Florence NIGHTINGALE- Autograph Letter SIGNED (To Sir James Clark). 8 pages.

30, Old Burlington St. July 24 (18)60. "My dear Sir James Clark, I had an opportunity on Sunday of mentioning to Mr. Herbert the proposal you mentioned to me for removing the Army Medc. School from Chatham to Aldershot. He at once stated that he could not entertain such a proposal. After ample consideration, Chatham had been seized upon as the site of a temporary school. ..." And "If all of you had inspected Aldershot at the time you inspected Chatham for this purpose, you would have chosen Chatham, in preference, for a School, on account of its greater temporary advantages...." SIGNED in full Florence Nightingale.

Provenance:

From the Sir Thomas Longmore Library.