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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1820-1910)
A 4pp. a.l.s. by Florence Nightingale, dated 35 South Street, Park Lane, March 22nd 1869, to Dr. Herbert Evans, expressing concern for the health of her cook, Jane Lyons, who is another of the Doctor's patients. Owing to her own ill health she is unable to look after Jane Lyons properly, and asks Dr. Evans to take on the responsibility: "I have been unwilling to part with Jane Lyons, unless it appeared decidedly for her own benefit to do so ... but now, her health having again become worse, I see that she requires a degree of watchfulness & oversight in the management of herself which it is utterly impossible for me to give with my own increasing invalidism & overwhelming business ...."
A 4pp. a.l.s. by Florence Nightingale, dated 35 South Street, Park Lane, March 22nd 1869, to Dr. Herbert Evans, expressing concern for the health of her cook, Jane Lyons, who is another of the Doctor's patients. Owing to her own ill health she is unable to look after Jane Lyons properly, and asks Dr. Evans to take on the responsibility: "I have been unwilling to part with Jane Lyons, unless it appeared decidedly for her own benefit to do so ... but now, her health having again become worse, I see that she requires a degree of watchfulness & oversight in the management of herself which it is utterly impossible for me to give with my own increasing invalidism & overwhelming business ...."