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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/71
TitleLetter (on mourning stationery) from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn about various patients and their current needs
Date18 Dec 1880
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 Thompson, born about 1841, living at Commonside, Holloway (1881 census). Her second son probably Thomas Thompson, born about 1869 and second daughter Emma born about 1866. - - Louisa Peach, born about 1866, living in Holloway
- Anthony Boden, born about 1804 and daughter Sarah, born about 1864, living at Commonside, Holloway
- Martha Sheldon, born about 1822, and brother William Sheldon, born about 1813, living in Holloway (1881 census)
- Robert Wildgoose, manager of Smedley's Mill
- Lydia Prince, born about 1810, living at Commonside
John Bratby, former servant to the Nightingale family, living in retirement in Holloway
- Mrs Holmes: not identified
- Jane Allison, born about 1840, living in Holloway. Her nephew, John Allison, had a hydrotherapy establisment in Ardwick, Manchester
- Rev. William Acraman, vicar of Crich 1875-1890
Sources: Civil registration indexes, 1871 and 1881 census
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
Publication NoteThis item (or a part of it) was published in Reflections Magazine in August 2020 to accompany an article written about John Allison and the hsopital at Manchester City Football Club.
TermAssociation football
Transcript or IndexLea Hurst
Dec 18 1880
My dear Sir
I commend to your kind care Mrs Thompson, if she sends for you: & her 2nd son, if she sends to you on account of his eyes.  He has been under Mr Taylor at Nottingham. 
Her 2nd daughter will enter the Women's Club if you can pass her: ^she is just 14;^
as well as
Louise Peach & Anthony Boden's daughter if you can pass them. 
C.B.N. Dunn Esq.
Martha Sheldon asks me to ask you to tell me what you reported of her brother to Mr Wildgoose. 
If he comes to you for more medicine without a note from Mr W., would you kindly charge it to me? 

How do you find old Lyddy Prince? 
I commend all our pensioners to your kind care. 

Will you be kind enough to let me have your Acct at the end of the Quarter, including of course John Bratby & Mrs Holmes.  

Lizzie Holmes has been suffering severely from her cough.  Could any thing more be done for her? 

Wonderful to state, I have, I believe, persuaded Jane Allison to go to Manchester if her nephew, to whom I have written, will have her.  She gives up her house. 

Pray let me thank you again for all your considerate & skilful care: I wish you Goodbye & God speed with all my heart :
& in great haste believe me ever sincerely yrs 
F. Nightingale

Might I trouble you to give the enclosed £2. 2 to Mr Acraman with my best wishes, for his Curates' Fund?
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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