[111] In succession to Sir William Mansfield (Lord Sandhurst). On his return from India Lord Sandhurst came to see Miss Nightingale (July 8, 1870), and they corresponded afterwards.
[112] Of Lord Lawrence and Sir Bartle Frere, Miss Nightingale wrote to Madame Mohl (March 26, 1869): “You can ask Sir Bartle Frere about Sir John Lawrence if you like. But they are so unlike, yet each so roundly perfect in his own way, that they can never understand each other—never touch at any point, not thro' eternity. I love and admire them both with all my mind and with all my heart, but have long since given up the slightest attempt to make either understand the other. But each is too much of a man, too noble, too chivalrous, to denigrate the other.”
[113] The substance of much of her Memorandum to Lord Mayo was embodied in the “Observations” which she contributed to the Indian Sanitary Blue-book, 1869–70; see especially p. 43.
[114] Bibliography A, No. 56.
[115] See Bibliography A, Nos. 57, 62.
[116] Captain Galton, “On Sanitary Progress in India,” 1876 (Journal of the Society of Arts, vol. xxiv. pp. 519–534.) This is the best short account of the matter that I have come across. It is more detailed than Miss Nightingale's Paper of 1874. For further particulars, a reader should, of course, refer to the Annual Sanitary Blue-books.
[117] So Sir Bartle Frere reported to Miss Nightingale that Sir John Strachey had said to him; and Sir John wrote in much the same sense to Miss Nightingale herself.
[118] Bibliography A, No. 49 (note).