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(Books & Works on Paper including Autographs & Memorabilia, 31st March 2020) Nightingale (Florence) Nightingale (Florence) Autograph letter signed ('F. Nightingale') to her housekeeper's daughter Fanny Dowding, written in pencil and reading "I am very sorry that you are going to leave Mrs Mewburn and very sorry indeed that you have had this strain and this cough. You will go, you tell me, to Louise's for a time. Write to me from there, and give me your address from there correctly. You will see the 'good little baby' again. I shall be anxious to see you, but I cannot ask you here just now, because it is just as much as I can do to get through my daily work which is very heavy. I have been so ill. But you shall run up some fine day from Louise and sleep here. We will settle the time", three pages, folding marks, minor soiling, small 4to, 10 South Street [London], 13 December 1888; with mailing envelope addressed in Nightingale's hand to Fanny Dowding and postmarked January 1889.