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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/38
TitleLetter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn expressing her shock and dismay at deaths from typhoid
Date30 May 1879
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderFlorence Nightingale
Sender Location10 South Street, Park Lane [London]
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- William Yeomans, land agent to the Nightingale family and Poor Law Guardian, living at Holloway House
- Mary Shardlow: not identified
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 IndexMay 30/79
My dear Sir
Thank you very much for your kind letter.  I have written to Mr Yeomans your orders about the sick.  These deaths from Typhoid are shocking beyond measure  Because Typhoid means bad drainage.  I trust that you will be successful in your War: & I hope that Mr Yeomans will help you. 
You say that poor Mary Shardlow "hopes to go to the Infirmary"  I enclose an order, which please fill up.  If there is any difficulty in paying for her going Yeomans will pay. 
Excuse haste.  Ever yrs ffully
F. Nightingale
C.B.N. Dunn Esq.
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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