Letters to Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890)

Date:
1855-1868
Reference:
MS.5479
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Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
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Letters to Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890). Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Letters to Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817-1890), mainly concerning the reform of the Army Medical Service, military hospitals and nursing. Included are letters from Balaclava and Scutari, with a full list and details of the nursing establishment there in 1855. This includes a list compiled by Nightingale of nurses who had worked with her up to November 1855, including those no longer with her and the reasons for their departure.

Publication/Creation

1855-1868

Physical description

35 items

Acquisition note

Sotheby's 8-11 April 1919, lots 773-779.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Florence Nightingale Digitisation Project. Part of a list of nurses employed by Nightingale has been photographed and is held at L40154

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

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  • acc. 67280-67285