[2 Letters]- Florence NIGHTINGALE- 1- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir James Clark). 8 pages.

Hampstead, NW. Aug 3 (18)63. "My dear Sir James Clark, I sent, av by your kind permission, a copy of my paper, for the Queen, under cover to you. 2. About the Army Medc. Dep. & the want of candidates, I have long thought it a most serious matter, and I have told Lord de Grey so, and that the original Warrant must be restored in all its integrity, or the Medc. Dept. will be lost...".. "3. I should have liked very much to have seen you for a few minutes as you were so kind, as to propose at Cleveland Row; "4. If you like to keep my copy of the two folios, instead of sending it to the King of the Belgians, by all means do so. But I write to you, as I do to all my friends of influence:- apply to the India Office & War Office..."... SIGNED on top of page one: F. Nightingale; 2- Autograph Letter (To Sir James Clark). 4 pages only of? Hampstead, NW. Aug 21 (18)63. "My dear Sir James Clark, 1. Mr. Paget has written me a capital letter, as one of the examiners, with permission to show it to Lord de Grey- on the subject of the paucity of candidates..", "2. I do not apprehend any injury to the Queen's Service from the separation of the Services in India. The pay & allowances of Queen's officers ought to be sufficient to provide a supply, if no other countervailing reason exists. But, as there must be...".. " 3. Will you ask Mr." ends there. The other page(s) missing. (2)

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.