[151] The initials are not the real ones.
[153] Bibliography A, No. 75.
[155] Bibliography A, No. 80.
[156] Miss Machin had in 1875 gone from St. Thomas's, with a staff of nurses, to the General Hospital at Montreal.
[157] Full particulars may be found in the Annual Reports of the Nightingale Fund (now accessible in the Library of the British Museum).
To hands that work and eyes that see
Give wisdom's heavenly lore,
That whole and sick and weak and strong
May praise Thee ever more.
[159] To another Superintendent who was taking up a new post, Miss Nightingale sent to her room “a wreath of everlastings and corn to be my little messengers to say how you are sowing seed that will grow up and be the Bread of Life for us, and how the work that you are doing is everlasting. Thank God for it.”