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

35 South Street, Park Lane, W. April 26, (18)76, Marked: "Strictly Private", & "Burn". "Professor Longmore. My dear Sir, I feel as if I ought to keep you "au courant" of affairs as far as I know them; as you have been so good as to keep me. your "Statement", most able- & perfectly unanswerable, was sent in to the W.O. but was not forwarded to Mr. Hardy..." and goes on " I am too old & worn to be habitually ?; but I assure you there seems good reason to hope that the School may be developed, so it deserves instead of "abolished"... . SIGNED: F Nightingale; 2- Autograph notes, 4 half pages: No place, No date: Army Medical School history, written in Miss. Nightingale's hand, about the professor of Pathology receiving a less salary than the other professors at the first starting of the school. She writes: "It is necessary to explain how it came to pass that, while a professor of the Army Medical School at Netley had each a salary of £700 a year, the fourth professor has only £600. It arose as follows: at the time of the R. Commission on the..." Not signed. (2)

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.