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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D2546/ZZ/64
TitleLetter (on mourning stationery) from Florence Nightingale to Dr Dunn requesting medication for a patient suffering from "bowel" problems and discussing more personal business
Date23 Nov 1880
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- Cecilia Linford, born about 1858, living in York (1871 census). Other Florence Nightingale letters suggest that later in the 1870s she was a maid to Florence Nightingale. She was married in January 1881 in Camberwell to Richard Rutland Millard. The 1881 census lists her in Camberwell under the mis-spelled name Clalia or Cealia Mallard. 
- Elizabeth Holmes, born about 1858, living at Commonside, Holloway
- William and Louisa Shore Smith, Florence Nightingale's cousins.
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 IndexLea Hurst
Nov 23/80
My dear Sir
Cecilia Linford has had the folly to tell neither you nor me that she has had no pills since Thursday - Her bowel never acts every day without them.  And today she is suffering much from headache.  The monthly period is not come on.  And she looks as heavy as lead.
Could you kindly if you are heading this way tomorrow, send her her pills
& me my medicines?   
Ever faithfully yours 
F. Nightingale

[in pencil] Lizzie Holmes was not so well yesterday. 

Mr & Mrs Shore Smith desire me to say: would you kindly come here to luncheon tomorrow ^(Wednesday)^ at one to talk over with them the proposed Coffee room at Whatstandwell? 
Or could you be so good as to come any time after 11.30, if not to luncheon? (tomorrow, Wednesday)  I am in great hopes that it may be settled now with your kind help.
F.N.
AcknowledgementsTranscription completed by catalogue volunteer RJ, 2020
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