May 11 Rare Autograph & Book Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/11/2023
ALS, one page, 5 x 8, 10 South Street letterhead, May 24, 1888. Handwritten letter to Mrs. Robertson, in part: " The panties where lovely-If I have the obligation of them to Mr. Sillwood. Please thank him for me. The Primroses & Cowslips by next hamper before they are quite over. I should be very much obliged. Please be so good as to send me 6 more pots of the Peptonized Cocoa & Milk charging them to me, of course. It is always liked: but I do not find that more is asked for. May I you their trouble.
Ever sincerely Yours
FNightingale
Mrs. Nightingale did believe in the use of Cocoa to help fight infections and help the sick. She also enjoyed gardening and believed “flowers helped with the morale and recovery of a patient”.
Florence Nightingale ( 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a favorable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.
Florence Nightingale ALS Re; Grwong Flowers & Ordering Peptonized Cocoa
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