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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Two autograph letters signed, the first to Colonel Gordon Drummond of the Coldstream Guards, General Hospital, Balaclava, 15 April 1856, 2½ pages, 4to; the second signed with initial ('Ever your F') to an unidentified correspondent ('My dear'), n.p., n.d., 2 pages, 8vo; (remnants of guards).
At Balaclava, Florence Nightingale writes 'upon a matter which is of some importance to our Hospital', describing the 'diligence, sobriety, trust-worthiness & cleverness' of her Orderly, Samuel Vickery, a Private in the Coldstream Guards who, having been 'frostbitten soon after Inkerman', has recovered sufficiently to render himself indispensable to her hospital at Scutari; and asking that in the even of the regiment being ordered home, a means might be found of allowing Vickery to remain 'till he can go home with the last of the Sick from Scutari'. The undated letter asks the recipient to send a carriage to carry some parcels; 'And if you come in it then I shall have the pleasure of seeing you'. (2)
At Balaclava, Florence Nightingale writes 'upon a matter which is of some importance to our Hospital', describing the 'diligence, sobriety, trust-worthiness & cleverness' of her Orderly, Samuel Vickery, a Private in the Coldstream Guards who, having been 'frostbitten soon after Inkerman', has recovered sufficiently to render himself indispensable to her hospital at Scutari; and asking that in the even of the regiment being ordered home, a means might be found of allowing Vickery to remain 'till he can go home with the last of the Sick from Scutari'. The undated letter asks the recipient to send a carriage to carry some parcels; 'And if you come in it then I shall have the pleasure of seeing you'. (2)
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