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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/29
TitleLetter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn requesting that he fill out a form for her and asking about possible courses of treatment for patients
Date25 Oct 1878
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderFlorence Nightingale
Sender LocationLea Hurst, Cromford, Derby
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- Elizabeth Shardlow, born about 1830, living at Commonside, Holloway
- Mrs Holmes: not identified: census entries include several indiviudals of this name
- Hannah Allen, born about 1808 and sister Ann Allen, born about 1824, living in Lea Road and later Haslam Lane, Holloway.
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 IndexMiss Shardlow 
Lea Hurst
Cromford : Derby
Oct 25/78
My dear Sir
Would you be so good as to fill in the "Disease" in the enclosed form, & return it to me ? 
The Patient is going on Monday early 
Mrs Holmes 
What will happen if she will not submit to an Operation to the leg? 
What will be the Operation?  What its magnitude? 
Are there any palliative measures which it is any use trying? for present care.  I think possibly she might be persuaded to submit to an Operation if I knew more. 
Is there any risk of her losing her leg? 


The sisters Allen:  
Could you be so good as to call upon them?  the eldest, Hannah, is suffering from rheumatism & is generally feeble.  She is an excellent old body but not very amenable to Medical influence. 
In haste
yrs sincerely
F. Nightingale
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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