Lot 244
244
NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale') to Colonel Gordon Drummond of the Coldstream Guards, General Hospital, Balaclava, 15 April 1856, asking permission to retain a private in the Coldstreams, Samuel Vickery, as an orderly in the case of the regiment being ordered home: Vickery 'was frostbitten soon after Inkermann, & sent down to Hospital in Scutari. He recovered sufficiently to become one of my Orderlies' and has since become indispensible -- 'I cannot speak too highly of Vickery's honesty & trust-worthiness. On one occasion, he was the principal means of discovering a robbery, of a large amount, of Stores', 2½ pages, 4to, on a bifolium.
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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale') to Colonel Gordon Drummond of the Coldstream Guards, General Hospital, Balaclava, 15 April 1856, asking permission to retain a private in the Coldstreams, Samuel Vickery, as an orderly in the case of the regiment being ordered home: Vickery 'was frostbitten soon after Inkermann, & sent down to Hospital in Scutari. He recovered sufficiently to become one of my Orderlies' and has since become indispensible -- 'I cannot speak too highly of Vickery's honesty & trust-worthiness. On one occasion, he was the principal means of discovering a robbery, of a large amount, of Stores', 2½ pages, 4to, on a bifolium.

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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale') to Colonel Gordon Drummond of the Coldstream Guards, General Hospital, Balaclava, 15 April 1856, asking permission to retain a private in the Coldstreams, Samuel Vickery, as an orderly in the case of the regiment being ordered home: Vickery 'was frostbitten soon after Inkermann, & sent down to Hospital in Scutari. He recovered sufficiently to become one of my Orderlies' and has since become indispensible -- 'I cannot speak too highly of Vickery's honesty & trust-worthiness. On one occasion, he was the principal means of discovering a robbery, of a large amount, of Stores', 2½ pages, 4to, on a bifolium.
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Please note that the illustration for this lot is incorrectly numbered 245 in the printed catalogue.

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