Letters to William Farr (1807-1883), statistician

The letters reflect the friendship of Nightingale and Farr, and their collaboration in providing statistical evidence for sanitary reform, especially in connection with the Army Sanitary Commission and the Indian Sanitary Commission.

1858-1875

128 items

Sotheby's 22 July 1969, lot 417.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Florence Nightingale Digitisation Project.