[336] Life and Labour of the People in London. Final volume, 1903, p. 154.
[337] The 50th anniversary of the event, not noticed, I think, in England, was celebrated in America: see Vol. II. p. [421].
[338] The Council consisted of Mr. Herbert, Mr. Bracebridge, Lord Ellesmere, Sir Joshua Jebb, Sir James Clark, Dr. Bowman, the Dean of Hereford, Sir John McNeill, and Dr. Bence Jones.
[340] “Your letter strikes me,” wrote Mr. Herbert (March 22), “as a little too curt for the occasion.” He suggested another form of words to her which she adopted.
[341] This was Mrs. Roberts: see above, pp. [185], [301].
[342] British Medical Journal, Dec. 31, 1892. Mrs. Wardroper retired in 1887, and died in 1892.
[343] British Medical Journal, Dec. 31, 1892.
[344] St. James's Magazine, April 1861. The writer was Mrs. S. C. Hall.
[345] Report of the Committee of the Council of the Nightingale Fund for the year ending June 24, 1861.