Lot 61
Nightingale (Florence) Autograph Letter signed to Messrs Pennington & Bridgen, 1879, regarding Pennington & Bridgen's design of Pendlebury Children's Hospital, "I am much obliged to you for your promises to make a tracing of one of the Wards."
Hammer Price: £1,200
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Nightingale (Florence, reformer of army medical services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Autograph Letter signed to Messrs Pennington & Bridgen, 1p., 8vo, London, 1st July 1879, regarding Pennington & Bridgen's design of Pendlebury Children's Hospital, "I am much obliged to you for your promises to make a tracing of one of the Wards. Might I ask you to be so very kind as to indicate to me, What are the 'very radical & important improvements in the Wards & their adjuncts' which you say you 'could make'?", fold.
Description
Nightingale (Florence, reformer of army medical services and of nursing organization, 1820-1910) Autograph Letter signed to Messrs Pennington & Bridgen, 1p., 8vo, London, 1st July 1879, regarding Pennington & Bridgen's design of Pendlebury Children's Hospital, "I am much obliged to you for your promises to make a tracing of one of the Wards. Might I ask you to be so very kind as to indicate to me, What are the 'very radical & important improvements in the Wards & their adjuncts' which you say you 'could make'?", fold.