NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Reformer of nursing.
Good Autograph Letter Signed (name of the recipient scored out), 4 pages 8vo, 35 South Street, Park Lane, 16 February 1867. Discussing the training of nursing superintendents, and characteristically bewailing her ill health and inability to write.

'... We do not look out for situations for ladies - we train them for situations.
 With regard to the female Nursing Service for Military Hospitals, it is entirely under the Superintendent-General, Mrs Shaw Stewart ... she would give you every information you seek. ...
 The same thing I can say for ourselves. We desire to find ladies to be trained as Hospital Superintendents for whom there is an ever increasing demand, with good salaries, for Hospitals both at home, in the Colonies & in India. The demand is, in fact, far beyond our power of supply. ...'

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