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Florence Nightingale Letters

[Letter, Edward Tyas Cook to Rosalind Nash, May 21, 1913] Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919

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Concerns various exhibits such as "the Egg" and a portrait by the German court painter, Winterhalter, asking Mrs. Nash's comments. Mentions copyright permissions for use of Sir Harry Verney's, Sir Sidney Herbert's and Florence Nightingale's letters to the Mohls, and provenance of the last-named.

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