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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/12
TitleLetter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn venting about an ineffective "figurehead" at a local hospital and updates him on the status of some of the patients they have been caring for
Date16 Oct 1877
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- Emma Collins: not identified
- Peter Cotterill and wife: probably Peter and Grace Cotterill/Cottrell of Bonsall
- Mrs Swann: mentioned in several letters as a local nurse, but not otherwise identified
- Widow Fern: not identified
- Little Duke: not identified
Sources: 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
Transcript or IndexLea Hurst
Oct 16/77

My dear Sir
For any real good that can be done while that figure-head is there, you & I might have spared our pains, & I my anxiety. 
Poor Emma Collins is so ill again that, having no home, she has been sent off to the Hospital.
I expected it: but not so soon. 
This is the second: 
We have executed what you kindly ordered about Peter Cotterill's wife, poor thing - & are awaiting fresh orders. 
Mrs Swann dined here & went off to her Patient. 
Have you any orders with regard to Widow Fern & the poor little Duke? 
Yours sincerely
F. Nightingale

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