NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph note signed ('Florence Nightingale'), Scutari, 25 July 1856, 'M[ajor] General Storks is solicited to grant a passage home some day next week to Mr Wills, Storekeeper', one page, oblong 8vo, note on verso by recipient that Wills is entitled to a 2nd class passage.
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph note signed ('Florence Nightingale'), Scutari, 25 July 1856, 'M[ajor] General Storks is solicited to grant a passage home some day next week to Mr Wills, Storekeeper', one page, oblong 8vo, note on verso by recipient that Wills is entitled to a 2nd class passage.

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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph note signed ('Florence Nightingale'), Scutari, 25 July 1856, 'M[ajor] General Storks is solicited to grant a passage home some day next week to Mr Wills, Storekeeper', one page, oblong 8vo, note on verso by recipient that Wills is entitled to a 2nd class passage.

The Crimean War was by now over; Florence Nightingale left Constantinople for Marseilles 3 days after the date of this letter.
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