ALS signed “F. Nightingale,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, September 1, 1856. Letter to nurse Mary Erskine, in part: "I hope that you have arrived at home & are enjoying your rest. I must some day to see you again. But now I am only writing on business & a business, I believe, equally disagreeable to us both. I am obliged to trouble you to send in to the War Office addressed to 'The Right Hon'ble, the Secretary of State for War, War Department, Horse Guards, London, the addresses & periods of service of the three Nurses whom you mentioned to me, as to be recommended for their share of the Sultan’s gifts, & the addresses (only) of the three ladies. If you would be kind enough to send them in thus / Ladies, Names, Mrs. Mackenzie, Miss Erskine, Miss Veysie." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Nightingale's own hand, Erskine's original letter, and a newspaper clipping related to the efforts of the above mentioned nurses—Mackenzie, Erskine, and Veysie—at Scutari during the Crimean War.
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