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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Five autograph letters signed including one to Miss Craig, Hampstead, 29 October [18]64, expressing pleasure at seeing 'my little pamphlet (Indian) looking so pretty and so cheap' and ordering copies, and four to Mrs. Gordon, 10 South Street, 13 April 1896 - 27 August 1897, mainly discussing her correspondent's son's plans for the reform of the Government Hospital at Calcutta, sending sympathy on his death and giving news of the progress of the hospital later, 15½ pages, 8° (including 10 pages in pencil), one autograph envelope.
The pamphlet to which Miss Nightingale refers was her paper read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, on How People May Live and Not Die in India. Writing to Mrs. Gordon she is full of shrewd advice on dealing with bureaucracy - Dr. Gordon is to draw up a report but not send it to anyone without enquiry, 'It would run the risk of being 'considered' which means pigeonholed' - and reminiscences about a visit to Frank Buckland (a relative of Mrs. Gordon's) at Oxford where she took part in an experiment to mesmerise a bear cub. (5)
The pamphlet to which Miss Nightingale refers was her paper read at the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, on How People May Live and Not Die in India. Writing to Mrs. Gordon she is full of shrewd advice on dealing with bureaucracy - Dr. Gordon is to draw up a report but not send it to anyone without enquiry, 'It would run the risk of being 'considered' which means pigeonholed' - and reminiscences about a visit to Frank Buckland (a relative of Mrs. Gordon's) at Oxford where she took part in an experiment to mesmerise a bear cub. (5)