ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, June 17, 1884. Letter to Edmund Boulnois of the Marylebone Infirmary thanking him for his kind words about "the 'opening' of your Training Home…Your interest in the subject is my own and we owe you an infinite debt of gratitude for the great things you have done & are doing & will do in the cause of trained Parish Infirmary Nursing…I have delayed some days answering your kind invitation to take a part in the inauguration of what is always nearest my heart, & for which I have given my work, and compared to which one's life is nothing. I have delayed not out of indifference but out of anxiety—anxiety to be able to say that I would gladly do whatever you wish." Nightingale explains that although her health has been "worse than usual," she continues to work. She writes: "Might I ask when your 'opening' takes place? & what it is that you kindly wish me to be present at? Indeed it is so foreign to my powers & to my whole life to show interest & give help in anything of a public manner & by anything but private work that I would fain say: Forgive & excuse me. But I would await your kind answer." In fine condition, with a thin strip of mounting remnant along the side of the last page.
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