M0013735: Letter from Florence Nightingale to Lt. Col. Lefroy, 15 December 1855

Date:
October 1954
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/123/25
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M0013735: Letter from Florence Nightingale to Lt. Col. Lefroy, 15 December 1855. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Letter from F. Nightingale to Lt. Col. Lefroy

Description

First and last pages of a letter from Florence Nightingale to Sir John Henry Lefroy, written at Barrack Hospital, Scutari, on 15 December 1855 referring to the sending home of some of the nurses from the Balaclava Hospital. The letter was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1919. Related images: M0013736

Publication/Creation

October 1954

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: MS.5479

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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