The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Sir Edward Tyas Cook
CHAPTER VI
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NEW MASTERS
(1866)
Public events in 1866 in relation to Miss Nightingale's work.
Letters on those events. II. The story of a lost dispatch. Sir John
Lawrence's scheme for sanitary organization in India--Miss
Nightingale's anxiety to have it revised before the Liberal
Government fell--The Dispatch lost at the India Office: found by
Lord Ripon--His reply to it drafted, when the government fell.
III. Miss Nightingale's vexation--Dr. Sutherland's absence--Visit
from Lord Napier on his appointment to the governorship of Madras.
IV. The Conservative Government--Miss Nightingale's desire to come
in touch with the new ministers--Correspondence with Lord Cranborne
(India Office) and Mr. Gathorne Hardy (Poor Law Board). V. The
Austro-Prussian War--Miss Nightingale and war-nursing--
Correspondence with the Princess Alice and the Crown Princess of
Prussia. VI. A holiday at Embley with her mother--Private
meditations 104
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