Florence NIGHTINGALE- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir Thomas Longmore). 3 pages,

35, South Street, Grosvenor Square, W. March 18, (18)67, Marked "Burn". "My dear Sir, I have done all I can in the Surgeon- Majors matter, &, as far as I know, without the slightest success. I am told that there is "nothing for it but to have a question asked about it in the House of Commons." I would gladly arrange for this being done, but that I do not expect any good from it. The Secretary of State would certainly answer (what is time/ that it was done with the concurrence (if not at the instigation of the Director General. Now too, and Sir John Pakington, who knows nothing about his business- will be too glad to have this answer..." SIGNED in full: "Florence Nightingale", (written in pencil)

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.