[240] Not really a niece, but Miss Nightingale was “Aunt Florence” to all her cousins in the second generation; as also to the children of some old friends.

[241] She was writing, it will be observed, on the anniversary of Sidney Herbert's death.

[242] Younger son of Mr. Shore Smith, who had assumed the name of Nightingale in 1893.

[243] See above, p. [240].

[244] See Vol. I. p. [435].

[245] In a letter of 1891 to Mr. Jowett.

[246] He had resigned the Prime Ministership on March 3, and made his last speech in the House of Commons on March 1. He was then 85.

[247] Bibliography A, No. 138.

[248] Bibliography A, No. 135.

[249] Vol. I. p. [385].