The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
1872. Contributed by request to the _Report on Measures adopted for
4313 words | Chapter 59
Sanitary Improvements in India, 1872_, pp. 48-49.
(63) _Address from Miss Nightingale to the Probationer Nurses in the
"Nightingale Fund" School at St. Thomas's Hospital. Printed for Private
Circulation._ Dated May 1872. Quarto, pp. 8.
Copies were also lithographed from Miss Nightingale's MS. An address
(or sometimes called a letter) was written in many succeeding years
(see below under 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1884,
1886, 1888, 1897, 1900, 1905). For remarks on the addresses generally,
and quotations, see Vol. II. pp. 263-268.
1873
(64) "A 'Note' of Interrogation." An article in _Fraser's Magazine_, May
1873, pp. 567-577.
(65) "A Sub-'Note of Interrogation.' What will our Religion be in 1999?"
An article in _Fraser's Magazine_, July 1873, pp. 25-36.
For these papers, see Vol. II. pp. 218-220.
(66) _Address from Miss Nightingale to the Probationer Nurses in the
"Nightingale Fund" School at St. Thomas's Hospital and the Nurses who
were formerly trained there. Printed for Private Circulation._ Quarto,
pp. 12. Dated "May 23, 1873."
(67) _Notes on the New St. Thomas's Hospital._ [_Being simply Notes on
those things which should be avoided._] Headed "Private and
Confidential." Folio, pp. 4.
(68) _Prison Discipline._ A letter, dated "September 1, 1873," addressed
to the Rev. Dr. Wines and printed in the _Hartford Courant_
(Connecticut).
The letter was reprinted in English newspapers, _e.g._ in _The Times_
October 11, 1873.
(69) _Voting Reform in Charities._ A letter to Sir Sydney Waterlow,
dated October 30, printed in _The Times_, November 4, 1873.
(70) _Letter to the Nurses of the Edinburgh Infirmary._ Quarto, pp. 5.
Dated Dec. 6, 1873.
(71) A letter (lithographed) addressed to specified (Nightingale) Nurses
at the Edinburgh Infirmary, Christmas 1873.
1874
(72) _Life or Death in India. A Paper read at the Meeting of the
National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Norwich,
October 1873. With an appendix on "Life or Death by Irrigation."_
London: Harrison & Sons, 1874. A pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 63, in lilac paper
wrappers.
For a notice of this pamphlet, see above, p. 181. The Paper was
printed in several different forms:
(1) In the _Transactions_ of the Association, 1873, pp. 463-474.
(2) For private circulation, as a pamphlet (pp. 14, in white paper
wrappers) entitled _How Some People have lived and not died in India_.
London, 1874 (printed by Spottiswoode).
(3) With the appendix (written in May 1874) as above. Some copies are
in dark-blue wrappers, and have "Spottiswoode & Co." in place of
"Harrison & Sons."
(4) The Paper and appendix were printed at pp. 47-64 of the Blue-book,
_Report on Measures adopted for Sanitary Improvements in India from
June 1873 to June 1874_.
(73) _Address from Florence Nightingale to the Probationer Nurses in the
"Nightingale Fund" School at St. Thomas's Hospital and the Nurses who
were formerly trained there. July 23, 1874. Printed for Private Use._
Quarto, pp. 12.
(74) "Irrigation and Means of Transit in India." An article in the
_Illustrated London News_, August 1, 1874; signed, and dated "July 30,
1874."
The article contains an incidental reference to the "India Council
Bill of Lord Salisbury--that master-workman and born ruler of men."
The article was reprinted in the _Homeward Mail_, August 4, and the
_Journal of the National Indian Association_, September (pp. 215-219).
(75) _Suggestions for Improving the Nursing Service of Hospitals and on
the Method of Training Nurses for the Sick Poor._ Folio, pp. 18 (dated
August 1874).
This Paper comprises: (1) "Method of Training Nurses at St. Thomas's
Hospital (under the Nightingale Fund)." (2) "Relation of Hospital
Management to Efficient Nursing." (3) "Structural Arrangements in
Hospitals required for Efficient Nursing." (4) "District Nursing." Of
these contents (1) and (2) and (3) were reprinted with some
alterations from No. 49.
(76) _Letter to the Nurses of the Edinburgh Infirmary_ (Dec. 1874).
Quarto, on a single sheet.
(77) _The Zemindar, the Sun, and the Watering Pot as affecting Life or
Death in India._ Folio, pp. 195; bound up in two Parts (pp. 1-84,
85-195).
For this work (never issued in any final form), see above, p. 295.
Proof-copies, among Miss Nightingale's papers, show many variations in
the title, _e.g._ for Part I., "The Zemindary System as affecting Life
or Death in India," and for Part II., "Life or Death in India under
Irrigation."
1875
(78) _Address from Florence Nightingale to the Probationer Nurses in the
"Nightingale Fund" School at St. Thomas's Hospital and the Nurses who
were formerly trained there. May 26, 1875. Printed for Private Use
only._ Quarto, pp. 12.
1876
(79) _Address_ ... [as in No. 78]. _April 28, 1876. Printed for Private
Use only._ Quarto, pp. 12.
(80) _Metropolitan and National Association for Providing Trained Nurses
for the Sick Poor. On Trained Nursing for the Sick Poor. By Florence
Nightingale._ A letter addressed to the _Times_ of Good Friday, April
14, 1876. Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., 1876. A small pamphlet (without
wrappers), pp. 12.
Other copies have the imprint, "Printed by Cull & Son, Houghton
Street, Strand." There were articles on Miss Nightingale's letter in
the _Saturday Review_, April 22, and _Punch_, April 29. The pamphlet
was reprinted in 1881.
(81) The "Bulgarian Atrocities." A letter, dated September 15, in the
_Daily News_, September 18.
An eloquent appeal for the Bulgarian Relief Fund, addressed to Sir
John Bennett.
1877
(82) "The Famine in Madras." A letter to the _Illustrated London News_,
June 29, 1877.
The letter, dealing with irrigation as a preventive of famine, was
reprinted as an appendix (pp. 25-30) to a pamphlet entitled _The
Madras Famine_, by Sir A. Cotton. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.
(83) _In Memoriam._ In remembrance of John Gerry. A small pamphlet, pp.
14, in mauve paper wrappers. Written and privately printed by F. N.
John Gerry was a young footman who died of smallpox at Lea Hurst on
July 17, 1877. Miss Nightingale was in the house at the time and had
two trained nurses in attendance on him.
(84) "The Indian Famine." A letter to the Lord Mayor, enclosing a cheque
for the Mansion House Relief Fund, printed in the _Daily Telegraph_,
August 20.
"The letter would be worth its weight in gold to the Fund," said the
Lord Mayor in acknowledging it. It was an earnest appeal for aid to
the ryot, than whom "there is not a more industrious being on the face
of the earth."
(85) _Work in Brighton; or, Woman's Mission to Women._ By the Author of
_Active Service, Work among the Lost_, etc. [Ellice Hopkins]. With a
Preface by Florence Nightingale. Ninth Thousand. London: Hatchards,
1877.
The Preface, dated "October 1877," occupies pp. iii., iv., and is an
earnest appeal for Rescue Work.
(86) _Lettre sur le devoir des Femmes de prendre une part active à
l'[oe]uvre du relèvement de la moralité publique, et considerations sur
les résultats sanitaires de la reglementation dans l'Inde Anglaise._
Read at a Congress in Geneva in the autumn of 1877. I have not been
able to trace where it was printed.
(87) _A Letter to the Nurses of the Edinburgh Infirmary_, dated "New
Year's Eve, 7 A.M." Quarto, pp. 3.
1878
(88) _Letter to the Matron, Home Sister, and Nurses at St. Thomas's
Hospital._ Quarto, pp. 14.
Lithographed. Dated "New Year's Day, 7 A.M., 1878." This took the
place of the usual address.
(89) "Who is the Savage?" An article in _Social Notes_ (edited by
S. C. Hall), May 11, 1878, vol. i. No. 10, pp. 145-147.
A description of life in the slums of a great city--suggesting an
extension of Miss Octavia Hill's work, coffee-houses, co-operative
stores, and rescue work. The MS. of this paper was offered for sale
by an Edinburgh bookseller in 1913.
(90) "The United Empire and the Indian Peasant." An article in the
_Journal of the National Indian Association_, June 1878, pp. 232-245.
(91) St. Thomas's Hospital. _Memorandum for Probationers as to Finger
Poisoning_, etc. A fly-sheet, pp. 4. Dated "July 1878."
Drawn up by F. N. in consultation doubtless with the medical officers.
(92) "A Water Arrival in India. By a Commissioner." An article, signed
"F. N.," in _Good Words_, July 1878, pp. 493-496.
Describing, in the language as of a Royal Progress, the opening of the
Kana Nuddee (Blind River) in the Hooghly District.
(93) _Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage._ A leaflet (8vo, pp. 4,
printed by A. Ireland & Co., Manchester); Florence Nightingale's opinion
(dated July 1878) occupies p. 1:--
You ask me to give my reasons for wishing for the suffrage for women
householders and women ratepayers. I have no reasons. The Indian ryot
should be represented so that the people may virtually rate themselves
according to the surveys of what is wanted, and spend the money
locally under certain orders of an elected board. If this is the case:
that we wish to give to the Indian native, peasant and Zemindar alike,
such local representation _as we can_ in spending the taxes he pays,
is the educated English taxpayer, of _whichever_ sex, to be excluded
from a share in electing the Imperial representatives? It seems a
first principle, an axiom: that _every_ householder or taxpayer should
have a voice in electing those who spend the money we pay, including,
as this does, interests the most vital to a human being--for instance,
education. At the same time I do not expect much from it, for I do not
see that, for instance in America, where suffrage is, I suppose, the
most extended, there is more (but rather less) of what may truly be
called freedom or progress than anywhere else. But there can be no
freedom or progress without representation. And we must give women the
true education to deserve being represented. _Men_ as well as women
are not so well endowed with that preparation at present. And if the
persons represented are not worth much, of course the representatives
will not be worth much.
(94) "The People of India." An article in the _Nineteenth Century_,
August 1878, pp. 193-221.
For this article, see above, p. 290.
1879
(95) _Letter from Florence Nightingale to the Probationer-Nurses in the
"Nightingale Fund" School at St. Thomas's Hospital. Easter, 1879. For
Private Use only._ Quarto, pp. 4.
This letter, dated "Easter Eve, 1879, 6 _A.M._," was also lithographed
in smaller form.
(96) St. Thomas's Hospital: _Memorandum of Instructions by Matron to
Ward Sisters on Duties to Probationers_. Dated "Easter, 1879." A
pamphlet of 4 pp.
Signed "S. E. W." (Mrs. Wardroper, the Matron), but written by F. N.
(97) "A Missionary Health Officer in India." Three articles in _Good
Words_, July, August, September 1879, pp. 492-496, 565-571, 635-640.
The first and part of the second article describe Indian Famine
relief. The rest of the second discusses, in connection with agrarian
riots in the Deccan, the evils caused by the money-lenders (for an
extract from this article, see Vol. I. p. 87 _n._). The third
describes the work of a Sanitary Commissioner in normal times with
special reference to Bombay. Both the second and the third articles
close with panegyrics of Lord Lawrence.
(98) Letter on _Co-operation in India_. Printed at pp. 219-221 of the
_Journal of the National Indian Association_, May 1879.
(99) "Irrigation and Water Transit in India." Three articles in the
_Illustrated London News_, May 10, 24, 31.
(100) _Can we educate Education in India to educate "Men"?_ Three
articles in the _Journal of the National Indian Association_, August,
September, October 1879, pp. 417-430, 478-491, 527-558.
1880
(101) _In Memoriam._ A card (pp. 4), "from F. P. V. and F. N." in memory
of Frances and William Edward Nightingale (F. N.'s mother and father).
The card was composed by F. N., whose choice of texts, etc., was
characteristic--_e.g._ "Live for Him: then come life, come death, we
are His." "God help us to use ourselves more entirely for Him in our
work."
(102) "Woman Slavery in Natal." A letter from Miss Nightingale (dated
Nov. 22, 1879) to Mr. James Heywood, printed in the _Aborigines'
Friend_, April 1880.
(103) "Hospitals and Patients." An article put into type for the
_Nineteenth Century_ of September 1880, but not used.
1881
(104) _Letter from Florence Nightingale, May 6, 1881_ [to the Nurses at
St. Thomas's Hospital]. Lithographed, pp. 16.
1882
(105) "Hints and Suggestions on Thrift." A paper printed in a monthly
journal entitled _Thrift_, January 1882, p. 4.
(106) _Training of Nurses_ and _Nursing the Sick_. Articles occupying
pp. 1038-1043, 1043-1049 of _Quain's Dictionary of Medicine_.
Copies of Miss Nightingale's article were separately struck off, as a
pamphlet (without wrapper), pp. 12. In later editions of the
Dictionary the articles were revised by Florence Nightingale Boyd.
Extracts from the original articles were printed on a card for use in
the Salisbury Infirmary, 1902.
(107) _"Infection." By Sir J. Clarke Jervoise, Bart., with Remarks by
Miss Nightingale._ Second edition. London: Vacher & Sons, 1882.
Pamphlet, in blue paper wrappers, pp. 63.
Miss Nightingale's "remarks," at pp. 62, 63, were on the first edition
of the pamphlet (published anonymously in 1867). They are an attack on
"the germ hypothesis."
1883
(108) _From Florence Nightingale to the Probationer-Nurses in the
"Nightingale Fund" Training School at St. Thomas's Hospital and to the
Nurses who were formerly trained there._ May 23, 1883. Lithographed,
pp. 13.
(109) _The Dumb shall speak, and the Deaf shall hear; or, the Ryot, the
Zemindar, and the Government._ A Paper read at a meeting of the East
India Association, and printed in its _Journal_, July 1883, pp. 163-211.
The paper was read by Mr. F. Verney, Sir Bartle Frere in the chair,
on June 1. It was reprinted separately in the same year by the
Association as a pamphlet (without wrapper, pp. 48).
(110) "Our Indian Stewardship." An article in the _Nineteenth Century_,
August 1883, pp. 329-338.
A defence of Lord Ripon's policy. The article was largely the work of
Sir William Wedderburn. "The article is an excellent one," she wrote
to him (Aug. 1), "if only it had been signed by you, and not by me."
(111) "The Bengal Tenancy Bill." An article in the _Contemporary
Review_, October 1883, pp. 587-602.
1884
(112) _Letter to the Nightingale Probationers_, dated July 3, 1884.
Printed in the _Report of the Nightingale Fund for the year 1883_, which
at p. 3 gave a report of the Annual Meeting (Lord Houghton in the chair)
whereat the letter was read.
1886
(113) _To the Probationer-Nurses of the Nightingale Fund School at St.
Thomas's Hospital. Florence Nightingale. New Year's Day, 1886._ (_For
Private Use only._) Small pamphlet (cream paper wrappers), pp. 16.
(114) _Florence Nightingale to Surgeon-Major G. J. H. Evatt._ A
fly-leaf, so entitled, printed in connection with the "Woolwich
Election, 1886."
The letter, dated June 24, 1886, commends the candidature of
Surgeon-Major Evatt on the ground of his administrative experience and
energy in "vital matters of social, sanitary, and general interest."
He stood as a Liberal and was not elected.
1887
(115) _Village Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated February 22, 1887,
to the Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency Association. Quarto,
pp. 3.
A similar letter was addressed to the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.
(116) _Note sull' Assistenza ai Malati di Miss Nightingale Tradotto e
Abbreviate da A. C._ [_Comparetti_]. Lucca: Topografia Giusti, 1887.
1888
(117) _To the Probationer-Nurses in the Nightingale Fund School at St.
Thomas's Hospital from Florence Nightingale, May 16, 1888. For Private
Use only._ Lithographed, pp. 20 (with yellow wrappers).
(118) _Sanitation in India._ "Letter from Miss Nightingale," dated
"London, July 27, 1888," published in the _Journal of the Public Health
Society_ [of Calcutta], October 1888, vol. iv. pp. 63-65.
1889
(119) _Village Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated February 20, 1889,
to the Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency Association. Quarto,
pp. 3.
The same letter, similarly printed, was also addressed "To the Joint
Secretaries of the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha." The letter was for the
most part a critical exposition of the Bombay Village Sanitation Bill;
it was noticed in the _Bombay Gazette Summary_, April 5, 1889.
1890
(120) _Sketch of the History and Progress of District Nursing. By
William Rathbone. With an Introduction by Florence Nightingale._
Dedicated by permission to Her Majesty. London: Macmillan, 1890.
The Introduction occupies pp. ix.-xxii.
1891
(121) Message to Nurses at Liverpool. Printed at p. 11 of the
_Sixty-third Annual Report of the Royal Southern Hospital_. Liverpool:
1904.
The message was sent in February 1891 on the occasion of the opening
of the Nursing Home. One of the wards of the Hospital is named after
Miss Nightingale.
(122) _Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated February 16, 1891, to the
Joint Secretaries of the Bombay Presidency Association. Quarto, pp. 3.
The same letter was also addressed to the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.
(123) _Sanitation in India._ A letter, dated December 1891, to Rao
Bahadur Vishnu Moreshwar Bhide, Chairman, Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.
Quarto, pp. 3.
These open letters, intended for "distribution to local associations
and influential Indian gentlemen," attracted much notice in the Indian
press. A selection of press comments upon them was printed in the
_Indian Spectator_, July 10, 1892. There was also a notice of No. 121
in the _Times_ of January 10, 1892, in the weekly review of "Indian
Affairs" by Sir W. W. Hunter. "Miss Nightingale's letter forms," he
said, "a brief, but practical code of village sanitation."
1892
(124) _Village Sanitation in India._ Letter from Miss Nightingale to the
Secretary of State for India (Lord Cross), dated March 1892, enclosing a
Memorandum signed by members of the India Committee of the International
Congress on Hygiene and Demography (1891). Printed in _India_, July 15,
1892, pp. 200.
See Vol. II. p. 379.
(125) Introduction to _Behramji M. Malabari: a Biographical Sketch_, by
Dayaram Gidumal. London: Fisher Unwin, 1892.
Miss Nightingale's Introduction occupies pp. v.-viii.
(126) Health at Home. Letters in the _Report of the Training of Rural
Health Missioners and of their Village Lecturing and Visiting under the
Bucks County Council: 1891-92._ Winslow: E. J. French. Pamphlet, pp. 50.
There are three letters by F. N.: (1) a letter (dated Oct. 17, 1891)
to Mr. Frederick Verney on the importance of training rural health
missioners; (2) a letter, dated October 1892, to "Village Mothers,"
pp. 14, 15; (3) a letter, dated November 21, 1892, reporting on the
experiment and urging its continuance (see Vol. II. p. 384).
(127) _Cholera: What we can do?_ By George H. De'Ath, medical officer
of health for Buckingham. Buckingham: Walford & Son. Pamphlet, in green
paper wrappers, pp. 19.
The last pages (18, 19) were contributed by F. N. An appeal to fight
against cholera by preventive sanitation; "for if cholera does not
come we are winning the day against fever," etc.
(128) "Hospitals." Article in _Chambers' Encyclopædia_, new edition,
revised and partly re-written by F. N.
(129) _Royal British Nurses' Association._ "Remarks by Miss Nightingale
on a Register for Nurses."
This was part of the case against the Royal Charter argued before the
Privy Council in November 1892. Among Miss Nightingale's Papers are
the original MS., a typed copy, and a MS. copy on brief paper made by
the Solicitors for the opponents. I include it in the Bibliography,
assuming that it was printed for the Privy Council.
(130) "Mrs. Wardroper." A memorial notice of the late matron of St.
Thomas's Hospital, printed simultaneously, December 31, 1892, in the
_British Medical Journal_ (under the title "The Reform of Sick Nursing
and the late Mrs. Wardroper") and in the _Hospital Nursing Supplement_
("A Nursing Worthy").
For extracts, see Vol. I. p. 458.
1893
(131) "Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing." A Paper in pp. 184-205 of
_Woman's Mission: a Series of Congress Papers on the Philanthropic Work
of Women by Eminent Writers_. Arranged and edited, with a Preface and
Notes, by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. London: Sampson Low, Marston &
Co., 1893. A publication issued by the Royal British Commission, Chicago
Exhibition, 1893.
The main part of the paper occupies pp. 184-199. Then comes an
"Addendum" on District Nursing, with an account of the Bucks
"Health-Nurse Training" system and "Syllabus of Lectures to Health
Missioners."
(132) "Health Lectures for Indian Villages." A Paper printed in _India_,
October 1893, pp. 305-306.
1894
(133) "Health and Local Government." An Introduction (pp. i.-ii.) to
_Report of the Bucks Sanitary Conference, October 1894_. Aylesbury:
Poulton & Co.
Miss Nightingale's Introduction was also separately printed as a small
fly-leaf, pp. 2, headed _Health and Local Government, by Florence
Nightingale_.
(134) _Health Teaching in Towns and Villages. Rural Hygiene. By Florence
Nightingale._ London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1894.
A pamphlet, pp. 27. Reprinted from a Paper read at the Conference of
Women Workers held at Leeds, November 7 to 10, 1893. The Paper is also
printed in the _Official Report of the Conference_ (Leeds, 1894),
pp. 46-60.
(135) _Village Sanitation in India._ A Paper for the Tropical Section of
the 8th International Congress of Hygiene and Demography at Budapest. A
pamphlet (without wrappers), pp. 8; signed "Florence Nightingale.
London: August 20th, 1894."
The "Memorandum" of 1892 (No. 122) was reprinted as an Appendix.
1895
(136) _Birds._ A letter, dated Feb. 4, 1895, to "Uncle Toby" of the
Dicky Bird Society, printed in the _Newcastle Chronicle's_ Weekly
Supplement, February 16.
1896
(137) "A Few Lines to Workhouse Nurses." A Supplement (pp. 53-57) to
_Agnes Jones; or, She hath done what she could_. By Mrs. Roundell,
London: Bickers & Sons, 1896.
A few sentences from Miss Nightingale's Supplement are reproduced in
facsimile as a frontispiece to this little book.
(138) "Health Missioners for Rural India." An article in _India_,
December 1896, pp. 359-360.
1897
(139) _To the Nurses and Probationers trained under the "Nightingale
Fund," June 1897._ Octavo, pp. 17 (in plain white wrappers).
1898
(140) _A Letter from Florence Nightingale about the Victorian Order of
Nurses in Canada._ A small pamphlet, in white paper wrappers, pp. 4.
The letter, to Lady Aberdeen, is dated May 5, 1898. It is stated at
the end of the pamphlet, "The original of this letter is written
entirely by Miss Florence Nightingale's own hand." There is no
imprint.
1899
(141) The Soldier in War-time. Letter to the Balaclava Survivors,
printed in the _Daily Graphic_, October 26, 1899.
This letter uses some of the phrases quoted at Vol. II. p. 411.
1900
(142) _To all our Nurses, May 28, 1900._ Lithographed, pp. 12.
Miss Nightingale's hand-writing in this letter shows little sign of
age. It is bold and clear.
(143) _Letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh._ Printed at p. 26 of an
official and illustrated account, compiled by A. A. Gordon, of the
_Edinburgh and East of Scotland Hospital for South Africa_ (Blackwood &
Sons).
For the occasion of this letter, see Vol. II. p. 411.
1901
(144) _In Memory of Robert James Baron Wantage, V.C., K.C.B._ A
privately printed memoir, containing on p. 53 a letter from Miss
Nightingale.
The letter, dated June 12, 1901, includes these words: "Lord Wantage
is a great loss, but he has been a great gain. And what he has gained
for us can never be lost. It is my experience that such men exist only
in England: a man who had everything (to use the common phrase) which
this world could give him, but who worked as hard, and to the last, as
the poorest able man--and all for others--for the common weal. A man
whose life makes a great difference for all: _all_ are better off than
if he had not lived; and this betterness is for always, it does not
die with him--that is the true estimate of a great life." These words
were quoted at the head of an article on Lord Wantage in the
_Edinburgh Review_, January 1902.
(145) _Appeal on behalf of the Invalid Hospital for Gentlewomen, Harley
Street._ Letter in the _Times_, November 12, 1901.
Reprinted in the Annual Reports of the Institution for 1902, 1903,
etc. The letter, though signed Florence Nightingale, bears no mark of
her style, and is not quite accurate in its account of her early
association with the hospital (see Vol. I. p. 133). The letter is said
to have been written for Miss Nightingale by Mrs. Dicey. The
institution, re-christened "The Florence Nightingale Hospital for
Gentlewomen," is now in new quarters in Lisson-grove.
1905
(146) _New Year's Message from Florence Nightingale to the Nursing Staff
of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, January 1905._ Printed on a card.
"I pray with all my heart that God will bless the work abundantly in
Edinburgh Infirmary, and enable the workers to do it for Him, in the
love which we owe Him."
(147) _Message to the Crimean Veterans._ Printed at p. 47 of a pamphlet
entitled _The Crimean and Indian Mutiny Veterans' Association, Bristol_.
Bristol, 1905.
One of the last messages sent by Miss Nightingale. The anniversaries
celebrated by the Veterans, she says, "have always been marked days
to her also."
APPENDIX B
LIST OF SOME WRITINGS ABOUT MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
(_For the limited scope of this list, see the Preface_, Vol. I. p. viii.)
1854
(1) Letter in the _Times_, October 24, by "One who has known Miss
Nightingale."
(2) "Who is 'Mrs.' Nightingale?" A biographical article in the
_Examiner_ (reprinted in the _Times_, October 30).
These two communications fixed the popular idea of Miss Nightingale.
For the article in the _Examiner_, see Vol. I. p. 164.
1855
(3) Bracebridge. "British Hospitals in the East." Report in the _Times_,
October 16, 1855, of a lecture given at Coventry by Mr. C. H.
Bracebridge, supplemented by a letter from him in the _Times_, October
20.
For a reference to this lecture, see Vol. I. p. 287. The report
contains many particulars of Miss Nightingale's services and
difficulties.
(4) _The "Record" and Miss Nightingale. Remarks on two Articles
contained in the "Record" of February 1, and March 8, 1855._ London:
Nisbet, 1855.
This pamphlet throws light on the _odium theologicum_, see Vol. I.
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