Autograph letter signed from F.N., London, to my dear sir [manuscript], 1861 December 12.

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Autograph letter signed from F.N., London, to my dear sir [manuscript], 1861 December 12.

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Nightingale writes on mourning stationery (with black margins) about the design of hospitals and layout of nursing quarters, and attacks one aspect of the War Office's policy on hospitals. "I can scarcely terminate this correspondence without renewing my protest with which it began, viz. (that) against the immoral tendency of these lock wards. I have always stedfastly [sic] refused to help the War Office in this matter. And I am happy to say that the best Army Medl. Officers are now of my opinion. But no one (but) knows so well as I the fatal effect it has upon morality to see Government doing so little for honest wives & children of its soldiers & sailors and so much to enable these wretched women to resume their vile trade (after) by curing them of the disease which Providence has assigned as its punishment."

[8] p. (2 sheets) ; 18 x 23 cm fold. to 18 x 12 cm.

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