Nightingale (Florence) Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale') to Miss Mary Erskine, reading "I have often thought, you know, of the possibility that you and I might have worked together in Army Hospitals. That future is, I believe, over for me. But I wish I might think that some day would see you working there, for the sake of our men. I venture to send you a copy of a 'Confidential' Report of mine to the War Office. Which is really confidential, and I will thank you not to let anyone else see it, nor even to mention that you have it. I think it might interest you to see a real account of our Crimean disaster, about which there has been so much unreal rant and cant. It is an old story now - But we have not let it become an old story at the War Office", three pages, folding marks, 8vo, 30 Old Burlington Street, 1 December 1858; with original mailing envelope addressed in Nightingale's hand. ***Provenance: The descendants of Mary Erskine, a volunteer nurse at the Naval Hospital at Therapia during the Crimean was. She nursed Florence Nightingale when she was ill and they kept in touch. Mary Erskine became superintendent of the hospital at Therapia.
Nightingale (Florence) Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale') to Miss Mary Erskine, reading "I have often thought, you know, of the possibility that you and I might have worked together in Army Hospitals. That future is, I believe, over for me. But I wish I might think that some day would see you working there, for the sake of our men. I venture to send you a copy of a 'Confidential' Report of mine to the War Office. Which is really confidential, and I will thank you not to let anyone else see it, nor even to mention that you have it. I think it might interest you to see a real account of our Crimean disaster, about which there has been so much unreal rant and cant. It is an old story now - But we have not let it become an old story at the War Office", three pages, folding marks, 8vo, 30 Old Burlington Street, 1 December 1858; with original mailing envelope addressed in Nightingale's hand. ***Provenance: The descendants of Mary Erskine, a volunteer nurse at the Naval Hospital at Therapia during the Crimean was. She nursed Florence Nightingale when she was ill and they kept in touch. Mary Erskine became superintendent of the hospital at Therapia.
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