CHAPTER VIII

MR. JOWETT AND OTHER FRIENDS

Miss Nightingale's public acquaintances and private friends. Her sympathetic nature--Acquaintances made on public business passing into friendships--Sir Henry Yule. II. Affectionate sympathy with her relations--Death of her "Aunt Mai" (1889)--Letters to her younger relations--A burglary in South Street. III. Last years with Mr. Jowett--His illness in South Street (1887)--Their scheme for a "Nightingale Professorship of Statistics"--Mr. Jowett's illnesses and death (1892)--Death of Sir Harry Verney and of Mr. Shore Smith (1894). IV. Miss Nightingale on Mr. Jowett's death--Correspondence with Lord Lansdowne--Mr. Jowett's precepts on old age 385