[2 Letters]- Florence NIGHTINGALE- 1- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir James Clark). 7 pages.

30, Old Burlington St. London, W. Oct 5, (18)58. "My dear Sir James Clark, You will receive by this post (or next) a copy of my "Precis" for yourself. It is of course "Confidential", as I have no right to give away any copies. It has been presented to the War Office. The copy for the Queen is being bound, & I shall then send it to you, & ask you to be so kind as to present it. I should have liked to have sent a copy (similarly) through to the Duchess of Kent & to the Princess Royal, if you approved. I don't know if it would be proper to send one to Prince Consort. Perhaps you will let me know..." And "I read the article you allude to in the Examiner, and also I had the misfortune to have to read the report & appendices of the Netley Committee. I think I never read such a mass of contradictions- of operations which showed such an utter absence of knowledge of the most ordinary sanitary principles,.." And finishes "With my best love to Lady Clark & all yours, beside me, dear Sir James ever sincerely yours obliged, F. Nightingale"; 2- Autograph Letter SIGNED? (To Sir James Clark). 6 pages. 30, Old Burlington St. London, W. 29-11- (18)58. "My dear Sir James Clark, I entirely sympathize with Dr. Mathew's? Disappointment & impatience- Because I have been in a state of disappointment & impatience myself for upwards of two years, and the only things we have really done, yet are the station & the Barrack improvements. But, I do not entertain the least doubt of the school being carried [and by nature & experience a sanguine mind having been denied me, it is not from sanguineness I think so]... The end of page 5/6 the signature snipped off, and on the next page (7) it continues and with the signature F. Nightingale (possibly by a different hand). (2)

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.