One of the last messages sent by Miss Nightingale. The anniversaries celebrated by the Veterans, she says, “have always been marked days to her also.”
APPENDIX B
List of Printed Writings, whether published or privately circulated, by Miss Nightingale, chronologically arranged
(For the limited scope of this list, see the Preface, Vol. I. p. [viii].)
1854
(1) Letter in the Times, October 24, by “One who has known Miss Nightingale.”
(2) “Who is ‘Mrs.’ Nightingale?” A biographical article in the Examiner (reprinted in the Times, October 30).
These two communications fixed the popular idea of Miss Nightingale. For the article in the Examiner, see Vol. I. p. [164].
1855
(3) Bracebridge. “British Hospitals in the East.” Report in the Times, October 16, 1855, of a lecture given at Coventry by Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, supplemented by a letter from him in the Times, October 20.