The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2

The truer, the safer, the better years of life are the later ones. We must find new ways of using them, doing not so much, but in a better manner--economising because economy ha...

What can be done for the health of the home without the woman of the home? In the West, as in the East, women are needed as Rural Health Missioners.--FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (1893).

General Gordon was the bravest of men where God's cause and that of others was concerned, and his courage rose with loneliness. He was the meekest of men where himself only was...

Miss Nightingale did not do as she had planned, and go in her own person to St. Thomas's Hospital, but in another sense the year 1872 was the year of her descent upon it. Not, i...

Never to know that you are beaten is the way to victory. To be before one's Government is an honourable distinction. What greater reward can a good worker desire than that the n...

There is a vast work going on in India, and the fruits will be reaped in time. Not all at once. We must go on working in faith and in hope.--DR. JOHN SUTHERLAND (_Letter to Miss...

"You live," said Lord Napier and Ettrick, in calling upon Miss Nightingale one day, "between a Palace and a Park, and have one of the best views in London." A pilgrim who makes...

From a correspondent in the North of England: "I have got a colliery proprietor here to co-operate with the workmen to build a Hospital for Accidents. Will you kindly give your...

We are trying to reduce chaos into shape. It is three years to-day since I first felt what an awful wreck I had got myself into. I interfering with Government affairs; and the c...

In this case you are doing much more than providing for the health of the Troops; for, to be effectual, the improvement must extend to the civil population, and thus another gre...

To be alone is nothing; but to be without sympathy in a crowd, this is to be confined in solitude. Where there is want of sympathy, of attraction, given and returned, must it no...

I am glad that you have given up drudgery for public offices.... The position which you held was always a precarious one, because dependent on "temples of friendship" and the go...

From the first I had a sort of fixed faith that Florence Nightingale could do anything, and that faith is still fresh in me; and so it came to pass that the instant that name en...

I am more hopeful than you appear to be in regard to the good likely to be effected by the Report. Although our Indian administration has great difficulties to contend with owin...

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close--then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some...

The year 1866 was one of stirring events both at home and abroad. It saw the downfall of the Whig Administration which, with a brief interval (1858-59), had held office under di...

When Sidney Herbert died, his work as an army reformer was in part arrested because he had never put in what Miss Nightingale called "the main-spring." He had failed to reform t...

The years immediately after Sidney Herbert's death were among the busiest and most useful in Miss Nightingale's life. She was engaged during them in carrying their "joint work u...

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God--to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness. Wh...

(31) _Das Rote Kreuz_, No. 23, 1895. Published at Bern. At pp. 206-209 an article by Dr. Jordy, of Bern, on "Miss Florence Nightingale, the First Pioneer of the Red Cross," with...

Footner, Miss F. Alicia de Biden, ii. 469 Forester, Lady Maria, i. 148, 151, 152, 245 Forster, John, _Life of Dickens_, i. 443 Fort Pitt, Chatham (_q.v._), i. 390 Founders, ii....

Verney, Frances Parthenope, Lady [(1) _General_; (2) _Letters_.] (1) _General_:-- Elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nightingale, i. 3-4; birthplace, i. 4; birthday, i. 429; F...

commissions, ii. 108; communications with F. N., ii. 146, 149, 150, 153; declines to institute a sanitary executive, ii. 159; faltering, ii. 156; returns to England, calls on F....

ii. 357, 361; gives reputed portrait to nation, ii. 467; letters to F. N., ii. 127, 413; tributes to F. N., ii. 127; sends her flowers weekly, ii. 127, 306; F. N.'s tribute to,...

466, ii. 125, 190, 192, 194, 254, 256, 326, 335; Home Sister appointed (1874), ii. 248; 50th anniversary, i. 456 _n._, celebrated in America, ii. 421; F. N.'s personal concern i...

i. 362-74, 387 _seq._; "Advisory Council to the War Office" (1862-65), ii. 64-78; F. N. and War Office patronage, ii. 73, 74, 408; tributes to her services, i. 375, ii. 77. _See...

of it (1865), ii. 54; urges appointment of Sir J. Lawrence as Viceroy (1863), ii. 43; arranges interview between him and F. N., ii. 44, 45; Foreign Secretary (1866), ii. 105, 11...

Jones, Miss Mary, superintendent of St. John's House (_q.v._) which undertook the nursing at King's College Hospital (_q.v._), i. 444, 464; friendship with, and admiration for,...

(11) _Letters from Florence Nightingale to_:-- Sir Henry Acland, ii. 318 Dr. T. Graham Balfour, i. 354, 377, 432 A Bereaved Mother (Crimea), i. 239 Henry Bonham Carter, ii. 247,...

Astley's, ii. 110 Athens, F. N. at, i. 87 _seq._ Atherstone, Warwickshire, ii. 236, 237 Atonement, the, i. 486, ii. 234 Auckland, Lord (Bishop of Bath and Wells), i. 325 Aucklan...

1892: the Nurses' Battle, ii. 361-362; letter to Lord Cross on a scheme of Indian sanitation, ii. 379; organizes Health Lectures, etc., in Bucks, ii. 384 1893: the Nurses' Battl...

(7) _Various Broadsheets, Popular Songs, etc._, about Miss Nightingale (see Vol. I. p. 266). A collection of them is preserved amongst her Papers. The following is the text of t...

you for your books. S. Jean de la Croix's life I keep thankfully. I am never tired of reading that part where he prays for the return for all his services, _Domine, pati et cont...

Millbank, i. 392 Milman, Dean, i. 385 Milnes, R. Monckton (Lord Houghton): friend of the Nightingale family, i. 34, 141; speech at meeting of Nightingale Fund (1855), i. 269, 27...

Tacitus, _Agricola_, i. 503 Talleyrand, i. 26 Tamburini, i. 19, 25 Tapton, i. 49 Tastu, Madame, i. 21 Taylor, Fanny M., ii. 460 Tel-el-Kebir, ii. 267 Temple, Sir Richard, ii. 27...

Campbell, Sir George, ii. 177, 285, 295, 296, 298; lectures at Oxford for F. N., ii. 334; F. N. on, ii. 274 Campbell, Lewis, ii. 399 Canadian Expedition (1861), ii. 9, 10 Candol...

Peel, Hon. George, _The Future of England_, i. xxviii Peel, Sir Robert, i. 25, 148, ii. 97, 213; the School of, ii. 392, 403 Percy, Jocelyne, i. 192, 193, 241 Perfectibility, F....

_Volunteer Movement_, Letter on the (1861), ii. 441; quoted or referred to, i. 284 _n._, 496, ii. 7, 8 _Water Arrival in India, A_ (1878), ii. 289, 451 _Zemindar, the Sun and th...

account of Miss N.'s work. This is one of the most important authorities, being the testimony of an eye-witness and a medical man; but Dr. Pincoffs was not at Scutari till the m...

Clark, Sir John (son of the foregoing), i. 327 Clark, Le Gros, i. 460 Clark, W., civil engineer, ii. 177, 214, 278, 280, 282 Clarke, Mary. _See_ Mohl Clarke, Mrs. (matron), i. 1...

1866: ill-health, ii. 106, 112; work for the War Office, ii. 71; a double disappointment, ii. 106; Indian sanitary business: story of a lost dispatch, ii. 108, 109; sees Lord Na...

i. 325; command visit to Balmoral (Oct.), i. 326; conversations and negotiations with Lord Panmure, i. 327; confers again with Sir J. McNeill at Edinburgh, i. 328; return to Lea...

Cranworth, Lady, i. 134, 300 Cranworth, Lord Chancellor, i. 266 Craven, Mrs. Dacre. _See_ Lees Crawford, Dr. T., ii. 338, 407 Creeds, and Works, i. 58, 488 Crewe, Marquis of, sp...

1854: Battle of the Alma (Sept. 20), i. 145; attention called to nursing deficiencies (Oct. 9), i. 146; F. N. informs Sidney Herbert of her scheme for going out with a party of...

Works _versus_ doctrines, i. 58 Wreford, Mr., Purveyor-General, i. 157, 225 Wright, R. S., ii. 60 and _n._, 399 Writing, doing and, i. 94; F. N.'s attitude towards, i. 93-4, 474...

1845: nursing her father's mother, i. 31, 49; death of her nurse, i. 31; country-house visits, i. 36; housekeeping, i. 42; nursing plan disallowed, i. 44; bitter disappointment,...

Bonham Carter, John (M.P. for Portsmouth), i. 29 Bonham Carter, John ("Jack," M.P. for Winchester), i. 423 Bonham Carter, Malcolm, ii. 389 Bonham Carter, Norman, ii. 389 Books,...

Single Life, the, i. 101 Sismondi, i. 17, ii. 391 Sisterhoods and nursing, i. 44, 62, 63, ii. 270, 272. _See also_ Orders Sisters of Charity, Paris, i. 127, 162, 432 Sisters, Ho...

i. 503; F. N.'s estrangement from, ii. 15; reconciliation, ii. 15 _n._, 387-8; death, ii. 387; various references, i. 141, 368, ii. 96 Smith, William, M.P., of Parndon, i. 4, 5...

St. Vincent de Paul, ii. 272 Salève, ascent of the, i. 17 Salisbury Infirmary, ii. 256, 452 Salisbury, Marquis of (Lord Cranborne), F. N. introduced to, by Lord Stanley (1866),...

against F. N., i. 167, 168, 206-7, 214, 287, 466 Stewart, Mrs. Shaw, one of F. N.'s mainstays in the Crimea, i. 300; Memorial Cross at Balaclava and, i. 294 _n._; proposed by F....

1879: communications on India with Mr. Gladstone, ii. 292, 293; various writings on India, ii. 451-2 1880: death of her mother, ii. 323; at Ramsgate and Seaton, ii. 324; interes...

_Letters from Egypt_ (1854), i. 95, ii. 437; quoted or referred to, i. 85, 86, 369 _n._ _Mortality of the British Army_ (1858), i. 376, ii. 439 _Note of Interrogation_, etc. (18...

396, 404, 409 Herbert, Mrs. Sidney (Lady Herbert of Lea), marriage, i. 79; meets F. N. at Rome, i. 79; friendship with F. N., i. 79, 80, 134, 374, 381, 388, 411; helps F. N. at...

in work for Army reform, i. 220, 355, 356; member of the Royal Commission (1857) and in its inner circle, i. 329, 331, 332, 355; one of the Herbert-Nightingale "cabal," i. 365;...

Miss Nightingale's "Jubilee Year"--A retrospect (1837-1887). Selection of a new matron at St. Thomas's Hospital. II. Queen Victoria's "Jubilee Institute for Nurses"--Misgivings-...

1820: birth at Florence, christening, i. 4 1820-37: childhood and education:--early homes: Kynsham Court (Hereford), i. 9; Lea Hurst (Derby), i. 9; Embley (Hants), i. 9; nursing...

business, ii. 168, 171, 176, 178, 180, 276, 283, 332, 344, 369; in her books, ii. 164, 166, 167 _n._, 196; his position at the War Office threatened (1869), ii. 173; reports on...

High rate of mortality among the British army in India: Miss Nightingale as a "saviour" of the army. Her determination to obtain a Royal Commission for India on the lines of the...

Horner, Miss Joanna, i. 33 Horse Guards, the (office), i. 179, 200, 403, ii. 4, 6, 9, 58; a "Horse Guards letter," i. 437 Horses, army, in the Crimea, ii. 65; in Hansom cabs, ii...

Ionian Islands, British occupation, i. 90 Irby, Miss Paulina, ii. 235, 320, 388, 417 Irish Census, i. 436, 437 Italian pictures, i. 47, ii. 310 Italy: F. N.'s love of, ii. 393;...

The spirit of Rabbi Ben Ezra. The latter years to be the best--Miss Nightingale's letters in this sense--Her own fullness of work. II. Continual interest in India--Lord Elgin's...

ii. 18, 19, 32; climate not responsible, ii. 20; Presidency Sanitary Commissions set up (1864), ii. 42, 45, 46, 49; threatened, ii. 372; proposed transference of functions of Sa...

_Sanitation in India_, various articles on, ii. 377, 379, 380, 406, 453 _seq._ _Sick Nursing and Health Nursing_ (1893), ii. 365, 456 _Statements exhibiting the Voluntary Contri...

Death of Miss Nightingale's mother--Illness--Visits to the seaside and Claydon. II. The elections of 1880--Her special preoccupations and general work at this period--Visit to S...

State of the workhouse infirmaries--Report on the Metropolitan workhouses in 1866--Miss Nightingale a prime mover in the remedial legislation of 1867. II. Her friendship with Mr...

Self-control, ii. 266 Self-sufficiency, ii. 264 Sellon, Miss, i. 159, 424 Service of Man, as Service of God, i. 53 Shaftesbury, Lord, F. N.'s acquaintance with, i. 81; Chartists...

Miss Nightingale's "little Indian Department all to herself," a main pre-occupation. Rest-cure at Malvern (Dec. 1867)--Visit to her mother at Lea Hurst (July-Oct. 1868)--Miss Ni...

"Reports not self-executive": Miss Nightingale's determination to put the Indian Report into execution. Correspondence with Lord Stanley--His interview with Sir Charles Wood--Mi...

Bruce, Lady Augusta (Stanley), i. 124, 281, ii. 93 Bruce, H. A. (Lord Aberdare), ii. 212 Brussels, F. N.'s study of hospitals at, i. 417 Buckingham, Duke of, ii. 282 Buckingham...

unsolicited by F. N., i. 188-92, 247; breach in friendship with F. N., i. 192; takes charge of Koulali hospital, i. 193; describes F. N. at work, i. 234; her _Hospitals and Sist...

Miss Nightingale's work on Indian questions. Her sources of information and industrious study: her opportunities of effective action less than in earlier years. II. Continued in...

Miss Nightingale and the War Office: her position as consultant. Explanation of the position--Her expert authority on certain questions--Official legatee of Sidney Herbert--Corr...

Ignatius Loyola, i. 96, ii. 272 Ilbert, Sir C. P., ii. 333; the "Ilbert Bill," ii. 331, 339, 343 India: F. N.'s knowledge of, how derived, ii. 25, 27, 273-5; education, ii. 331,...

Public events in 1866 in relation to Miss Nightingale's work. Letters on those events. II. The story of a lost dispatch. Sir John Lawrence's scheme for sanitary organization in...

Miss Nightingale's house in South Street--Sir Harry Verney's house in the same street. II. Her servants--Housekeeping. III. Miss Nightingale as a hostess--Reminiscences by a nur...

_Spectator_, i. 267, ii. 35 Spencer, Miss, ii. 411 Spenser's _Faerie Queene_, ii. 128 Spielberg, i. 479 Spiritualism, ii. 425 Spitalfields weavers, i. 424 Spottiswoode, William,...

Miss Nightingale's increased attention to the Nightingale Training School. Opening of the new buildings of St. Thomas's Hospital-- Appointment of a new Medical Instructor of the...

I ask no heaven till earth be Thine, Nor glory-crown, while work of mine Remaineth here. When earth shall shine Among the stars, Her sins wiped out, her captives free, Her voice...

Miss Nightingale's thought of entering St. Thomas's Hospital (1872) --Dissuaded by Mr. Jowett--"This year I go out of office"--Meaning of her statement--Her connection with the...

(1) _Chronological_:-- Sees F. N. (1861), i. 492, ii. 24; corresponds with her on her Indian _Observations_ (1862), ii. 26; appointment as Viceroy urged by F. N., ii. 43; appoin...

"Cabal," F. N.'s, i. 313, 365 "Cabinet," F. N.'s, i. 313, 357, 367, 492, ii. 21 Cadmus, i. 32 Caird, Sir James, ii. 289, 292 _n._, 333 Caird, Mr., M.P., i. 437 Cairo, mosques, i...

Miss Nightingale's concern for a better organization of the public health service in India. Approaching retirement of Sir John Lawrence: her anxiety to insert "the main-spring"-...

Miss Nightingale as a central department relating to hospitals and nurses. Criticism of hospital plans--"Suggestions" for nursing organization in public institutions. II. Visits...

Newport, Lady, i. 372 New Zealand, contribution to F. N.'s Crimean fund, i. 270; depopulation, ii. 440; sanitary instructions for, ii. 70 Nicholson, G. T., i. 29 Nicholson, Hann...

The question is no less an one than this: How to create a public health department for India; how to bring a higher civilization into India. What a work, what a noble task for a...

1864: writes instructions for her death, ii. 103; sees Garibaldi, ii. 90; writes on Native Races, ii. 79; work for War Office, ii. 68, 70, 71; interposes to secure advance in In...

The years of Miss Nightingale's most trying work. Her helpers--The indispensable Dr. Sutherland--His constant service--Miss Nightingale as task-mistress--Her method of "conversa...

_Health Missioners for Rural India_ (1896), ii. 405, 457 _Hospital Statistics and Hospital Plans_ (1862), ii. 441; quoted and referred to, i. 412, 433 _How People may Live and n...

Woman's Suffrage, i. 332, ii. 215, 216, 217; F. N. on, ii. 451 Wombwell's menagerie, ii. 110 Wood, Sir Charles (Viscount Halifax), Indian Secretary, ii. 33, 36, 38, 41, 42, 43,...

i. 269; in Manchester, eulogium on F. N., i. 271-2, 305; introduced to F. N. (1857), i. 339; agrees to write on report of the Royal Commission (1857), i. 377; Colonial Secretary...

Miss Nightingale's public acquaintances and private friends. Her sympathetic nature--Acquaintances made on public business passing into friendships--Sir Henry Yule. II. Affectio...

Despondency after the death of Sidney Herbert--Sir George Lewis and the War Office--Lord de Grey reappointed under-secretary. II. "Saving things from the wreck"--The Herbert Hos...

_Observations on the ... Stational Reports ... in India_ (1863), ii. 442-3; history of, ii. 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, 36; influence of, ii. 158; scope, ii. 27; style, ii. 25, 27, 443;...

Miss Nightingale's fondness for Catholic books of devotion--Idea of making a selection--Mr. Jowett's views of mysticism. II. Miss Nightingale's Preface to her _Notes from Devoti...

Arnold, Matthew, _Literature and Dogma_, F. N. on, ii. 219 Asceticism, i. 369, ii. 140 Ashburton, 1st Baron, and Lady Ashburton, i. 35, 37 Ashburton, 2nd Baron, i. 422 Ashburton...

_Suggestions on ... Nursing for Hospitals in India_ (1865), ii. 55, 157, 444 _Suggestions on providing ... Nurses for the Sick Poor ..._ (1867), ii. 445; account of, ii. 135, 13...

I beg of you and pray you to look back upon the past with thankfulness and upon the future with hope--when there has been so much done and there is so much to do ... many beginn...

Army Medical Service: F. N.'s zeal for, ii. 67, 68; asked to mark a list of officers, ii. 74; Medical Officers' Warrant (1858), i. 394 Army Medical Statistics, i. 389 Army Sanit...

Indian Medical Service, ii. 70 Indian Mutiny, F. N.'s offer to go out, i. 371; the moral drawn by her from, i. 365, ii. 19, 20 Indian National Congress, ii. 332, 382 Indian Plag...

1888: Indian work, ii. 377; sees Lord Lansdowne, ii. 376-7 1889: a New Year's Greeting, ii. 393; the Nurses' Battle, ii. 360; writes retrospect of her Indian work, ii. 380 1890:...