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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/67
TitleLetter (on mourning stationery) from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn about plans for the "Whatstandwell" coffee room and thanking him for his earlier visit
Date2 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 HistoryThe coffee room was partly intended to combat hard drinking in the area and is still in existence today
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
Dec 2/80
My dear Sir
I have so much to apologise to you for in bringing you out such a wet afternoon - not in vain, because the proposed Coffee room was advanced by it - but in vain for your Patient, as I heard with dismay this morning. 
It cannot be accounted for, except perhaps indeed  thro'"nervousness", as he says himself. 
The message which I conveyed to you by letter, was conveyed to me by his wife herself. 
Will you excuse it? 

I hope to see you soon:  & also to hear more about the Whatstandwell project from you.  Perhaps you will kindly appoint a time
& believe me. 
Yours very excuse-fully
F. Nightingale
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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