FOOTNOTES

[1] I wrote to the author of the charming sketch of Florence Nightingale in which I found it quoted, but he has quite forgotten who was the writer.

[2] Her full name was Frances Parthenope Nightingale.

[3] Mrs. Tooley, p. 37.

[4] For a charming sketch of Fliedner’s first wife, a woman of rare excellence, my readers are referred to “A History of Nursing,” by M. Adelaide Nutting, R.N., and Lavinia P. Dock, R.N. (G. P. Putnam and Sons.)

[5] The reference here is not to Miss Nightingale’s book, but to the periodical which at present bears that name.

[6] “Memoir of Sidney Herbert,” by Lord Stanmore. (John Murray.)

[7] “Felicia Skene of Oxford,” by E. C. Rickards.

[8] Kinglake’s “Invasion of the Crimea,” vol. vi. (William Blackwood and Sons.)

[9] Kinglake’s “Invasion of the Crimea,” vol. vi. p. 426.

[10] Kinglake’s “Invasion of the Crimea,” vol. vi.

[11] “The Life of Florence Nightingale,” by Sarah Tooley.

[12] Stafford O’Brien.

[13] Kinglake’s “Invasion of Crimea.”

[14] “Memories of the Crimea,” by Sister Mary Aloysius. (Burns and Oates.)

[15] “Soyer’s Culinary Campaign,” Alexis Soyer. (Routledge, 1857.)

[16] I know not whether this was the man whose arm she had saved; probably many others echoed his feeling, and he was not by any means the only soldier who thus reverently greeted her passing presence.

[17] “Introduction to Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones.” Reprinted from Good Words for June 1868. Florence Nightingale.

[18] The italics are added.

[19] A complete list is subjoined in the Appendix.

[20] Sir Harry Verney died four years later, and Claydon then passed to Sir Edmund Hope Verney, the son of his first marriage.

[21] “Life of Florence Nightingale,” by Sarah Tooley, p. 295.

[22] See “Life of Florence Nightingale,” by Sarah Tooley, p. 268.

[23] “Florence Nightingale,” a Cameo Life-Sketch by Marion Holmes.

[24] “Life of Sir Bartle Frere,” by John Martineau. (John Murray.)

[25] “Life of Sir Bartle Frere,” by John Martineau. (John Murray.)

[26] “The Lady of the Lamp,” by F. S., reprinted from the Evening News of August 16, 1910, in Nursing Notes of September 1, 1910.