NIGHTINGALE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND VICTORIAN SOCIETY

From the British Library, London

Part 1: Correspondence Relating to the Crimea, India and Public Health Reform
Part 2: Family Letters and Correspondence with Clough, Jowett, Martineau, Mill and others
Part 3: Writings on Nursing, India, Religion, Philosophy and other subjects with correspondence regarding the Nightingale Fund
Part 4: Correspondence with Nursing Staff and Papers Relating to St Thomas's Hospital and other subjects

Contents of Reels - Part 2

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Correspondence with Benjamin Jowett
Master of Balliol College, Oxford 1862-August 1871

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Correspondence with Benjamin Jowett
Master of Balliol College, Oxford Oct 1871-1873

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Correspondence with Benjamin Jowett
Master of Balliol College, Oxford 1874-1893
Papers of Florence Nightingale relating to E Abbott and L Campbell
'The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett' (1897) 1894-1896

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Correspondence with Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, KCB, 1st Baronet of Oxford, 1890, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford 1867-1897

Correspondence with Henry Burrard Farnall, C B Poor Law Board Inspector 1865-1867

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Correspondence with John Stuart Mill 1860-1868

Correspondence with The Hon Charles Pelham Villiers, MP 1864-1867

Correspondence with Gathorne Hardy, afterwards Gathorne-Hardy, Viscount (1878)and 1st Earl of Cranbrook 1892 1866-1877

Correspondence with Sir William Henry Wyatt, the social reformer 1868-1878

Correspondence with Thomas Spring-Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle, and his wife Elizabeth 1896-1898

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Correspondence with Harriet Martineau 1858-1871

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Typewritten copies of letters to Mrs Georgiana Moore,
Mother Superior of the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Bermondsey 1856-1868

Lettersfrom Adeline Paulina Irby, traveller 1870-1879

Correspondence with Mary Carpenter, social reformer 1867-1876

Correspondence with Julia Salis Schwabe, wife of Salis Schwabe, of Bangor 1861-1866

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Correspondence with Florence Nightingale?s parents 1850-1869

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Correspondence with Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet 1859-1896

Correspondence with her sister Frances Parthenope, second wife (1858) of Sir Harry Verney 1847-1888

Correspondence with Frederick William Verney (M P 1906) fourth son of Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet 1886-1900

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Correspondence with her uncle Samuel Smith followed by correspondence ofthe latter's wife Mary (Aunt Mai?) with Florence and other members of her family 1856-1861

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Correspondence with her uncle Samuel Smith followed by correspondence ofthe latter's wife Mary (Aunt Mai?) with Florence and other members of her family 1862-1872

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Letters to her aunt Hannah Nicholson 1844-1854

Correspondence with her cousin Joanna Hilary Bonham Carter 1843-1863

Correspondence with Edith Joanna Bonham Carter 1893-1899

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Correspondence with Arthur Hugh Clough, the poet, husband of Blanche Mary Shore-Smith 1858-1861

Correspondence with her cousin William Shore-Smith, afterwards Shore-Nightingale, and letters to his wife, Louisa Eleanor 1859-1889

Letters to Rosalind Frances Mary Shore-Smith, afterwards Shore-Nightingale 1880-1900

Lettersto the former's husband, Vaughan Nash C B 1909 1894-1900

Lettersto Florence Nightingale's executors 1912

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General Correspondence 1852 - Correspondents include: Lady Canning, July 1857 Elizabeth Frere, Lady Inglis, Lord Palmerston, Lord Grey. Included also isa list of nurses at St Mary's Hospital

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General Correspondence Oct 1857 - Correspondents include: Lord Carnarvon,Sept 1861
G W Hastings of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, WCottiswood, Mrs Gaskell.

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General Correspondence Oct 1861- Correspondents include: Sir William Heathcote Sept 1864, John Stanley, Nightingale nurses

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General Correspondence Oct 1864 - Correspondents include: Sir William Heathcote, June 1866, Charlotte Balfour, Maria P Pye of the Tarban Creek LunaticAsylum in New South Wales, George Carr

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General Correspondence July 1866 - Correspondents include: Thomas Watsonthe March 1868 Chairman of the Committee on Workhouse Infirmaries, Charles Francis, Surgeon Major in the Indian Army

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General Correspondence April 1868 - Correspondents include: Sir William Heathcote, April 1869 Mary Campbell, Louisa Freeman the Lady Superintendent of Nurses at the Workhouse Infirmary in Liverpool, the Birmingham branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, J H Barnes of the Lying-in Department ofthe Liverpool Workhouse

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General Correspondence May 1869-1871 - Correspondents include: Louisa Freeman of the Workhouse Infirmary in Liverpool, J H Barnes of the Lying-in Department of the Liverpool Workhouse, also included are detailed plans forlying-in hospitals, and Nightingale's notes on the training of midwives.

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General Correspondence 1872-July 1874 - Correspondents include: Clara Manning, Mary Merryweather, Robert Hamilton, Charlotte Helmsdorfer

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General Correspondence Aug 1874 - Correspondents include: E J M Mackenzie, Dec 1877 Ann Clark, Mary Lyons a nurse at Edinburgh Hospital, Julie Gardiner,George Frere, Helen Bonham Carter, Heywood Smith

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General Correspondence 1878-1879
Correspondents include: G H Haughton Surgeon Major at the Herbert Hospital, Alice Fisher at Addenbrooke?s Hospital, Cambridge

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General Correspondence 1880-June 1882
Correspondents include: Mary Cadbury from the Liverpool Infirmary, Helen Blower, Louisa Twining from the Association for Promoting Trained Nursing in Workhouse Infirmaries and Sick Asylums, A Toynbee

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General Correspondence July 1882-
Correspondents include: Sir James Caird, Sept 1887, A Toynbee, Mary Cadbury at the Liverpool Infirmary, Sir Arthur Cotton, Sir William Wedderburn Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Miss Anderson the Superintendent of nurses at St Thomas's Hospital, SirF Roberts re homes for sick nurses and sanitation in army hospitals in India

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General Correspondence Nov 1887- Correspondents include: Mabel Formby, CG Lock, Sept 1888 Lydia Constable of the Gordon Boys' Home, Lord Dufferin. Also included are proposals for a village nursing association and for a new hospitalfor women and a list of the duties of a nursing superintendent

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General Correspondence Oct 1888-
Correspondents include: Lord Cross Principal April 1890 Secretary of State forIndia, Lydia Constable of the Gordon Boys' Home, Lady Roseberry re nursing the sick at home, Mrs Fawcett

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General Correspondence May 1890-Correspondents include; Charlotte Elkington, ct 1891 Lydia Constable of the Gordon Boys' Home, Othian Nicholson, Elizabeth Grundy

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General Correspondence Nov 1891-
Correspondents include: Lord Cross re sanitation July 1893 in India, Horace Walpole, Rosalind Paget, British Nursing Associations, Francis Cameron at St Thomas's

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General Correspondence Aug 1893-
Correspondents include: Sir William Wedderburn, Jan 1895 Rosalind Paget, MaryHerbert, The Dicky Bird Society promoting humane ideas in children

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General Correspondence Feb 1895-
Correspondents include: G Snodgrass at the Royal Oct 1896 Military Academy,Dublin, the North London Nursing Association, the Cottage Hospital Faringdon, the Episcopal Hospital, Philadephia, USA, John R Lunn the Medical Superintendent at St Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, Sir William Wedderburn re women's suffrage, Jane Wilson the treasurer of the WorkhouseInfirmary Nursing Association

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General Correspondence Nov 1896-
Correspondents include: Dr Theodore Acland, Aug 1897 H Babington Smith, SirWilliam Wedderburn, Charlotte Macleod, G Snodgrass at the Royal Military Academy, Dublin, Sydney Holland, Alice Ruddock, a Nightingale nurse in India, Florence Haig Brown at St Thomas's Hospital, Maud Mary Wilberforce an English nurse in Havana, Cuba. Also included are diaries of the daily work in the hospital undertaken by Nightingale nurses whilst undergoing training

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General Correspondence Sept 1897- Correspondents include: Alice Ruddock, a nurse in May 1910 India; Lilian Jenkins and Georgina Franklin and others at St Thomas's Hospital. Also included are congratulatory notes on the occasion of Nightingale's 80th birthday

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Letters to William Shore Smith, afterwards (1893) Nightingale, from hiscousin Florence Nightingale 1846-1893

One letter to William Shore Smith from his mother, Mary Smith 16 Jan 1856

Two letters from Florence Nightingale, the first to his wife Louisa Eleanor only and the second to them both 1891, 1893

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Two receipts from Florence Nightingale to Mrs Mary Robbins, one of her nurses at Scutari 1855, 1856

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Letters from Florence Nightingale to her relative 1876-1901 Rosalind MaryShore Smith, daughter of William Shore Smith (afterwards Nightingale), and wife (1892) of Vaughan Nash ( C B 1909). Included also are a letter from Florence Nightingale to Louisa Eleanor, wife of William Shore Smith and letters to Vaughan Nash

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney 1870-11 Oct 1881

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney 12Oct 1881- May 1886

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney June-Dec 1886

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney 1887-May1888

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney June 1888-1890

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney 1891-1894

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney 1895, 1896

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Correspondence of Florence Nightingale with Frederick and Maude Verney1897-1902, nd

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Letters to Florence Nightingale from Gwendolen, daughter of Frederick and Maude Verney c1890-1900

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Miscellaneous letters of and relating to Florence Nightingale and members of the Verney family 1871-1901, Photograph of Florence Nightingale by H Lenthall of Regent Street c1858

PressCutting from the Aberdeen Press and Journal relating to a letter ofFlorence Nightingale on exhibition in Aberdeen - 27 March 1929

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