Catharine Leslie Hobson, lady-nurse, Crimean war, and her life / by W.F. Hobson.

  • Hobson, W. F.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Catharine Leslie Hobson, lady-nurse, Crimean war, and her life / by W.F. Hobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    bear all, still I would not for all the world be out of itr [Editor's italics.] The previous extract, with others, was sent by the recipient in England to Lady Canning (he having seen her when some nurses were being started for the East), and he writes: Recollect that at this time Lord Canning was a Cabinet Minister, and that the Cabinet was then the object of the censure of Mr. Roebuck's Committee in the House of Commons and of... . Had I been influenced by a spirit hostile to the Government I should have sent these extracts from the terrible accounts of Miss Anderson, either to Roebuck's Committee or to The Times, but as I only desired that the truth should reach the proper quarter/#/- a remedy, I selected her Ladyship, who, from all I had seen and heard of her, I considered the most promising channel for procuring redress. S. S. Lady Canning replied with thanks for extracts from Miss Anderson's letters, and.... regret to learn that during her illness she was robbed of her clothing by those who ought to have taken charge of her. She also sent out an order for her outfit to be made up without loss of time, adding, I have always heard of the two Miss Andersons' exertions in the highest terms of praise.
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