[356] From a letter to her father.
[357] Letters of Benjamin Jowett, 1899, p. 245.
[358] The article on Cavour was in July; that on Tocqueville, in October.
[359] For an application of her religious views to the care of India, see the passage quoted in vol. ii. p. 1.
[360] In 1867 he proposed to close the hospital which her friends the Nuns of Bermondsey had opened in Great Ormond Street. They of course “went to Miss Nightingale.” She persuaded Lady Herbert to intercede for the nuns, but Manning would not yield further than to refer the case to Rome. Miss Nightingale then organized a party at Rome on the side of the nuns. There is an extensive correspondence amongst her papers on this subject. She defeated Manning in this matter.
[361] Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, 1883, vol. i. p. 19.
[362] Cleanthes, freely rendered by J. A. Symonds.
[363] George Eliot's Life as related in her Letters, vol. ii. p. 84.
[364] Notes on Nursing, ed. 1860, p. 88.
[365] Tacitus, Agricola.