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Florence Nightingale Letters

[Letter, Florence Nightingale to (unknown), May 13, 1893] Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

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Florence Nightingale, 10 South Street, Park Lane, London W. to [Unknown]. Family news including Rosalind Shore's marriage to Vaughan Nash in 1892, Shore Smith's illness, Arthur Clough's marriage to Miss Freshfield. Comments on her own confinement to bed in contrast with Sir Harry Verney's good health. States the misfortune of Princess Christian's registration of nurses scheme; sanitation improving in India; wrote paper: Sick-nursing and health-nursing, (presented at Chicago Conference in 1893); notes that Empress Frederick came to see her. Shore Smiths have now taken the name Nightingale.

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Title
[Letter, Florence Nightingale to (unknown), May 13, 1893]
Creator
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Date Created
1893-05-13
Description
Florence Nightingale, 10 South Street, Park Lane, London W. to [Unknown]. Family news including Rosalind Shore's marriage to Vaughan Nash in 1892, Shore Smith's illness, Arthur Clough's marriage to Miss Freshfield. Comments on her own confinement to bed in contrast with Sir Harry Verney's good health. States the misfortune of Princess Christian's registration of nurses scheme; sanitation improving in India; wrote paper: Sick-nursing and health-nursing, (presented at Chicago Conference in 1893); notes that Empress Frederick came to see her. Shore Smiths have now taken the name Nightingale.
Extent
8 unnumbered pages
Person Or Corporation
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910; Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861; Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840-1901; Nash, Rosalind Nightingale; Nash, Vaughan, 1861-1932; Verney, Harry, Sir, 1801-1894
Genre
Correspondence
Type
Text
File Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Identifier
RBSC-ARC-1734-01-068; RBSC_ARC_1734_01_068
Collection
Florence Nightingale fonds
Source
Original Format: University of British Columbia Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Florence Nightingale Collection.RBSC-ARC-1734-01-068
Date Available
2012
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
AIPUUID
b3fa72ed-bd0f-4b5d-b6aa-de9b67796cf8
DOI
10.14288/1.0018148
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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/