Florence Nightingale Letter

Collection — Box: VMF General Oversize, Folder: 10

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf222

Staff Only

Autograph letter signed from Nightingale to Mr. W. Clark, a civil engineer, concerning the installation of sanitary works in India. Nightingale also refers to Mr. Edwin Chadwick, a noted sanitarian. 3 pages

Includes a framed original and a framed copy of the letter

Dates

Creation: 1872 September 29

Creator

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 (Person)

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Extent

2.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honor, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Inspired by what she took as a call from God in February 1837 while at Embley Park, Florence announced her decision to enter nursing in 1844. Nightingale worked hard to educate herself in the art and science of nursing, in spite of opposition from her family and the restrictive social code for affluent young English women.