"b3fa72ed-bd0f-4b5d-b6aa-de9b67796cf8"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "Florence Nightingale fonds"@en . "Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910"@en . "2012"@en . "1875-06-18"@en . "Florence Nightingale, Abbotsleigh, Church Road, Upper Norwood, S.E. to Mary Mohl (nee Clarke). Is staying here while her mother recovers - with servants and Miss Joby. Invitation to Mme. Mohl to stay at her London house when visiting. Letter finished 25 June, 1875."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/florence/items/1.0018119/source.json"@en . "4 unnumbered pages"@en . "image/jpeg"@en . " A.43 Signed letter from Nightingale to Madame Mohl, Pen and pencil, Handwritten by Nightingale, Dated June 18/75 & additions dated June 25/75 at end of letter [8:587-88] Upper Norwood June 18/75 Dearest Madame Mohl I am glad & sorry to hear that you are at Hastings (St. Leonard's) -- sorry that you are alone: but you are always a host to yourself= of course you are finishing your book. I am `out of humanity's reach': in a red Villa like a Monster Lobster: a place which has no `raison d'\u00EAtre' except the raison d'\u00EAtre of Lobsters or Crabs: viz. to go backwards: & to feed & be fed on: in charge of my Mother. by Doctor's orders, as her only chance of recovering strength enough to see once more her old home (Lea Hurst) after which she cruelly craved. Here she is happy: happy at least as compared with her miserable unhappiness in London. Stranger vicissitudes than mine in life few men have had: vicissitudes from slavery to power: & from power to slavery again: -- it does not seem like a `vicissitude' a villa at Norwood: yet it is the strangest I yet have had. It is the only time for 22 years that my work has not been the first reason for deciding where I should live: & how I should live. Here it is the last. It is the caricature of a life: Dearest Madame Mohl: this letter begun, the moment I received yours, has been lying by me a week. If I try to finish it, I shall never send it. We are here, & Miss Irby is with us (you ask where she is) at Abbotsleigh Church Road Upper Norwood S. I. We are so crowded that we cannot even ask a friend to sleep a great, great grievance: Miss Irby sleeps in the study: the Housekeeper in my room: & 3 Servants in lodgings. Please write, if you are so good as to write, to 35 South St: And if you could make use of that house when you are in London, I should be so glad. I have had a charming letter from M. Mohl: but have no strength to answer it Could you send him this? God bless you: } ever your my dear, dear friend} old Flo June 25/75"@en . "Correspondence"@en . "RBSC-ARC-1734-01-042"@en . "RBSC_ARC_1734_01_042"@en . "10.14288/1.0018119"@en . "English"@en . "Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "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/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Florence Nightingale Collection.RBSC-ARC-1734-01-042"@en . "[Letter, Florence Nightingale to Mary Mohl, June 18, 1875]"@en . "Text"@en .