[346] On April 11, 1861, Sir James Paget wrote to Miss Nightingale begging her to send him a scheme as “Bartholomew's is beginning to consider the training of nurses.”
[347] History of Nursing, vol. ii. p. 184.
[350] Mill's two letters on Suggestions for Thought are those printed, as “To a Correspondent,” at vol. i. pp. 238–242 of the Letters of John Stuart Mill (1910).
[351] The Subjection of Women, chap. iii. p. 144: “A celebrated woman, in a work which I hope will some day be published, remarks truly that everything a woman does is done at odd times.” A good deal of Mill's treatment of this branch of his subject recalls Miss Nightingale's Suggestions.
[352] Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, by Abbott and Campbell, vol. i. p. 270.
[353] “And there may be some tender and delicate woman among us, who feels that she has a Divine vocation to fulfil the most repulsive offices towards the dying inmates of a hospital, or the soldier perishing in a foreign land” (Essays and Reviews, 1860).
[354] In some testamentary instructions, made early in 1862, she expressed a desire that the “stuff” should be “revised and arranged according to the hints of Mr. Jowett and Mr. Mill, but without altering the spirit according to their principles with which I entirely disagree. But he who would have done this is gone”—doubtless a reference to Mr. Clough. In 1865 she asked Mr. Jowett himself if he would edit the “stuff” for her. But he remained of his former opinion that it required to be recast entirely: it was, he said (April 24), “rather the preparation or materials of a book than a book itself.”