[50] A Century of Family Letters, vol. ii. pp. 106, 107.

[51] Fraser's Magazine, May 1873.

[52] Suggestions for Thought, vol. ii. p. 401.

[53] Suggestions for Thought, vol. ii. pp. 229, 231.

[54] Suggestions for Thought, vol. ii. pp. 236, 237.

[55] History of Nursing, vol. ii. p. 4.

[56] Letter to Mrs. C. S. Roundell, August 4, 1896.

[57] Mr. Sidney Herbert's speech at the Nightingale Fund Meeting, Nov. 29, 1855.

[58] Much of this appeal was suggested to Florence, in almost identical words (as an extant letter shows), by her Aunt Mai.

[59] George Eliot's Life as Related in her Letters and Journals, edited by J. W. Cross, vol. i. p. 285.