low since I have been at home, and all that has saved me is good nursing

I must tell you who I have had to cheer and nurse me, besides my parents and sisters: is a young Lady

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 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

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