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The Property of the late Lord Wraxall
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph letter signed to Lt Col Danbery, commanding 62nd Regiment, Scutari Barrack Hospital, 8 June 1856, 2½ pages, 4to; portrait photograph of Florence Nightingale, approximately 90 x 60mm, pasted to second leaf.
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph letter signed to Lt Col Danbery, commanding 62nd Regiment, Scutari Barrack Hospital, 8 June 1856, 2½ pages, 4to; portrait photograph of Florence Nightingale, approximately 90 x 60mm, pasted to second leaf.
Florence Nightingale intervenes to ask Danbery's 'kind interference' on behalf of Private James Ryan of his regiment, who is owed two months' pay, as well as the entitlement of a second Good Conduct Badge. Ryan had arrived in Scutari as an orderly on a hospital ship; 'His wife & three children are in great distress & have written to me. He has sent them home money but it has never reached them'; suggesting with some weight that Danbery will 'perhaps kindly direct' that the money be sent to Scutari, 'if his story be correct'. The verso of the envelope is annotated by the recipient with a note of action taken.
Florence Nightingale intervenes to ask Danbery's 'kind interference' on behalf of Private James Ryan of his regiment, who is owed two months' pay, as well as the entitlement of a second Good Conduct Badge. Ryan had arrived in Scutari as an orderly on a hospital ship; 'His wife & three children are in great distress & have written to me. He has sent them home money but it has never reached them'; suggesting with some weight that Danbery will 'perhaps kindly direct' that the money be sent to Scutari, 'if his story be correct'. The verso of the envelope is annotated by the recipient with a note of action taken.