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Florence Nightingale Letters

[Letter, Florence Nightingale to Julius Mohl, November 17, 1870] Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

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Florence Nightingale to Julius Mohl. Explains that chloroform needed at the site of the Battle of the Loire, near Orleans, Poitiers, Blois and Tours and not Versailles where 5000 wounded are being cared for. States that she will be sending information on items sent to Germany.

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