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POVERTY — HOMELESSNESS — FLORENCEBiblio.com

Regolamento della Pia Casa di Lavoro di Firenze

18184414Florence: presso NiccolÃ² Carli 1818. 8vo 193 x 125 mm. 45 3 bl.; 37 1 bl. pp. Letterpress tables. The second part is an Appendix separately paginated with half-title and approbation at end dated 1818. A few small spots to title and last few pages. Modern half linen and marbled boards original rear wrapper bound in. Only Edition of the rules for the main Florentine workhouse for the destitute mainly children established by Napoleon in 1812 to honor the birth of his son the King of Rome on the site of two former monasteries in the Florentine suburb of Montedomini. The architect Giuseppe del Rosso combined the two monastic edifices creating one main building in a neoclassical style and a complex of six smaller buildings for workshops etc. The Pia Casa di Montedomini as it came to be known was not only a poorhouse but was a center for poor relief generally. The various categories of candidates for aid are set forth in the introduction: children or adults who were taken in by Montedomini or by other â€œpious establishmentsâ€ in the city as permanent residents known as Reclusi; those who were given work during the day and who returned to their families at the end of the day; those who were given work to carry out at home; and those few who were granted financial help. The Reclusi were divided by age: children under 3 went to the Spedale degli Innocenti those aged 3 to 10 and 10 to 15 to two different orphanages and those who were disabled or too old to work to another hospice Spedale di Bonifazio. Thus families were broken up: this is acknowledged in the text. Blank sample forms are provided for the admission of each category. Most of the rules are devoted to the main Reclusi aged 15 and up. The first chapter outlines admissions procedures; chapters 2 and 3 describe their general living conditions and daily routines and the following chapters address details of work food clothing and bedding all paid for through the inhabitantsâ€™ labor. Not surprisingly given the Napoleonic inspiration the Reclusi were organized in quasi-military â€œbrigadesâ€ divided by sex and type of work. The brigades were led by the most compliant and hard-working individuals male â€œCaporaliâ€ and female â€œMaestreâ€ who wore differently colored uniforms from the others. Every moment of the day was strictly regimented and other than eating and sleeping there was no time for anything other than work except for two hours of recreation on the occasional special feast day when only selected individuals were allowed to leave the Casa in strictly controlled groups. The daily life of these children and young adults who were imprisoned â€œfor their own goodâ€ is hard to fathom for a modern reader: they rose at 6 or 6:30 prayed worked until noon finally were allowed to eat and then went back to work until 11 or 11:30 pm. Most of the work seems to have involved sewing or needlework; some worked for tailors or other textile workers. Dinner was followed by prayers and bedtime silence was imposed at 1 am. Meals were spartan: the rations of each ingredient are prescribed down to the ounce. Lunch was 2 ounces of soup 10 ounces of bread and 6 ounces of meat or a comparable quantity of vegetables. Dinner was bread and vegetables. One suspects that many barely survived in these conditions. Other chapters and the Appendix are devoted to the administration of the Casa accounting and record-keeping work assignments and payment and relations with extra-institutional employers. I locate no copies in American libraries. R. UccelliÂ Contributo alla Bibliografia della ToscanaCÂ 1922 2575. presso Niccolò Carli unknown

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 803,80 €

NIGHTINGALE, FlorenceBiblio.com

Autograph letter signed to Reverend Sir James Davis.

1864177463London: 21 December 1864. Your great kindness on behalf of this good man's family Nightingale writes to Davis 1820-1883 a clergyman and headmaster to rally support for the family of the recently deceased Lutheran minister Theodor Fliedner 1800-1864 Nightingale's old friend and tutor whom she viewed as a father figure. Fliedner founded and ran 30 deaconess houses where women could train in theology and nursing and his family required financial aid to continue his work. Nightingale met Theodor Fliedner in 1841 and in 1850 became a temporary resident at his flagship deaconess community the Kaiserswerther Diakonie. The women who resided there had committed to a holy life and taken vows. However they were not enclosed as they were trained to go out into the community to care for the sick. Further they could leave at any point if they wished. It was an ideal place for Nightingale for whom nursing was a religious vocation and the time she spent there was "key in the development of her mission" Macdonald p. 7. In 1851 she wrote her first publication issued anonymously titled The Institute of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine in which she recommended Fliedner's deaconess houses to English women. She commented on "the delicacy the cheerfulness the grace of Christian kindness the moral atmosphere" in the hospitals and "the kindness of the sisters in imparting their own knowledge" Nightingale p. 19. The Fliedners and Nightingale remained close long after her stay. In 1853 she became godmother to their child and upon Fliedner's death Nightingale felt that she had lost a father. Determined to support his family in their "continuance of the work" Nightingale wrote and printed an appeal and engaged a network of clergymen to promote the cause. To this end she writes to Reverend Davis that "you were so kind. as to enter into a proposal for sending a provision for the family" and asks that he circulate her pamphlets "amongst the likeliest members" of his community. Bifolium and single sheet 177 x 113 mm. Autograph letter written across 3 pages letterhead of 27 Norfolk Street Park Lane mourning borders. Previously folded occasional small splits at ends of folds: in very good condition. McDonald Lynn ed. Florence Nightingale's Spirital Journey: Biblical Annotations Sermons and Journal Notes 2001; Nightingale Florence The institution of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine for the practical training of deaconesses under the direction of the Rev. Pastor Fliedner 1851. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni4 750,00 £GB≈ 5 423,55 €

NIGHTINGALE, FlorenceBiblio.com

Four autograph letters signed to Amelia de Laney.

1892184236London: 1892-1938. I do not for a moment doubt that you will master or mistress the situation A group of encouraging letters to a younger nurse and mentee. De Laney trained at Nightingale's school for nurses and afterwards held senior positions in hospitals around the country. Nightingale's letters came at critical points of her career offering considered advice support and sympathy. They are accompanied by documents from de Laney's second occupation as housekeeper for the House of Lords. Amelia de Laney 1848-1940 attended the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas's Hospital between 1883 and 1886. Nightingale sent the first letter in 1891 when de Laney was considering leaving the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary for a more senior role at the Royal Hospital for Consumption in Ventnor. Nightingale was cautiously supportive of the move. She wrote that de Laney "should have the promotion which you have well earned" but observed that the role came with a long list of duties: in addition to managing the care of patients and supervising her staff she would need to hire and train nurses look after the ten buildings and oversee the washing and cooking. Regardless Nightingale affirmed that "I do not for a moment doubt that you will master or mistress the situation if you are appointed". Nightingale provided Ventnor with an excellent reference for de Laney but the board rejected her for being insufficiently well-born. Instead de Laney moved in 1894 to a position as matron at the newly founded Epileptic Colony in Chalfont St Peter. Nightingale privately expressed her concerns to her friend Henry Bonham Carter commenting that the work was "entirely new. It is not hospital work at all. It seems to me an immense responsibility" McDonald pp. 230-31. Her concerns were proved valid. Nightingale's second letter dated April 1897 enquired after reports that de Laney had left her post. In her third letter dated May the same year Nightingale wrote to de Laney that "I grieve that you were obliged to resign & that you so much need rest" reassuring her that "you have done a good work & you will do much more good work for our cause". The fourth letter sent a month after extended Nightingale's ongoing sympathy for de Laney's "grief and distress". De Laney ultimately left nursing altogether. In 1902 she began working in the House of Lords holding the position until retirement in 1919. The correspondence here includes notices of appreciation sent on behalf of the Archduchess Maria Annunciata and Queen Alexandra. Other items include a letter from Nightingale seeking de Laney's address; an invitation card for an event at the Nightingale Training school; a document granting de Laney rooms in Westminster; a copy of Cecil Woodham-Smith's Florence Nightingale 1820-1910 1950; and a collection of clippings on Nightingale. Together 10 items: 5 autograph letters signed in black ink and pencil 1 across 2 single sheets with mourning borders 223 x 125 mm and four on bifolia 177 x 115 mm with 11 sides of writing; typed letter signed on single sheet notepaper; facsimile letter from the Home Office; invitation card; group of ephemera including newspaper cuttings and manuscript list; book octavo original blue cloth spine lettered in silver top edge blue. Modern bookplate of historian Arnold Daly Briscoe to front pastedown of volume extremities rubbed with occasional spots of wear; letters lightly creased from folding some lightly foxed one partially split along former folds. Overall a very well-preserved collection. Lynn McDonald ed. Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing. Collected Works of Florence Nightingale vol. 13 2009. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni8 750,00 £GB≈ 9 990,75 €

NIGHTINGALE, FlorenceBiblio.com

Notes on Hospitals.

1863161784London: Longman Green Longman Roberts and Green 1863. Inscribed to her only supporter in the British military establishment Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page "Major General Sir Henry Storks &c &c offered by one who has had the honour to serve under his command. F.N. 5/11/64 Inkermann Day". During the Crimean War Henry Knight Storks 1811-1874 commanded the British military establishments in Turkey from the Bosphorus to Smyrna and was promoted major-general. He superintended the final British withdrawal from Turkey at the end of the war. Nightingale inscribed this copy on the tenth anniversary of the Battle of Inkerman a major British victory. Storks was a key ally in Nightingale's efforts to reform nursing in the Crimea reforms she often felt were obstructed by the British military authorities. She wrote on 6 March 1856 "I have therefore fought my own battles. I can truly say unsupported by any official out here with the exception of Genl. Storks" in Goldie p. 225. In May 1856 Nightingale was so exhausted by illness and overwork that she thought she was dying and wrote to Storks with her last requests: "As you are of all those in office whether at home or abroad the officer who has given the most steady and constant support to the work entrusted to me by her Majesty's Government I venture to appeal to you to continue that support after my death and to carry out as far as possible my last requests" Goldie. p. 265. Nightingale recovered and in 1857 secured Storks's appointment to the Royal Commission on the sanitary condition of the army. For many years after they continued to correspond on the welfare of soldiers. Nightingale's Notes on Hospitals was first published in 1858 and the second edition in 1859. This third edition was completely revised and substantially expanded and as Nightingale wrote in her preface "it is in reality a new book". The work addresses sanitation and hospital architecture arguing for the "pavilion" plan in which wards were separated into wings to improve ventilation and sunlight and to reduce infection by isolating contagious patients. The book "won Nightingale praise and inaugurated her career as an advisor to medical professionals all around the world especially those involved with hospital and infirmary construction" Orlando Women's Writing in the British Isles. Quarto. With 11 plates 2 maps of London and Paris 3 tables all folding. Original purple cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorated in blind brown endpapers. Housed in custom red cloth solander box. Minor repairs to spine joints and inner hinges wear at extremities with loss at head of spine not affecting lettering contents clean plan of Paris with small chip to outer edge affecting border without loss to image. A good copy. Bishop & Goldie 101. Sue Goldie ed. Florence Nightingale: Letters from the Crimea 1997. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni17 500,00 £GB≈ 19 981,50 €

Nightingale, FlorenceBiblio.com

Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

1860140947035London: Harrison 1860. First Edition Early Issue. Near Fine. First Edition early issue. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed "From Florence Nightingale Mar 14 1860"; additional ownership signature in a different hand of "A. Russell Pollock Greenhill Paisley" inked beneath Nightingale's inscription. Bound in twentieth-century blue morocco with spine lettered in gilt with original brown limp cloth covers bound in at front and rear cup ring stain to upper cover. With "The Right of Translation is reserved." at foot of title page original yellow endpapers with printed advertisements dated 1860. Near Fine with light wear to binding fading to spine and lightly so to covers. Offsetting to modern cream endsheets from wide turn-ins former owner name in light pencil to front free endpaper. Inked date to original front pastedown contents tanned. Alexander Russell Pollock 1821-1884 was the son of James Pollock and Isabella Russell of Greenhill Paisley Scotland. Alexander was a partner in the firm James Pollock and Co. a merchant and yarn agent based in Causeyside. He married Margaret Amelia Pollock the daughter of Matthew Pollock in Stillorgan Dublin on 27 April 1859 and they had 19 children in the space of 16 years. Alexander died on 23 October 1884 in Dieppe Seine-Maritime France at the age of 63 and was buried in his hometown. An obituary was published in the Paisley Gazette on November 1 1884. Alexander amassed a large library and collection of coins medals manuscripts and other antiques which were sold in a series of auction sales in 1889.Signed copies of this landmark medical work are scarce. "Defining nursing as 'helping the patient to live' Nightingale 'introduced the modern standards of training and esprit de corps and early grasped the idea that diseases are not 'separate entities which must exist like cats and dogs' but altered conditions qualitative disturbances of normal physiological processes through which the patient is passing. While she did not know the bacterial theory of infectious diseases she realized that absolute cleanliness fresh air pure water light and efficient drainage are the surest means of preventing them" Garrison-Morton History of Medicine p. 773. Bishop & Goldie p. 16. Harrison unknown

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis25 000,00 $US≈ 21 152,50 €

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