Lot 229
Nightingale (Florence) Autograph Letter signed to "Nurse Wilson", 1878, on her and 3 other nurses deliverance from shipwreck on their way home from Canada, where they had been nursing at the Montreal General Hospital.
Hammer Price: £550
Description
Nightingale (Florence, reformer of army medical services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Autograph Letter signed to "Nurse Wilson", 3½pp., 8vo, Lea Hurst, Cromford, Derby, 13th August 1878, on her and 3 other nurses deliverance from shipwreck on their way home from Canada, where they had been nursing at the Montreal General Hospital, "I cannot say how much we feel what you have gone through so courageously... You do not say where Nurse Styring, Nurse Cross & Webb are. I suppose they have all gone to their own homes", laminated, folds, browned.
⁂ In 1878 four of Florence Nightingale's nurses returning to England were shipwrecked two days out of Montreal and marooned for a week on an island. They were rescued by an officer who swam two icy rivers to reach a lighthouse and raise the alarm. They were taken aboard the SS Erl King, captained by Edward Scott, and landed in Glasgow on August 9th 1878, some three weeks after originally setting out.
Description
Nightingale (Florence, reformer of army medical services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Autograph Letter signed to "Nurse Wilson", 3½pp., 8vo, Lea Hurst, Cromford, Derby, 13th August 1878, on her and 3 other nurses deliverance from shipwreck on their way home from Canada, where they had been nursing at the Montreal General Hospital, "I cannot say how much we feel what you have gone through so courageously... You do not say where Nurse Styring, Nurse Cross & Webb are. I suppose they have all gone to their own homes", laminated, folds, browned.
⁂ In 1878 four of Florence Nightingale's nurses returning to England were shipwrecked two days out of Montreal and marooned for a week on an island. They were rescued by an officer who swam two icy rivers to reach a lighthouse and raise the alarm. They were taken aboard the SS Erl King, captained by Edward Scott, and landed in Glasgow on August 9th 1878, some three weeks after originally setting out.
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