[2 Letters]- Florence NIGHTINGALE- 1- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir Thomas Longmore).

\2 pages, 34, South Street, Grosvenor Square, W. Oct 4, (18)65, "My dear Sir, I was sorry but not surprised at your note- how sorry I need hardly say. I have taken such steps as I could- & hope to have to write to you again about it. I at least have nothing new to say; in repeating to the W.O. what I have always said that you have made a hearty sacrifice of yourself & that they were not men, if they accepted of it. But we have hardly a man now in the ?" SIGNED: F Nightingale; 2- Autograph Letter (To Sir Thomas Longmore). 4 pages + 3 Half pages, 115 Park St. W. July 23, (18)64, "My dear Sir, I am afraid you will be rather surprised at me writing to you on the following subject. But not so much surprised as I am at being desired to do so. Lord de Grey is about to request you & Dr. Rutherford to represent the W.O. at the general conference in August- & wishes you to have an authorized W.O. account with you as our position for sick & wounded in the Brit. Army. ..". and goes on "If the present regulations are not sufficient to provide for wounded, they should be made so. But it would be an error to revert to a voluntary system; or to weaken the military character of the present system by introducing..." The middle part of page 5 has been cut off where the signature would have been at the verso, i.e. page 6, hence no signature. (2)

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.