The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
CHAPTER VIII
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MR. JOWETT AND OTHER FRIENDS
Miss Nightingale's public acquaintances and private friends. Her
sympathetic nature--Acquaintances made on public business passing
into friendships--Sir Henry Yule. II. Affectionate sympathy with
her relations--Death of her "Aunt Mai" (1889)--Letters to her
younger relations--A burglary in South Street. III. Last years with
Mr. Jowett--His illness in South Street (1887)--Their scheme for a
"Nightingale Professorship of Statistics"--Mr. Jowett's illnesses
and death (1892)--Death of Sir Harry Verney and of Mr. Shore Smith
(1894). IV. Miss Nightingale on Mr. Jowett's death--Correspondence
with Lord Lansdowne--Mr. Jowett's precepts on old age 385
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