An excellent appreciation of Miss Nightingale, with many particulars of her work at Scutari.
(11) The Nightingale Fund. Report of Proceedings at a Public Meeting held in London, on Nov. 29, 1855.… Offices of the Nightingale Fund, 5 Parliament Street. Pamphlet, in yellow wrappers, pp. 36 + 16 + 24.
Pages 1–36, report of the Public Meeting; pp. 1–16, “Appendix.” Extracts from Leading Articles in the London Journals, etc.; pp. 1–24, “Addenda,” Report of Public Meetings in the provinces, 1856, etc.
Circ. 1856
(12) The Prophecy of Ada, late Countess of Lovelace, on her friend Miss Florence Nightingale. Written in the year 1851. Music composed by W. H. Montgomery. London: G. Emery & Co. [no date].
The poem—“A Portrait: taken from Life”—is printed on the back of the song (see Vol. I. pp. [38], [142]).
1857
(13) Davis. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse. Edited by Jane Williams. 2 vols. Hurst & Blackett, 1857.
Davis was one of Miss Stanley's party. She served as cook in the General Hospital at Balaclava. Though the work of an obviously uneducated and prejudiced woman, the book is useful as illustrating the intrigue against Miss Nightingale in the Crimea, and as reflecting the hostility which her strict discipline excited among some of the nurses. The book is not to be trusted. Miss Nightingale made very pungent remarks on this old woman's romancing about Lord Raglan and others.
(14) Pincoffs. Experiences of a Civilian in Eastern Military Hospitals.… By Peter Pincoffs, M.D., late Civil Physician to the Scutari Hospitals. William & Norgate.