Lot 84
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Two autograph letters signed, 24 and 25 March 1861, 30 Old Burlington Street, London, altogether 8 pages, 8vo, both letters probably to the editor of the St James's Magazine, expressing her deep annoyance at her 'confidential government reports' on hospitals being quoted; her insistence that the 'report was private, which information accompanied every copy that was sent out...even to the Princess Royal who asked for it'; with two transcripts of two letters of 1887. Provenance: S.C. Hall -- W.H. Goss. (4)
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Two autograph letters signed, 24 and 25 March 1861, 30 Old Burlington Street, London, altogether 8 pages, 8vo, both letters probably to the editor of the St James's Magazine, expressing her deep annoyance at her 'confidential government reports' on hospitals being quoted; her insistence that the 'report was private, which information accompanied every copy that was sent out...even to the Princess Royal who asked for it'; with two transcripts of two letters of 1887. Provenance: S.C. Hall -- W.H. Goss. (4)

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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Two autograph letters signed, 24 and 25 March 1861, 30 Old Burlington Street, London, altogether 8 pages, 8vo, both letters probably to the editor of the St James's Magazine, expressing her deep annoyance at her 'confidential government reports' on hospitals being quoted; her insistence that the 'report was private, which information accompanied every copy that was sent out...even to the Princess Royal who asked for it'; with two transcripts of two letters of 1887. Provenance: S.C. Hall -- W.H. Goss. (4)
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