Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, 1820-1910
"Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the tending to wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of ""The Lady with the Lamp"" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night. In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world."
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British social reformer (1820-1910). Autograph letter signed. Park Lane W. [London]. 2.12.1899. 8vo. 2 pp. Mourning paper. Double sheet. With holograph envelope. Pencil.
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A rare holograph letter penned in pencil to Miss Gethen: „I am so sorry to put you off. But they say I must not see anybody just yet. Not even […] 2 am. Love yours F.Nightingale | I besieged with questions from Ladies as to what they could do ,for the soldiers’ - I believe they mean chiefly in needlework. I wanted to ask your advice as to what to answer. One doen not know what they can do. Also: God finds many thinkgs now which they did not use to the Flannel shirts used to be the cry. Could you help me to answer? F.N.“