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

4 pages, 32, South Street, Grosvenor Square, W. Nov. 8, (18)62, Marked "Private". "My dear Sir, I should be very sorry that you should think that your kind & wise letter of May (?) last had been neglected. I have always had it in my head. I wrote to the W.O. about it, But as you did not write your name to the mentioned, they required some quote-able medical authority..." and goes on to refer to Sir James Clark and Dr. Parkes, etc.. [Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet, KCB was a Scottish physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1860, and was previously physician to poet John Keats in Rome]. SIGNED: F Nightingale; 2- Autograph Letter (To Sir Thomas Longmore). 6 1/2 pages, 30 Old Burlington St. June 19, (18) 61, "Dear Sir, I was exceedingly sorry to find that after you had so kindly offered to open a ?? Line for "soldiers' Homes" (at Chatham) and after Gibson had consented to be present at the meeting, a provoking mistake had occurred during, as Capt. P. Jackson himself said to his "want of experience in conducting the business of a public meeting". [Capt. Pilkington Jackson, R.A. was the originator of the Soldiers' Homes at ??].... "And later But we are very anxious to extend, especially to Aldershot, where..." Half of the last page snipped off, hence no signature. (2)

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.