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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/6
TitleLetter from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn requesting that he check on a patient named Widow Limb who has rheumatism
Date12 Sep 1877
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderFlorence Nightingale
Sender LocationLea Hurst, Cromford
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- Eliza Limb, born about 1830, living at Up Hollow, Holloway
Sources: 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 IndexLea Hurst
Cromford
Sept. 12/77
My dear Sir
Would you be so good as to see Widow Limb, I believe a former Patient of yours for Rheumatism? 
If you recommend Buxton for her, I would glady send her, if there be room for her.  (Her husband worked many years for my Father.) 
When may we see you again here? 
ever yrs ffully F. Nightingale
C.B.N Dunn Esq.
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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