bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Diagnosis and Treatment of Pneumonia in Urgent Care Clinics: Opportunities for Improving Care
Authors: Hart James H , Sakata Theadora , Eve Jacqueline R , Butler Allison M , Wallin Anthony , Carman Chad , Atwood Brenda , Srivastava Rajendu , Jones Barbara E , Stenehjem Edward A , Dean Nathan C
Published: February 2024

Background

Community-acquired pneumonia is a well-studied condition; yet, in the urgent care setting, patient characteristics and adherence to guideline-recommended care are poorly described. Within Intermountain Health, a nonprofit integrated US health care system based in Utah, more patients present to urgent care clinics (UCCs) than emergency departments (EDs) for pneumonia care.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2020 in 28 UCCs within Utah. We extracted electronic health record data for patients aged ≥12 years with ICD-10 pneumonia diagnoses entered by the bedside clinician, excluding patients with preceding pneumonia within 30 days or missing vital signs. We compared UCC patients with radiographic pneumonia (n = 4689), without radiographic pneumonia (n = 1053), without chest imaging (n = 1472), and matched controls with acute cough/bronchitis (n = 15 972). Additional outcomes were 30-day mortality and the proportion of patients with ED visits or hospital admission within 7 days after the index encounter.

Results

UCC patients diagnosed with pneumonia and possible/likely radiographic pneumonia by radiologist report had a mean age of 40 years and 52% were female. Almost all patients with pneumonia (93%) were treated with antibiotics, including those without radiographic confirmation. Hospital admissions and ED visits within 7 days were more common in patients with radiographic pneumonia vs patients with “unlikely” radiographs (6% vs 2% and 10% vs 6%, respectively). Observed 30-day all-cause mortality was low (0.26%). Patients diagnosed without chest imaging presented similarly to matched patients with cough/acute bronchitis. Most patients admitted to the hospital the same day after the UCC visit (84%) had an interim ED encounter. Pneumonia severity scores (pneumonia severity index, electronic CURB-65, and shock index) overestimated patient need for hospitalization.

Conclusions

Most UCC patients with pneumonia were successfully treated as outpatients. Opportunities to improve care include clinical decision support for diagnosing pneumonia with radiographic confirmation and development of pneumonia severity scores tailored to the UCC.
Contract Law When the Poor Pay More
Authors: Spooner Joseph
Published: February 2024

Taking inequality as a key challenge of our time, this article aims to highlight consumer markets, and their underpinning legal ground rules, as important contributors to inequitable wealth distributions. It illustrates how product design, as manifested in contractual terms, can allow firms to evade competition and divert resources upwards along society’s wealth distribution curve. It then highlights the contestable legality of certain pricing practices, such as ‘contingent charges’, and the challenge they pose to fundamental principles of contract law. An in-depth view of the 2015 case of Beavis v ParkingEye argues that the UK Supreme Court has validated contingent pricing models in a manner unsupported by traditional contractual reasoning and unjustified by contemporary market failure analysis. The article asks contract law to confront the reality that it shapes market distributions in economically and politically significant ways, and appeals for greater scrutiny of the contribution of contract law adjudication to inequality.
Second Fragment
Authors: Hamsun Knut
Published: February 2024

A couple of weeks later I found myself outdoors one evening.

I had been sitting in a churchyard writing an article for one of the magazines; I went on with this until ten o’clock, darkness fell and the gate was about to be closed. I...
Glahn’s death
Authors: Hamsun Knut
Published: February 2024

I

The Glahn family can keep on advertising in the press for the missing Lieutenant Thomas Glahn as long as it wants; but he won’t be coming back. He’s dead, and I know how he died, too.

To tell the truth, it really doesn’t surprise...
Three Broken Threads
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared to be forgotten, and he was entirely absorbed in the pictures of the modern Belgian...
Past and Present
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.’ The impact of Carlyle's social criticism was immediate and profound, shaping debate about the ‘The Condition of England’ question well into the twentieth century and beyond, and serving as the moral foundation of the welfare state. His relentlessly abrasive and illuminating critique of industrial civilization generated a vast range of response both in England, Europe, and the United States. The writings of Matthew Arnold, John Stuart Mill, William Morris, John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin, as well as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman, were saturated with imagery and ideas directly indebted to the book.

Past and Present also provided novelists and poets with an enduring vision of the ubiquitous rot that lay at the heart of ‘laissez-faire’ England. The repercussions of Carlyle's unique analysis can be witnessed in the literary form and thematic content of such works as Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol (1843), Dombey and Son (1848), Bleak House (1852-53), and Hard Times (1854); Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil (1845); Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855); and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke (1850). Poets such as Alfred Tennyson in Maud (1855), Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh (1856), and Arthur Hugh Clough in The Latest Decalogue (1862) built a vocabulary that was steeped in the outrage and indignation of Carlyle's polemic. The artist Ford Madox Brown attempted in his painting Work (1852-65) to give visual testimony to the profound social schisms that Carlyle had exposed in Past and Present and to pay tribute to the ‘Sage’ who had ‘moulded a nation to his pattern.’
— The Modern Worker.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Phenomena.

How men have ‘forgotten God;’ taken the Fact of this Universe as it is not; God’s Laws, become a Greatest-Happiness Principle, a Parliamentary Expediency. Man has lost the soul out of him, and begins to find the want of it....
— Horoscope.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Aristocracies.

To predict the Future, to manage the Present, would not be so impossible, had not the Past been so sacrilegiously mishandled: A godless century, looking back to centuries that were godly. (p. 213). — A new real Aristocracy and Priesthood. The noble Priest always...
Midas.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

The condition of England,* on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever...
The Sphinx.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

How true, for example, is that other old Fable of the Sphinx,* who sat by the wayside, propounding her riddle to the passengers, which if they could not answer she destroyed them! Such a Sphinx is this Life of ours, to all...
Morrison’s Pill.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

What is to be done, what would you have us do?* asks many a one, with a tone of impatience, almost of reproach; and then, if you mention some one thing, some two things, twenty things that might be done, turns round...
Landlord Edmund.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Some three centuries or so had elapsed since Beodric’s-worth
1
* became St. Edmund’s Stow, St. Edmund’s Town and Monastery, before Jocelin entered himself a Novice there. ‘It was,’ says he, ‘the year after the Flemings were defeated...

Much...
Twelfth Century.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Our Abbot being dead, the Dominus Rex, Henry II., or Ranulf de Glanvill Justiciarius of England for him,* set Inspectors or Custodiars over us; — not in any breathless haste to appoint a new Abbot, our revenues coming into his...
Government.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

How Abbot Samson, giving his new subjects seriatim the kiss of fatherhood in the St. Edmundsbury chapterhouse, proceeded with cautious energy to set about reforming their disjointed distracted way of life; how he managed with his Fifty rough Milites (Feudal...
The Abbot’s Troubles.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

The troubles of Abbot Samson, as he went along in this abstemious, reticent, rigorous way, were more than tongue can tell. The Abbot’s mitre once set on his head, he knew rest no more. Double, double, toil and trouble;* that is the...
Henry of Essex.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Of St. Edmund’s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes? He that will go to Reading Monastery may find there, now tonsured into a mournful penitent Monk, the once proud Henry Earl of Essex; and discern how St. Edmund...
St. Edmund.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Abbot Samson built many useful, many pious edifices;* human dwellings, churches, church-steeples, barns; — all fallen now and vanished, but useful while they stood. He built and endowed ‘the Hospital of Babwell;’* built ‘fit houses for the St. Edmundsbury Schools.’*...
The Beginnings.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

What a singular shape of a Man, shape of a Time, have we in this Abbot Samson and his history; how strangely do modes, creeds, formularies, and the date and place of a man’s birth, modify the figure of the man!

Formulas too, as we...
Gospel of Dilettantism.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

But after all, the Gospel of Dilettantism,* producing a Governing Class who do not govern, nor understand in the least that they are bound or expected to govern, is still mournfuller than that of Mammonism. Mammonism, as we said, at least works;...
The English.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

And yet, with all thy theoretic platitudes, what a depth of practical sense in thee, great England! A depth of sense, of justice, and courage; in which, under all emergencies and world-bewilderments, and under this most complex of emergencies we now live in, there...
Working Aristocracy.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

A poor Working Mammonism getting itself ‘strangled in the partridge-nets of an Unworking Dilettantism,’* and bellowing dreadfully, and already black in the face, is surely a disastrous spectacle! But of a Midas-eared Mammonism, which indeed at bottom all pure Mammonisms are,...
Plugson of Undershot.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

One thing I do know: Never, on this Earth, was the relation of man to man long carried on by Cash-payment alone. If, at any time, a philosophy of Laissez-faire, Competition and Supply-and-demand, start up as the exponent of human relations, expect...
Democracy.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

If the Serene Highnesses and Majesties do not take note of that, then, as I perceive, that will take note of itself! The time for levity, insincerity, and idle babble and play-acting, in all kinds, is gone by; it is a serious,...
Aristocracies.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

To predict the Future, to manage the Present, would not be so impossible, had not the Past been so sacrilegiously mishandled; effaced, and what is worse, defaced! The Past cannot be seen; the Past, looked at through the medium of ‘Philosophical History’ in these...
Bribery Committee.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

In the case of the late Bribery Committee,* it seemed to be the conclusion of the soundest practical minds that Bribery could not be put down;* that Pure Election was a thing we had seen the last of, and must...
Permanence.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Standing on the threshold, nay as yet outside the threshold, of a ‘Chivalry of Labour,’ and an immeasurable Future which it is to fill with fruitfulness and verdant shade; where so much has not yet come even to the rudimental state, and all speech...
The Gifted.
Authors: Carlyle Thomas
Published: February 2024

Yes, in what tumultuous huge anarchy soever a Noble human Principle may dwell and strive, such tumult is in the way of being calmed into a fruitful sovereignty. It is inevitable. No Chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in it. Besouled with earnest...
The Man Whom The Trees Loved
Authors: Blackwood Algernon
Published: February 2024

I

He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them. He knew why in an oak forest, for instance, each individual was utterly distinct from its fellows, and why no two beeches in the whole world were...
Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London,* and proceeded to Netley* to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I...
Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

Our morning’s exertions had been too much for my weak health, and I was tired out in the afternoon. After Holmes’s departure for the concert, I lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours’ sleep. It was a useless...
The Flower of Utah
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

This is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. From the shores of the Mississippi to the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains they had struggled on with a constancy...
A Flight for Life
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

On the morning which followed his interview with the Mormon Prophet, John Ferrier went in to Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, who was bound for the Nevada Mountains, he entrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told...
Tales of The Jazz Age
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

quite inappropriately

TO MY MOTHER
The Jelly-Bean
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean.* Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine three-quarters per cent Jelly-bean and he grew lazily...
Porcelain and Pink
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

A room in the downstairs of a summer cottage. High around the wall runs an art frieze of a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet...
Tarquin of Cheapside
Authors: Fitzgerald F. Scott
Published: February 2024

Running footsteps — light, soft-soled shoes made of curious leathery cloth brought from Ceylon setting the pace; thick flowing boots, two pairs, dark blue and gilt, reflecting the moonlight in blunt gleams and splotches, following a stone’s throw behind.

Soft Shoes flashes through a patch of moonlight,...
The Empty House
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair* under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those particulars of the...
The Six Napoleons
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the...
The Abbey Grange
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of ’97* that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at...
The Second Stain
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

I had intended ‘The Adventure of the Abbey Grange’ to be the last of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should ever communicate to the public. This resolution of mine was not due to any lack of material, since I...
A Son at the Front
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: February 2024

In A Son at the Front, her only novel dealing with World War I, Edith Wharton offers a vivid portrait of American expatriate life in Paris, as well as a gripping portrayal of a complex modern family. The painter John Campton is divorced from the mother of his son, George, and although Julia's second husband, Anderson Brant, a wealthy banker, has been a devoted stepfather to George, Campton resents his presence in George's life. This family drama is ruptured by the outbreak of fighting, which requires George, born in France, to report for military service despite his parents' belief that he should be exempted.

Reflecting Wharton's own experiences, A Son at the Front documents the shock of the outbreak of war, the early hope of a quick victory for the Allies, the terrible human cost of the war, and the relief when, belatedly, the United States enters the conflict. The novel's tone reflects the realities of life in Paris, and the profound disillusionment of the post-war period, standing as not only an important part of Wharton's oeuvre, but a landmark in the literature of the First World War.
Book III
Authors: Wharton Edith
Published: February 2024

XXIV

The gates of Paris were behind them, and they were rushing through an icy twilight between long lines of houses, factory chimneys and city-girt fields, when Campton at last roused himself and understood.

It was he, John Campton, who sat in that car — that noiseless...
Answer to an Insisting Friend
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

You ask for items, details of my early life — of genealogy and parentage, particularly of the women of my ancestry, and of its far back Netherlands stock on the maternal side — of the region where I was born and raised, and my father and mother before...
The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

July 29, 1881. — After more than forty years’ absence, (except a brief visit, to take my father there once more, two years before he died,) went down Long Island on a week’s jaunt to the place where I was born, thirty miles from New York...
The Maternal Homestead
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I went down from this ancient grave place eighty or ninety rods to the site of the Van Velsor homestead, where my mother was born (1795,) and where every spot had been familiar to me as a child and youth (1825–’40.) Then stood there a...
Printing Office — Old Brooklyn
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

After about two years went to work in a weekly newspaper and printing office, to learn the trade. The paper was the “Long Island Patriot,” owned by S. E. Clements, who was also postmaster. An old printer in the office, William Hartshorne, a revolutionary...
Broadway Sights
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Besides Fulton ferry, off and on for years, I knew and frequented Broadway — that noted avenue of New York’s crowded and mixed humanity, and of so many notables. Here I saw, during those times, Andrew Jackson, Webster, Clay, Seward, Martin Van Buren, filibuster Walker, Kossuth,...
Sources of Character — Results — 1860
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

To sum up the foregoing from the outset (and, of course, far, far more unrecorded,) I estimate three leading sources and formative stamps to my own character, now solidified for good or bad, and its subsequent literary and other outgrowth — the maternal nativity-stock brought hither...
Down at the Front
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Falmouth, Va., opposite Fredericksburgh, December 21, 1862. — Begin my visits among the camp hospitals in the army of the Potomac. Spend a good part of the day in a large brick mansion on the banks of the Rappahannock, used as a...
Back to Washington
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

January, ’63. — Left camp at Falmouth, with some wounded, a few days since, and came here by Aquia creek railroad, and so on government steamer up the Potomac. Many wounded were with us on the cars and boat. The cars were just common platform ones....
The White House by Moonlight
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

February
24th. — A spell of fine soft weather. I wander about a good deal, sometimes at night under the moon. To-night took a long look at the President’s house. The white portico — the palace-like, tall, round columns, spotless as snow — the walls also — the tender and soft moonlight,...
The Wounded from Chancellorsville
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May, ’63. — As I write this, the wounded have begun to arrive from Hooker’s command from bloody Chancellorsville. I was down among the first arrivals. The men in charge told me the bad cases were yet to come. If that is so I pity them,...
A Night Battle, Over A Week Since
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May 12. — There was part of the late battle at Chancellorsville, (second Fredericksburgh,) a little over a week ago, Saturday, Saturday night and Sunday, under Gen. Joe Hooker, I would like to give just a glimpse of — (a moment’s look in a terrible storm at sea — of...
Some Specimen Cases
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June
18th. — In one of the hospitals I find Thomas Haley, company M, 4th New York cavalry — a regular Irish boy, a fine specimen of youthful physical manliness — shot through the lungs — inevitably dying — came over to this country from Ireland to enlist — has not a single friend...
My Preparations for Visits
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

In my visits to the hospitals I found it was in the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism, that I succeeded and help’d more than by medical nursing, or delicacies, or gifts of money, or anything else....
Ambulance Processions
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 25, Sundown. — As I sit writing this paragraph I see a train of about thirty huge four-horse wagons, used as ambulances, fill’d with wounded, passing up Fourteenth street, on their way, probably, to Columbian, Carver, and mount Pleasant hospitals. This is the...
The Most Inspiriting of all War’S Shows
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 29. — Just before sundown this evening a very large cavalry force went by — a fine sight. The men evidently had seen service. First came a mounted band of sixteen bugles, drums and cymbals, playing wild martial tunes — made my heart jump. Then the principal...
Hospitals Ensemble
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Aug., Sep., and Oct., ‘63. — I am in the habit of going to all, and to Fairfax seminary, Alexandria, and over Long bridge to the great Convalescent camp. The journals publish a regular directory of them — a long list. As a specimen of almost...
Spiritual Characters Among The Soldiers
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Every now and then, in hospital or camp, there are beings I meet — specimens of unworldliness, disinterestedness, and animal purity and heroism — perhaps some unconscious Indianian, or from Ohio or Tennessee — on whose birth the calmness of heaven seems to have descended, and whose gradual growing up,...
Cattle Droves About Washington
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Among other sights are immense droves of cattle with their drivers, passing through the streets of the city. Some of the men have a way of leading the cattle by a peculiar call, a wild, pensive hoot, quite musical, prolong’d, indescribable, sounding something between...
Hospital Perplexity
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

To add to other troubles, amid the confusion of this great army of sick, it is almost impossible for a stranger to find any friend or relative, unless he has the patient’s specific address to start upon. Besides the directory printed in the newspapers...
Down at the Front
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Culpepper, Va., Feb. ’64. — Here I am pretty well down toward the extreme front. Three or four days ago General S.,* who is now in chief command, (I believe Meade is absent, sick,) moved a strong force southward from camp as...
Rumors, Changes, &c.
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

About the excitement of Sunday, and the orders to be ready to start, I have heard since that the said orders came from some cautious minor commander, and that the high principalities knew not and thought not of any such move; which is likely....
Virginia
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Dilapidated, fenceless, and trodden with war as Virginia is, wherever I move across her surface, I find myself rous’d to surprise and admiration. What capacity for products, improvements, human life, nourishment and expansion. Everywhere that I have been in the Old Dominion, (the subtle...
A New Army Organization Fit for America
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

It is plain to me out of the events of the war, north and south, and out of all considerations, that the current military theory, practice, rules and organization, (adopted from Europe from the feudal institutes, with, of course, the “modern improvements,” largely from...
Death of a Hero
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I wonder if I could ever convey to another — to you, for instance, reader dear — the tender and terrible realities of such cases, (many, many happen’d,) as the one I am now going to mention. Stewart C. Glover, company E, 5th Wisconsin — was wounded May 5, in one...
A Glimpse of War’S Hell-Scenes
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

In one of the late movements of our troops in the valley, (near Upperville, I think,) a strong force of Moseby’s mounted guerillas attack’d a train of wounded, and the guard of cavalry convoying them. The ambulances contain’d about 60 wounded, quite a number...
Army Surgeons — Aid Deficiencies
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I must bear my most emphatic testimony to the zeal, manliness, and professional spirit and capacity, generally prevailing among the surgeons, many of them young men, in the hospitals and the army. I will not say much about the exceptions, for they are few; (but...
The Blue Everywhere
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

This city, its suburbs, the capitol, the front of the White House, the places of amusement, the Avenue, and all the main streets, swarm with soldiers this winter, more than ever before. Some are out from the hospitals, some from the neighboring camps, &c....
A Model Hospital
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Sunday, January 29th, 1865. — Have been in Armory-square this afternoon. The wards are very comfortable, new floors and plaster walls, and models of neatness. I am not sure but this is a model hospital after all, in important respects. I found several sad cases of...
Female Nurses for Soldiers
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

There are many women in one position or another, among the hospitals, mostly as nurses here in Washington, and among the military stations; quite a number of them young ladies acting as volunteers. They are a help in certain ways, and deserve to be...
Southern Escapees
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Feb. 23, ’65. — I saw a large procession of young men from the rebel army, (deserters they are call’d, but the usual meaning of the word does not apply to them,) passing the Avenue to-day. There were nearly 200, come up yesterday by boat from...
Attitude of Foreign Governments During The War
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Looking over my scraps, I find I wrote the following during 1864. The happening to our America, abroad as well as at home, these years, is indeed most strange. The democratic republic has paid her to-day the terrible and resplendent compliment of the united...
Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Frank H. Irwin, company E, 93d Pennsylvania  — died May 1, ’65 — My letter to his mother.* — Dear madam: No doubt you and Frank’s friends have heard the sad fact of his death in hospital here, through his uncle, or the lady from...
The Armies Returning
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May 7
. — Sunday. — To-day as I was walking a mile or two south of Alexandria, I fell in with several large squads of the returning Western army, (Sherman’s men as they call’d themselves) about a thousand in all, the largest portion of them...
The Grand Review
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

For two days now the broad spaces of Pennsylvania avenue along to Treasury hill, and so by detour around to the President’s house, and so up to Georgetown, and across the aqueduct bridge, have been alive with a magnificent sight, the returning armies. In...
Some Sad Cases Yet
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May 31. — James H. Williams, aged 21, 3d Virginia cavalry. — About as mark’d a case of a strong man brought low by a complication of diseases, (laryngitis, fever, debility and diarrhœa,) as I have ever seen — has superb physique, remains swarthy yet, and flushed and...
“Convulsiveness”
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

As I have look’d over the proof-sheets of the preceding pages, I have once or twice fear’d that my diary would prove, at best, but a batch of convulsively written reminiscences. Well, be it so. They are but parts of the actual distraction, heat,...
Three Years Summ’d Up
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

During those three years in hospital, camp or field, I made over six hundred visits or tours, and went, as I estimate, counting all, among from eighty thousand to a hundred thousand of the wounded and sick, as sustainer of spirit and body in...
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may be, to others — to me the main interest I found, (and still, on recollection, find,) in the rank and file of the armies, both sides, and in those specimens...
To The Spring and Brook
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

So, still sauntering on, to the spring under the willows — musical as soft clinking glasses — pouring a sizeable stream, thick as my neck, pure and clear, out from its vent where the bank arches over like a great brown shaggy eyebrow or mouth-roof — gurgling, gurgling ceaselessly — meaning, saying...
Autumn Side-Bits
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Sept. 20. — Under an old black oak, glossy and green, exhaling aroma — amid a grove the Albic druids might have chosen — envelop’d in the warmth and light of the noonday sun, and swarms of flitting insects — with the harsh cawing of many crows a hundred rods away — here I...
The Sky — Days and Nights — Happiness
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Oct. 20. — A clear, crispy day — dry and breezy air, full of oxygen. Out of the sane, silent, beauteous miracles that envelope and fuse me — trees, water, grass, sunlight, and early frost — the one I am looking at most to-day is the sky. It has that delicate, transparent...
November 8, ’76
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The forenoon leaden and cloudy, not cold or wet, but indicating both. As I hobble down here and sit by the silent pond, how different from the excitement amid which, in the cities, millions of people are now waiting news of yesterday’s Presidential election,...
The Common Earth, The Soil
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The soil, too — let others pen-and-ink the sea, the air, (as I sometimes try) — but now I feel to choose the common soil for theme — naught else. The brown soil here, ( just between winter-close and opening spring and vegetation) — the rain-shower at night, and the...
Birds and Birds and Birds
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

A little later — bright weather. — An unusual melodiousness, these days, (last of April and first of May) from the blackbirds; indeed all sorts of birds, darting, whistling, hopping or perch’d on trees. Never before have I seen, heard, or been in the midst of, and got...
Distant Sounds
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The axe of the wood-cutter, the measured thud of a single threshing-flail, the crowing of chanticleer in the barn-yard, (with invariable responses from other barn-yards,) and the lowing of cattle — but most of all, or far or near, the wind — through the high tree-tops, or through...
A Sun-Bath — Nakedness
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Sunday, Aug. 27. — Another day quite free from mark’d prostration and pain. It seems indeed as if peace and nutriment from heaven subtly filter into me as I slowly hobble down these country lanes and across fields, in the good air — as...
A Quintette
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

While I have been kept by the rain under the shelter of my great oak, (perfectly dry and comfortable, to the rattle of the drops all around,) I have pencill’d off the mood of the hour in a little quintette, which I will give...
Thoughts Under an Oak—A Dream
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 2. — This is the fourth day of a dark northeast storm, wind and rain. Day before yesterday was my birthday. I have now enter’d on my 60th year. Every day of the storm, protected by overshoes and a waterproof blanket, I regularly come down...
An Unknown
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 15. — To-day I noticed a new large bird, size of a nearly grown hen — a haughty, white-bodied dark-wing’d hawk — I suppose a hawk from his bill and general look — only he had a clear, loud, quite musical, sort of bell-like call, which he repeated again and again,...
Bird-Whistling
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

How much music (wild, simple, savage, doubtless, but so tart-sweet,) there is in mere whistling. It is four-fifths of the utterance of birds. There are all sorts and styles. For the last half-hour, now, while I have been sitting here, some feather’d fellow away...
A Specimen Tramp Family
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

June 22. — This afternoon we went out ( J. B., Al. and I) on quite a drive around the country. The scenery, the perpetual stone fences, (some venerable old fellows, dark-spotted with lichens) — the many fine locust-trees — the runs of brawling water, often over descents of rock — these,...
Human and Heroic New York
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The general subjective view of New York and Brooklyn — (will not the time hasten when the two shall be municipally united in one, and named Manhattan?) — what I may call the human interior and exterior of these great seething oceanic populations, as I get it in...
Straw-Color’d and Other Psyches
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Aug. 4. — A pretty sight! Where I sit in the shade — a warm day, the sun shining from cloudless skies, the forenoon well advanc’d — I look over a ten-acre field of luxuriant clover-hay, (the second crop) — the livid-ripe red blossoms and dabs of August brown thickly spotting...
Up The Hudson to Ulster County
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

April 23. — Off to New York on a little tour and visit. Leaving the hospitable, home-like quarters of my valued friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnston — took the 4 p.m. boat, bound up the Hudson, 100 miles or so. Sunset and...
Meeting a Hermit
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I found in one of my rambles up the hills a real hermit, living in a lonesome spot, hard to get at, rocky, the view fine, with a little patch of land two rods square. A man of youngish middle age, city born and raised,...
Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

We thought of stopping in Kansas City, but when we got there we found a train ready and a crowd of hospitable Kansians to take us on to Lawrence, to which I proceeded. I shall not soon forget my good days in L., in...
On to Denver — a Frontier Incident
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The jaunt of five or six hundred miles from Topeka to Denver took me through a variety of country, but all unmistakably prolific, western, American, and on the largest scale. For a long distance we follow the line of the Kansas river, (I like...
Denver Impressions
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Through the long-lingering half-light of the most superb of evenings we return’d to Denver, where I staid several days leisurely exploring, receiving impressions, with which I may as well taper off this memorandum, itemizing what I saw there. The best was the...
Unfulfill’d Wants — The Arkansas River
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I had wanted to go to the Yellowstone river region — wanted specially to see the National Park, and the geysers and the “hoodoo” or goblin land of that country; indeed, hesitated a little at Pueblo, the turning point — wanted to thread the Veta pass — wanted to...
A Silent Little Follower — The Coreopsis
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Here I must say a word about a little follower, present even now before my eyes. I have been accompanied on my whole journey from Barnegat to Pike’s Peak by a pleasant floricultural friend, or rather millions of friends — nothing more or less than a...
The Prairies and Great Plains in Poetry
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Grand as the thought that doubtless the child is already born who will see a hundred millions of people, the most prosperous and advanc’d of the world, inhabiting these Prairies, the great Plains, and the valley of the Mississippi, I could not help thinking...
Earth’s Most Important Stream
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

The valley of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, (this stream and its adjuncts involve a big part of the question,) comprehends more than twelve hundred thousand square miles, the greater part prairies. It is by far the most important stream on the globe,...
Mississippi Valley Literature
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Lying by one rainy day in Missouri to rest after quite a long exploration — first trying a big volume I found there of “Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie and Collins,” but giving it up for a bad job* — enjoying however for awhile, as often before,...
The Women of the West
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Kansas
City. — I am not so well satisfied with what I see of the women of the prairie cities. I am writing this where I sit leisurely in a store in Main street, Kansas city, a streaming crowd on the sidewalks flowing by. The ladies...
The Silent General
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Sept. 28, ’79. — So General Grant, after circumambiating the world, has arrived home again — landed in San Francisco yesterday, from the ship City of Tokio from Japan. What a man he is! what a history! what an illustration — his life — of the capacities of that American individuality common...
St. Louis Memoranda
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Oct., Nov., and Dec., ’79. — The points of St. Louis are its position, its absolute wealth, (the long accumulations of time and trade, solid riches, probably a higher average thereof than any city,) the unrivall’d amplitude of its well-laid out environage of broad...
Edgar Poe’s Significance
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Jan. 1, ’80. — In diagnosing this disease called humanity — to assume for the nonce what seems a chief mood of the personality and writings of my subject — I have thought that poets, somewhere or other on the list, present the most mark’d indications. Comprehending artists in ...
A Contralto Voice
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May 9, Sunday — Visit this evening to my friends the J.’s — good supper, to which I did justice — lively chat with Mrs. J. and I. and J. As I sat out front on the walk afterward, in the evening air, the church-choir and organ on...
The St. Lawrence Line
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

August 20. — Premising that my three or four months in Canada were intended, among the rest, as an exploration of the line of the St. Lawrence, from lake Superior to the sea, (the engineers here insist upon considering it as one stream, over 2000 miles...
Capes Eternity and Trinity
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

But the great, haughty, silent capes themselves; I doubt if any crack points, or hills, or historic places of note, or anything of the kind elsewhere in the world, outvies these objects — (I write while I am before them face to face.) They are very...
Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

No indeed — life and travel and memory have offer’d and will preserve to me no deeper-cut incidents, panorama, or sights to cheer my soul, than these at Chicoutimi and Ha-ha bay, and my days and nights up and down this fascinating savage river — the rounded mountains,...
Cedar-Plums Like — Names
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

One time I thought of naming this collection “Cedar-Plums Like” (which I still fancy wouldn’t have been a bad name, nor inappropriate.) A melange of loafing, looking, hobbling, sitting, traveling — a little thinking thrown in for salt, but very little — not only summer but...
My Tribute to Four Poets
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

April 16. — A short but pleasant visit to Longfellow. I am not one of the calling kind, but as the author of “Evangeline” kindly took the trouble to come and see me three years ago in Camden, where I was ill, I felt not only...
Samples of My Common-Place Book
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I ought not to offer a record of these days, interests, recuperations, without including a certain old, well-thumb’d common-place book,1

filled with favorite excerpts, I carried in my pocket for three summers, and absorb’d over and over again, when the mood invited. I find...
Hot Weather New York
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

August. — In the big city awhile. Even the height of the dog-days, there is a good deal of fun about New York, if you only avoid fluster, and take all the buoyant wholesomeness that offers. More comfort, too, than most folks think. A middle-aged man,...
Some Old Acquaintances — Memories
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Aug. 16. — “Chalk a big mark for to-day,” was one of the sayings of an old sportsman-friend of mine, when he had had unusually good luck — come home thoroughly tired, but with satisfactory results of fish or birds. Well, to-day might warrant such a mark for...
Only a New Ferry Boat
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Jan. 12, ’82. — Such a show as the Delaware presented an hour before sundown yesterday evening, all along between Philadelphia and Camden, is worth weaving into an item. It was full tide, a fair breeze from the southwest, the water of a pale tawny color,...
Starting Newspapers
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

Reminiscences — (From the “Camden Courier.”) — As I sat taking my evening sail across the Delaware in the staunch ferryboat “Beverly,” a night or two ago, I was join’d by two young reporter friends. “I have a message for you,” said one of them; “the C....
At Present Writing — Personal
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

May 31, ’82. — “From to-day I enter upon my 64th year. The paralysis that first affected me nearly ten years ago, has since remain’d, with varying course — seems to have settled quietly down, and will probably continue. I easily tire, am very clumsy, cannot walk far;...
After Trying a Certain Book
Authors: Whitman Walt
Published: February 2024

I tried to read a beautifully printed and scholarly volume on “the Theory of Poetry,”* received by mail this morning from England — but gave it up at last for a bad job. Here are some capricious pencillings that follow’d, as I find...
The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge
Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Published: February 2024

It was nearly eleven o’clock when we reached this final stage of our night’s adventures. We had left the damp fog of the great city behind us, and the night was fairly fine. A warm wind blew from the westward, and heavy clouds moved...
A Preliminary Word
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

The writer of this tale ventures, in his own person, to address a very few words, chiefly of explanation, to his readers. A leading situation in this ‘Story of Bartram-Haugh’ is repeated, with a slight variation, from a short magazine tale of some fifteen...
Sights and noises
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

There is not an old house in England of which the servants and young people who live in it do not cherish some traditions of the ghostly. Knowl has its shadows, noises, and marvellous records. Rachel Ruthyn, the beauty of Queen Anne’s time, who...
Church Scarsdale
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

I think all the females of our household, except Mrs. Rusk, who was at open feud with her, and had only room for the fiercer emotions, were more or less afraid of this inauspicious foreigner.

Mrs. Rusk would say in her confidences in my room — ...
Lady Knollys removes a coverlet
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

Lady Knollys pursued her inquiries.

‘And why does not Madame make your dresses, my dear? I wager a guinea the woman’s a milliner. Did not she engage to make your dresses?’

‘I — I really don’t know; I rather think not. She is my governess — a finishing governess,...
Angry words
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

I was going to my governess, as Lady Knollys said; and so I went. The undefinable sense of danger that smote me whenever I beheld that woman had deepened since last night’s occurrence, and was taken out of the region of instinct or...
A warning
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

I sate still, listening and wondering, and wondering and listening; but I ought to have known that no sound could reach me where I was from my father’s study. Five minutes passed, and they did not return. Ten, fifteen. I drew near the...
Austin Ruthyn sets out on his journey
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

The Rev. William Fairfield, Doctor Clay’s somewhat bald curate, a mild, thin man, with a high and thin nose, who was preparing me for confirmation, came next day; and when our catechetical conference was ended, and before lunch was announced, my father sent for...
More about Tom Charke’s suicide
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

So the inquest was held, and Mr. Manwaring, of Wail Forest, was the only juryman who seemed to entertain the idea during the inquiry that Mr. Charke had died by any hand but his own.

‘And how could he fancy such a thing?’...
Bartram-Haugh
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

In a moment a tall, lithe girl, black-haired, black-eyed, and, as I thought, inexpressibly handsome, was smiling, with such beautiful rings of pearly teeth, at the window; and in her peculiar accent, with a suspicion of something foreign in it, proposing with many courtesies...
Zamiel
Authors: Le Fanu Sheridan , Connolly Claire
Published: February 2024

It was all vain my remonstrating. She vowed that by crossing the stepping-stones close by she could, by a short cut, reach the house, and return with my pencils and block-book in a quarter of an hour. Away then, with many a jump and...