Florence NIGHTINGALE- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir Thomas Longmore). 4 pages

/ half-page (One sheet, folded), 35 South Street, Park Lane, W.. April 3, (18)76. "My dear Sir, I assure you that I have never undervalued the Chair of Military Surgery, nor the priceless importance of the services of its present occupant; & if there can be an "especially", where all is so important, especially of his acting as a "Consulting" Govt. Servant both with foreign countries & in his own; of his keeping us "au courant" of foreign improvements, of his forming a museum of Military Surgery. If you had seen the letter which I was invited to write, you could hardly have thought but that I went even beyond yourself in attaching value to these things; but not beyond the truth...". Signed in full "Florence Nightingale"

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.