The history of nursing in the British Empire / by Sarah A. Tooley.
- Sarah Anne Tooley
- Date:
- 1906
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The history of nursing in the British Empire / by Sarah A. Tooley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![her nursing scheme, and doubtless tended to confirm her in the wisdom of the enterprise. The profound respect which Mrs. Fry's character and work inspired in high places, brought helpful patronage to her venture. Amongst the archives of the institution is a letter to the Bishop of London, which we reproduce in facsimile. Upton, 5th Month, 1841. Eliz^^ Fry presents her respects to the Bishop of London [D Blomfield] and if convenient to the Bishop to receive her she proposes calling upon him in S*^ James's Sq''^ about twelve o'clock this morning as the Queen Dowager wished the Bishop of London would inform Eliz^^ Fry his views respecting the new institution for the Protestant Sisters of Charity. Eliz^^ Fry would have written before had not the illness of her daughter made it so very uncertain whether she could attend to any en- gagement for a future day. To the Bishop of London.*' The interview was given, and Mrs. Fry records in her diary : June 28th, 1841. My sister Gurney [Mrs. Samuel Gurney] and my dear friend Charlotte Upcher, went with me to the Bishop of London on Sixth Day, on the subject of the Sisters of Charity. It has been a great pleasure to me, the Queen Dowager giving her name as patroness. The letter in which Earl Howe communicated the willingness of Queen Adelaide to give her patronage to the new society, runs as follows :— Bushey House, July 8, 1841. My Dear Mrs. Fry, Queen Adelaide commands me to state with what sincere pleasure she will place her name in your Society of Sisters of Charity. Her Majesty adds that](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21686695_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
