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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/86
TitlePart of a letter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn concerning several patients
Date[1880s]
DescriptionWritten on South Street paper; page 2 only
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderFlorence Nightingale
Sender LocationNot given
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 Elizabeth Limb (daughter of Charles and Eliza Limb) married William Sims at Crich in 1873
- Rosamund Limb (daughter of Charles and Eliza Limb) married Charles Cope at Crich in 1884. Their their daughter Edith Elizabeth Cope was born in February 1886 and registered in the Shardlow registration district
- Mrs Sims: unidentified
- Parthenope Verney: Florence Nightingale's sister
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
Transcript or Index2
4. Do you know a Mrs Sims, of Crich - married daughter of that good woman, your old Patient, Mrs Limb, who died at Holloway? If she comes your way, would you be so very kind as to ask her to write to me about her youngest sister, Rosie Limb now married, I am afraid, not very well in Derby - whose confinement ^she^ Mrs Sims has been attending & to tell me how Rose Limb is, and all ^about her,^ & give me her married name and address?
Would it be troubling you too much to ask you what sort of woman Mrs Sims is? My recollection of her is that she nursed her mother, Mrs Limb, once - not very well - & was rather "ramshackle" & dirty [crossed through] slovenly. But I am not sure.

I was very sorry not to see you when you were so good as to call here -in August I was just gone to my sister who is now a confirmed Invalid from Rheumatic Arthritis at Claydon. But I returned a month ago.

C.B.N. Dunn Esq.
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