| Administrative History | - William Shore Smith (1831-1894) was Florence Nightingale's cousin
- Jane Alison/Allison born about 1840, a needle worker living in Holloway
- Mrs Stone is Hannah Stone (nee Allison), born about 1839, living at Gregory Tunnel. She married William Stone in 1849
- Thomas Allison, born about 1803, lived in Holloway and died in 1878
- Arthur Collie: not identified
Sources: Civil registration indexes, 1871 and 1881 census
Mickleover was the location of the County Lunatic Asylum, and Gregory Tunnel takes the Cromford canal under high ground near Lea Hurst, the Nightingale family residence |
| Transcript or Index | 28/8/78
My dear Sir
If, after seeing Mr Shore Smith's ancle [sic] you think he ought not to go to-morrow, would you kindly tell me as well as him?
2. Jane Alison is a second tIme in state of religious mania. She is with her Sister (Mrs Stone) on Gregory Tunnel. She is very "bad" at times.
Will you be so good as to see her?
When you come, she knows that you are watching her & she keeps quiet while you are there. But there is no doubt that she has religious despondency.
The first thing is: if you can certify that she is a fit person for an Asylum - where she has been once before. Out of respect to her father, Thomas Alison, I would gladly pay for her for few months wherever you thought she had a good chance of cure, whether at Mickleover or elsewhere.
3. I hope that you will think well of your Patient, Arthur Collie.
Yrs sincerely
F. Nightingale
C.B.N. Dunn Esq. |