[69] For the actual number, see below, p. [149].
[70] Life of Lord Houghton, vol. i. p. 521.
[71] This famous letter—obviously private at the time—was printed in extenso, for a controversial purpose (see below, p. [245]), in the Daily News of October 28, 1854. Miss Nightingale was much distressed when she heard of the publication, and her family could not think how it had “got into the papers”; but they had shown it, and copies of it, too widely.
[72] The text of the instructions may be found in the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, October 1910.
[73] Stanmore, vol. i. p. 342.
[74] Miss Jones resigned her appointment at St. John's House in 1868, owing to differences of opinion with the Council, and set up a private nursing establishment. She died in 1887.
[75] Stanmore, vol. i. p. 342.
[76] From the Life and Death of Athena, an Owlet from the Parthenon, a manuscript book charmingly written and illustrated by Lady Verney. She wrote it in 1855, and sent it to Scutari “to try and make Flo and Mrs. Bracebridge laugh when F. was recovering from her fever.”
[77] Letter to Captain Galton, May 5, 1863.
[78] The Statement (see Bibliography A, No. 5).