A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale.

  • Edge, Frederick Milnes.
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A woman's example, and a nation's work : a tribute to Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material is part of the Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection. The original may be consulted at University of California Libraries.

    18/94 (page 16)
    Feeling themselves directly to represent larg-e and irajwr- tAnt constituencies, and, indirectly, a wide-spread and com- manding public sentiment, the Committee would most respect- fully urge the mmiediatc attention of the Secretary to the objects of their prayer. ; Very respectfullj-, Henry W. Bellows, D.D. W. H. Van Bueen, M.D. ■ Elisha Hakris, M.D. '^ J. Harsex, M.D. Thus commenced an association which has since developed into what is now known as ^^ The United States Sanitary Commission ;*' an association whose operations extend over an area almost as large as the continent of Europe, and whose voluntary contributions to suffering humanity have, in less than three years' time, nearly reached the enormous sum of Two Mil- lions of pounds sterling in value. STRUGGLES FOR RECOGNITION. Nothing, it would seem, could be more rea- sonable and respectful than such a memorial; and yet the representatives of these influential and patriotic bodies were not_, at first, favoura- bly regarded by the authorities. Routine, however necessary in government afiairs, is never disposed to listen to suggestions; and