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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/27
TitleLetter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn asking him to look in on a patient and expressing her excitement at his impending visit
Date13 Oct 1878
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderFlorence Nightingale
Sender LocationLea Hurst
RecipientDr Dunn
Recipient LocationNot given
Archive CreatorChristopher Blencowe Noble Dunn of Crich (1836-1892), medical doctor
Florence Nightingale of Lea Hurst, Derbyshire and Embley, Hampshire (1820-1910), nurse and social reformer
Administrative History- Mary, wife of John Bratby, fomer servant to the Nightingale family, living in retirement in Holloway
- Boy Bunting: not identified.
Access CategoryOpen
FormatDocument
CopiesA digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
This letter has been digitised and can be viewed on The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project website at http://archives.bu.edu/web/florence-nightingale
Transcript or IndexLea Hurst
Oct 13/78
My dear Sir
Your old Patient, Mrs Bratby, is looking very ill: she & her husband are thinking of going to Ramsgate for 2 or 3 weeks , if you approve: & if you recommend warm sea water baths for her 
Could you kindly see her within the next day or two?  and would you, among other things, tell me whether she ought to have stimulants? and if so what? 
2. Do you sometimes see the boy Bunting who recovered so wonderfully under your care from that accident?
I have an idea sometimes that he  is allowed to work too much: & that he wants looking to medically: If you could make a friendly call & charge it to my Acct. I should be very grateful. 
Thanking you for your kind note & hoping to see you on Tuesday about 4.30, as you were so good as to propose,
believe me yrs sincerely
F. Nightingale

C.B.N. Dunn Esq.
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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