Florence NIGHTINGALE- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir Thomas Longmore). 6 pages

/ half-page (two sheets, folded), 35 South Street, Park Lane, W.. March 31, (18)76. "My dear Sir, I am concerned beyond measure at what you are so good as to write to me, & am at the same time very thankful to you for writing it. Depend upon me that I will do, am doing, what I can: but that is, alas, so little now, and I am so overworked [I will not mention your name]- I agree with every word you say: The short service argument is most extraordinary; that is to say: That short service= Netley training , one would think the argument was just the other way. Viz, that 4 moths' training was too little for a man who has to gain his experience & do his work all in 10 years....." Finished the last page in pencil and Signed in full "Florence Nightingale", and "Private"

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.