Description: Correspondence (largely later typescript copies) between Florence Nightingale and Sir John McNeill, accompanied by handwritten reports, and Nightingale's correspondence with Lady McNeill. The correspondence covers the reform of army healthcare and sanitation, public health, emigration, the training of nurses, and Nightingale's lobbying of government ministers. Also features correspondence relating to the death of Sidney Herbert.
Note
AMDigital Reference: Add MS 45768.
Original Version
Reproduction of: Florence Nightingale: correspondence with Sir John McNeill, GCB 21 May 1855 - 14 Sep 1881.
Location of Originals
British Library
Copyright Note
British Library; Correspondence of Herbert, Sidney (Lord Herbert of Lea) and Herbert, Mary Elizabeth (Baroness Herbert of Lea) reproduced with kind permission of William Herbert, 18th Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery