ALS in pencil, signed “F. Nightingale,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, March 18, 1897. Letter to "My dear Nurse Ruddock," in full: "This begins & ends with my prayers that our loving Father will give you to 'run the place that is set before you' 'with patience.' I send: 1. Osler's book on Medicine which you asked for. I am sorry it is so large a book—There is a short article on the Bubonic Plague in it. And there is one on Syphilis &c. I meant to have told you yesterday (but we were talking of other things) how terrible is the increase of the disease of vice among our men in India. It is not unnoticed. There has been a Commission upon it, of which you may have heard. I am sorry to say that we are not without this increase in London Hospitals. In my younger days poor fellows with this disease were segregated. But I am now told by Medical Officers of large experience that they have sometimes scarcely a Patient in the Men's Wards without a taint of it. I think Nurses should know more about it than they do. But they are never taught upon this gruesome subject. 2. comes Ll. Roberts' book—2 vols. 3. the pathetic 'Old Missionary. 4. a book I cannot help sending you The Hallowing of Work. I think you will like it. Between the books you will find a little paper knife. And now God bless you again. And He will bless you." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original transmittal envelope. A significant medical letter by the founder of modern nursing.
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