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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
18902308170019London: Lyne & Sons for R.H. Porter 1890 1896. 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Orchidology: Great Flower Books Rare perhaps only 150 copies were printed. Complete in 9 parts bound in one volume. Folio 45 x 32 cm. Bound in contemporary green half morocco. Gilt spine. Crack at front cover joint. Includes 87 hand-colored lithographic plates a double-page map of Central and South America and 61 wood-engraved text illustrations. Nine original printed wrappers bound in at end. <br> "The person who makes the original drawings from nature should also lithograph the plates and indicate the colours to be used by the colourist for by this means the works passes through fewer hands and is more likely to turn out accurate. I have therefore pursued this method throughout the present work and have besides touched up the colouring of every plate sent out numbering nearly 9000" Introduction. Great Flower Books p 152; Nissen BBI 2185; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 18.284. London: Lyne & Sons for R.H. Porter, 1890, 1896. hardcover
1865187671London: Emily Faithfull Printer and publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty Victoria Press 1865. The work of destruction has at the same time begun First edition offprint issue of Nightingale's study of the treatment of indigenous Australians in British hospitals. Amid the European expansion and settler conflict of 19th-century Australia the Aboriginal population was declining rapidly. British hospitals continued to provide treatment to indigenous Australians whose survival in the colony was viewed as a matter of national concern. By 1865 Nightingale was working to implement her reforms on an institutional scale and had contributed several commissions examining public health in British colonies. Much of her data for the current paper was gathered by missionaries: a key recommendation was an official infrastructure for collecting mortality statistics. Nightingale concludes that poor sanitation and alcohol were among the primary causes for higher death rates but she also notes that European contact itself was damaging the Aboriginal population: "as soon as native habits and customs begin to undergo change under European influences the work of destruction has at the same time begun" p. 3. Nightingale's paper was originally published in Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science the same year: Bishop and Goldie list the journal issue first but no formal priority has been established. Octavo pp. 8. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper re-attached otherwise a very good copy indeed. Belt 15; Bishop & Goldie 95 ii. Lynn McDonald Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family 2010. unknown
1858655051858. London: Printed by Harrison and Sons St. Martin's Lane W.C. 1858 8° IV 2 V-X 28 133 1 23 1 pp. 1 plate cloth; Stamp of "Secretary of state War office Library" on title- and flying leaf; minor spotting on title else fine. FIRST EDITION AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE; FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY "FEMALE NURSING IN MILITARY HOSPITALS 1858" Subsidiary Notes is developed and expanded from the 'tentative and experimental Memorandum' on Female Nurses in Military Hospitals 1857 and really constitutes a treatise on nursing at large. Her much better known Notes on Nursing published two years later was an abridged version of the detailed study which had gone into this earlier privately printed book. Contents Digest pp.v-x Thoughts submitted by order concerning- I. Hospital nurses pp.1-9. II. Nurses in civil hospitals pp.9-14. III. Nurses in Her Majesty's hospitals pp.15-19. Systems of female nursing in the war hospitals of the different nations engaged in the Crimean War pp.19-26. Note in regard to the Russian nurses employed in the war hospitals of the Crimea pp.26-28. Subsidiary notes as to the introduction of female nursing into military hospitals in peace and war pp.1-63. Addenda with regard to female nursing in a military hospital on the pavilion or Lariboisière plan pp.63-90. Addenda as to mixed nursing by nurses and orderlies in military hospitals on the double pavilion or Vincennes plan pp.91-117. Additional hints as to ventilation hospital floors and cautions in ward-building suggested by the Lariboisière Hospital pp.118-127. Note on contagion and infection pp.128-132. Note on observations by the Principal Medical Officer of the army in the East pp.132 133. Thoughts submitted as to an eventual nurses' Provident Fund pp.1-19. Note as to the number of women employed as nurses in Great Britain 2021 pp. Note as to teaching nursing 22 23 pp. "This work developed and expanded from the 'tentative and experimental Memorandum' on Female Nurses in Military Hospitals No. 1 is complementary to Notes on Matters affecting the Health Efficiency and Hospital Administration No. 50 of which it forms the second volume. Its title hardly describes its scope for it is in fact almost a treatise on nursing at large. Mrs. Gaskell in a letter of December 21 1858 wrote: 'It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it at one long morning sitting-hardly stirring between breakfast and dinner.' The purpose of the work was to prepare the way for the introduction of women as nurses in military hospitals and to lay down the basic principles of nursing. The subject is considered in great detail from the historical organizational and administrative points of view. Together with much that is outdated it contains a great deal of wisdom and is regarded as one of the most important of Florence Nightingale's writings. It is in this work that she lays down the Draconian code for the regulation of the nurse's life which forms such an extraordinary feature of her teaching. On the other hand it has to be realized that in 1858 the idea of a respectable woman entering a hospital as a nurse was very shocking and Miss Nightingale had to anticipate strong public opposition. 'There is nothing more dangerous than to undervalue the objections of opponents' she wrote. 'Let us give them their full weight and while firmly holding our course and trusting God to guide it draw useful cautions from the objections which we quietly and steadily confront.' Furthermore she firmly asserted in the very first paragraph that it would be desirable 'to consider all plans and rules for some time to come as in a great measure tentative and experimental.' Miss Nightingale although in many respects rigid in her ideas was nevertheless very much aware of the dangers of stagnation which she clearly perceived in later years in the blind adherence to rules of others less able and less original than herself." Sue Goldie A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale compiled by the late W.-J. Bishop completed by Sue Goldie 1962 Nr. 3 hardcover
187749092London: Longmans Green and Co 1877. Sixth Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by Nightingale all in pencil on the half-title page. Modern binding of full brown calf stamped in blind. Binding - Fine. Textblock - VG tideline visible to top edge. xxxi 1 blank 517 3 pp. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Nightingale presents the book to "Nurse Webb" adding "delivered from ship wreck by our almighty Father's care & entering on a new post of usefulness at Lincoln Hospital". Followed by her full signature and dated "Nov. 1878" <br /> <br />We know of this incident for on August 16 1878 Florence Nightingale wrote to her local church pastor at Crich Reverend Acraman recounting the ordeal: <br /> <br />"Dear Sir Four of our trained Nurses have been wrecked on their way home from Canada where they had been nursing for us at the Montreal General Hospital & were returning for further Nursing employment under us. The steamer was wrecked upon a reef two days out from Canada on July 2. All night she was beaten about & in danger of going to pieces. At day break the Captain lowered the passengers into a life boat but she drifted out to sea & again they were with difficulty saved. For a whole week till the 28th they were on an island whence an officer made his way to the nearest light house swimming two rivers which the crew would not cross or battened down in the hold of a small fish schooner without food or air in a terrific storm. On July 28 they were rescued by the Erl King Capt. Ed. Scott whose kindness we can never forget bound for Glasgow where they landed safe on Aug 9. <br /> <br />Would you allow me to return thanks for them our four Nurses in your church next Sunday <br /> <br />Their names are: <br />Nurse Styring <br />Nurse Wilson <br />“ Cross <br />“ Webb" <br /> <br />Might I say in any terms you would be good enough to use: <br /> <br />Florence Nightingale desires to return the most humble & hearty thanks to Almighty God for four trained Nurses returning home on duty from Canada who were wrecked on July 21 were saved three times from a watery grave & after severe sufferings for a week from exposure & hardship were rescued on the 28th by a vessel bound for Glasgow & safely landed on August 9 thro’ a merciful Providence. <br /> <br />Pray believe me Sir <br />ever your faithful servt <br />Florence Nightingale" <br /> <br />Cf. "Parish life with a troubled Vicar: Crich 1875-1900". Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
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
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
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. <p>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.<p>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
