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D2546 - Florence Nightingale of Lea Hurst, Derbyshire and Embley, Hampshire (1820-1910), nurse and social reformer - 1876-1890
- ZZ - Letters from Florence Nightingale, writing from Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, 10 South Street, Park Lane, London W, and Claydon House, Winslow, Bucks., to Christopher Blencowe Noble Dunn (1836-1892), surgeon, of Crich, Derbyshire, concerning the illnesses, diet, water supplies and medical treatment of her family, household staff and villagers in the Lea and Holloway district - 1876-1890

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D2546/ZZ/72
Title	Letter (on mourning stationery) from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn discussing several patients and the progress of their plans for the Whatstandwell coffee house
Date	1 Jan 1881
Description	It is unclear if D2546/ZZ/73 was written at the same time as the D2546/ZZ/72.
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	Florence Nightingale
Sender Location	10 South St, Park Lane [London]
Recipient	Dr Dunn
Recipient Location	Not given
Archive Creator	Christopher Blencowe Noble Dunn of Crich (1836-1892), medical doctor
Archive Creator	Florence Nightingale of Lea Hurst, Derbyshire and Embley, Hampshire (1820-1910), nurse and social reformer
Administrative History	- William Shore Smith: Florence Nightingale's cousin - John Bratby: former servant to the Nightingale family living in retirement in Holloway with his wife, Mary Bratby - William Yeomans of Holloway House: land agent to the Nightingale family and Poor Law Guardian - Mr Sims: not identified Sources: Civil registration indexes, 1871 and 1881 census
Access Category	Open
Format	Document
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
Copies	This letter has been digitised and can be viewed on The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project website at http://archives.bu.edu/web/florence-nightingale
Related Material	See also D2546/ZZ/73.
Transcript or Index	10 South St Park Lane W 1/1/81 My dear Sir Thank you for your kind note about the stone building for the proposed Whatstandwell Coffee-room & for the answers to your Advt, - all of which I have transmitted to Mr Shore Smith. I am very sorry indeed to hear your account of poor John Bratby. I have written to his wife, proposing Mrs Swann to help nurse him: at C.B.N. Dunn Eqs. [pencil] my expense of course. Would you kindly further this, if you think it desirable? ^Might I ask you what is the medicine instead of Colchicum which you give for gout? to Bratby?^ I hope to hear from you in a day or two : I am glad you saw Mr Yeomans. He glady accepts the office of Treasurer to the Whatstandwell Coffee-room and proposes that young Mr Sims should be added to the Committee Have you said anything to him about the sewage outlet in Holloway, & his field? I find the field of his he proposes for it is not the field we thought - but a field farther from Ashmore's than the present outlet : That all the highest blessings of the New Year & of many New Years may rest on you & yours & on all our poor Patients is the fervent wish of yours ever sincerely F. Nightingale Might I trouble you to give the enclosed to Mrs Swann?
Acknowledgements	Transcription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020

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