The Life of Florence Nightingale Volume II Part 33

(79) _Address_ ... [as in No. 78]. _April 28, 1876. Printed for Private Use only._ Quarto, pp. 12.

(80) _Metropolitan and National a.s.sociation for Providing Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor. On Trained Nursing for the Sick Poor. By Florence Nightingale._ A letter addressed to the _Times_ of Good Friday, April 14, 1876. Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., 1876. A small pamphlet (without wrappers), pp. 12.

Other copies have the imprint, "Printed by Cull & Son, Houghton Street, Strand." There were articles on Miss Nightingale's letter in the _Sat.u.r.day Review_, April 22, and _Punch_, April 29. The pamphlet was reprinted in 1881.

(81) The "Bulgarian Atrocities." A letter, dated September 15, in the _Daily News_, September 18.

An eloquent appeal for the Bulgarian Relief Fund, addressed to Sir John Bennett.

1877

(82) "The Famine in Madras." A letter to the _Ill.u.s.trated London News_, June 29, 1877.

The letter, dealing with irrigation as a preventive of famine, was reprinted as an appendix (pp. 25-30) to a pamphlet ent.i.tled _The Madras Famine_, by Sir A. Cotton. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.

(83) _In Memoriam._ In remembrance of John Gerry. A small pamphlet, pp.

14, in mauve paper wrappers. Written and privately printed by F. N.

John Gerry was a young footman who died of smallpox at Lea Hurst on July 17, 1877. Miss Nightingale was in the house at the time and had two trained nurses in attendance on him.

(84) "The Indian Famine." A letter to the Lord Mayor, enclosing a cheque for the Mansion House Relief Fund, printed in the _Daily Telegraph_, August 20.

"The letter would be worth its weight in gold to the Fund," said the Lord Mayor in acknowledging it. It was an earnest appeal for aid to the ryot, than whom "there is not a more industrious being on the face of the earth."

(85) _Work in Brighton; or, Woman's Mission to Women._ By the Author of _Active Service, Work among the Lost_, etc. [Ellice Hopkins]. With a Preface by Florence Nightingale. Ninth Thousand. London: Hatchards, 1877.

The Preface, dated "October 1877," occupies pp. iii., iv., and is an earnest appeal for Rescue Work.

(86) _Lettre sur le devoir des Femmes de prendre une part active a l'[oe]uvre du relevement de la moralite publique, et considerations sur les resultats sanitaires de la reglementation dans l'Inde Anglaise._

Read at a Congress in Geneva in the autumn of 1877. I have not been able to trace where it was printed.

(87) _A Letter to the Nurses of the Edinburgh Infirmary_, dated "New Year's Eve, 7 A.M." Quarto, pp. 3.

1878

(88) _Letter to the Matron, Home Sister, and Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital._ Quarto, pp. 14.

Lithographed. Dated "New Year's Day, 7 A.M., 1878." This took the place of the usual address.

(89) "Who is the Savage?" An article in _Social Notes_ (edited by S. C. Hall), May 11, 1878, vol. i. No. 10, pp. 145-147.

A description of life in the slums of a great city--suggesting an extension of Miss Octavia Hill's work, coffee-houses, co-operative stores, and rescue work. The MS. of this paper was offered for sale by an Edinburgh bookseller in 1913.

(90) "The United Empire and the Indian Peasant." An article in the _Journal of the National Indian a.s.sociation_, June 1878, pp. 232-245.

(91) St. Thomas's Hospital. _Memorandum for Probationers as to Finger Poisoning_, etc. A fly-sheet, pp. 4. Dated "July 1878."

Drawn up by F. N. in consultation doubtless with the medical officers.

(92) "A Water Arrival in India. By a Commissioner." An article, signed "F. N.," in _Good Words_, July 1878, pp. 493-496.

Describing, in the language as of a Royal Progress, the opening of the Kana Nuddee (Blind River) in the Hooghly District.

(93) _Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage._ A leaflet (8vo, pp. 4, printed by A. Ireland & Co., Manchester); Florence Nightingale's opinion (dated July 1878) occupies p. 1:--

You ask me to give my reasons for wis.h.i.+ng for the suffrage for women householders and women ratepayers. I have no reasons. The Indian ryot should be represented so that the people may virtually rate themselves according to the surveys of what is wanted, and spend the money locally under certain orders of an elected board. If this is the case: that we wish to give to the Indian native, peasant and Zemindar alike, such local representation _as we can_ in spending the taxes he pays, is the educated English taxpayer, of _whichever_ s.e.x, to be excluded from a share in electing the Imperial representatives? It seems a first principle, an axiom: that _every_ householder or taxpayer should have a voice in electing those who spend the money we pay, including, as this does, interests the most vital to a human being--for instance, education. At the same time I do not expect much from it, for I do not see that, for instance in America, where suffrage is, I suppose, the most extended, there is more (but rather less) of what may truly be called freedom or progress than anywhere else. But there can be no freedom or progress without representation. And we must give women the true education to deserve being represented. _Men_ as well as women are not so well endowed with that preparation at present. And if the persons represented are not worth much, of course the representatives will not be worth much.

(94) "The People of India." An article in the _Nineteenth Century_, August 1878, pp. 193-221.

For this article, see above, p. 290.

1879

(95) _Letter from Florence Nightingale to the Probationer-Nurses in the "Nightingale Fund" School at St. Thomas's Hospital. Easter, 1879. For Private Use only._ Quarto, pp. 4.

This letter, dated "Easter Eve, 1879, 6 _A.M._," was also lithographed in smaller form.

(96) St. Thomas's Hospital: _Memorandum of Instructions by Matron to Ward Sisters on Duties to Probationers_. Dated "Easter, 1879." A pamphlet of 4 pp.

Signed "S. E. W." (Mrs. Wardroper, the Matron), but written by F. N.

(97) "A Missionary Health Officer in India." Three articles in _Good Words_, July, August, September 1879, pp. 492-496, 565-571, 635-640.

The first and part of the second article describe Indian Famine relief. The rest of the second discusses, in connection with agrarian riots in the Deccan, the evils caused by the money-lenders (for an extract from this article, see Vol. I. p. 87 _n._). The third describes the work of a Sanitary Commissioner in normal times with special reference to Bombay. Both the second and the third articles close with panegyrics of Lord Lawrence.

(98) Letter on _Co-operation in India_. Printed at pp. 219-221 of the _Journal of the National Indian a.s.sociation_, May 1879.

(99) "Irrigation and Water Transit in India." Three articles in the _Ill.u.s.trated London News_, May 10, 24, 31.

(100) _Can we educate Education in India to educate "Men"?_ Three articles in the _Journal of the National Indian a.s.sociation_, August, September, October 1879, pp. 417-430, 478-491, 527-558.

1880

(101) _In Memoriam._ A card (pp. 4), "from F. P. V. and F. N." in memory of Frances and William Edward Nightingale (F. N.'s mother and father).

The card was composed by F. N., whose choice of texts, etc., was characteristic--_e.g._ "Live for Him: then come life, come death, we are His." "G.o.d help us to use ourselves more entirely for Him in our work."

(102) "Woman Slavery in Natal." A letter from Miss Nightingale (dated Nov. 22, 1879) to Mr. James Heywood, printed in the _Aborigines'

Friend_, April 1880.

(103) "Hospitals and Patients." An article put into type for the _Nineteenth Century_ of September 1880, but not used.

1881