[109] Roebuck Committee, Q. 6140.
[110] This fact, reported by the Roebuck Committee, barbed one of Mr. Kinglake's sarcasms against the males (vi. 427 n.). It also greatly impressed John Bright. See Mr. G. M. Trevelyan's Life of him, 1913, p. 242.
[111] Statement, p. 26 n.
[112] Letter to Mr. Herbert, Feb. 5, 1855.
[113] Narrative of a Residence on the Bosphorus, p. 49. Any reader who wishes to be harrowed should read the following pages in Lady Alicia's Journal. She died in July 1913 in her 95th year.
[114] Roebuck Committee, Fifth Report, pp. 20, 21.
[115] Eastern Hospitals, vol. i. p. 68.
[116] Scutari and its Hospitals, by S. G. O., p. 24.
[117] Kinglake, p. 430. He cites an example of the complaints in a private letter from Sir John Burgoyne to Lord Raglan (March 27, 1855). The complaint of the “groove-going men” has been revived in our own day by Lord Stanmore, who complains of Miss Nightingale (Memoir of Sidney Herbert, vol. i. p. 381) that she got things (which the Purveyor had failed to get) instead of informing him where they could be got. She acted on what is a golden rule in cases of emergency. When she wanted a thing done without delay, she did it herself.
[118] Pincoffs, pp. 82–83; and see Hall, p. 378.