On page 77, Florence Nightingale ran the first group of organized female nurses to support the British Army in the Crimean War.
On page 79, Mark Tapley was a beloved character created by Charles Dickens in his novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
On page 82, Aunt Chloe was a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
On Page 82-83, New Year's Day in 1863 was celebrated by abolitionists because Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect on that day.
On Page 83, cosy is a variant of cozy, and we preserved this as it appeared in the original Sketches. The author did use cozy on page 47 and page 100.
On page 89, transcribe Ward-master with the hyphen. The book typically used 'ward master.'
On page 93, three characters from the novels of Charles Dickens are mentioned: a) Mrs. Cluppins from The Pickwick Papers, b) Chadband, a pompous preacher from Bleak House, and c) Sam Weller from The Pickwick Papers.
On page 95, change "good by" to "good bye."
On page 96, changed "waved hier hands" to "waved their hands."
Four times in Chapter 6, the author omitted the hyphen in Hurly-burly House after using the hyphen with references to Hurly-burly House and Hurly-burly Hotel in previous Chapters. Those four times occurred on Page 90, Page 99 (twice) and Page 101. We added the hyphen to the four items in Chapter 6.