Record

Browse this collectionThis entry describes an individual archive record or file. Click here to browse the full catalogue for this collection
Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/51
TitleLetter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn regarding personal business and the "Women's Club"
Date9 Nov 1879
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 History- Fanny Dowding: Florence Nightingale's maid
- Thomas Frances,  born about 1816, gardener at Lea Hurst, and his wife Elizabeth, born about 1817
- Harriet Limb, born about 1862, daughter of Eliza Limb, living at Up Hollow, Holloway
- Joseph Smith's wife: not identified.
Sources: Civil registration indexes, 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 IndexLea Hurst
9/11/79
My dear Sir
I am so very sorry that all the birds are flown.  My Fanny is at Church with a note from ^me to^ you :
Mrs Francis with her, with Francis' empty bottle.  Francis is, I take it, at chapel.  He is somewhat better.  But I should like you to have seen both Francis & Fanny. 
You will find my note when you go home 
To it I would add:
Harriet Limb has promised me to "put into" the "Women's Club"  I presume she must be "passed" by you.  Could you kindly, when you call upon her mother, keep Harriet up to the mark, & do about "passing" her whatever you judge right? 
Could you kindly tell me what you think about the old lady, Joseph Smith's wife? 

These last days rather knock me up :
yrs sincerely
F. Nightingale
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
Add to My Items