Miscellaneous papers

Comprises:

MS.9075/1: Copy of letter from Florence Nightingale to Sir William Bowman, 14th November 1854, taken by Parthenope Nightingale, 1854.

MS.9075/2: Printed "Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage"; persons quoted include Florence Nightingale, 1878.

MS.9075/3-8: Letters to Florence Nightingale, 1864-1870.

MS.9075/9: Description of Florence Nightingale at Scutari, 1870.

MS.9075/10: Reprint of "Santa Filomena", poem about Florence Nightingale by H.W. Longfellow, Mid-late 19th century.

MS.9075/11: Letter from Comte de Flavigny, president of the Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires, to General le Flö, French Minister of War, 1871.

MS.9075/12-23: Miscellaneous family letters, 1828-1874.

MS.9075/24-49: Letters to and from Sir Harry Verney and Madame Werckner, 1863-1885.

MS.9075/50-54: Letters to Sir Harry Verney from Miss Rumpff, 1870.

MS.9075/55: Letter to Emily Verney, in shorthand, 1871.

MS.9075/56-64: Notes by Sir Harry Verney, W.E. Nightingale and others, 1863-1868.

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Copyright in these letters rests chiefly with the holders of the original documents; in most cases this is the Verney family of Claydon House, Buckinghamshire.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.