Nightingale, Florence, (1820-1910), reformer of hospital nursing

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Surname:	Nightingale
Forenames:	Florence
Gender:	Female
Date:	1820-1910
Biography:	ODNB link for Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910), reformer of hospital nursing
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P147354 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P21253 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Florence Nightingale

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1878: handwritten 13 page letter addressed to 'My dear Matron, dear Home Sister, dear friends, & fellow Nurses all'	Royal College of Nursing Archives	3181	See Annual Return 2019
2	corresp and papers	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 43393-403, 45750-859, 46123, 46176, 46385, 47714-67, 49623, 52427, 59786, 68882-90
3	corresp and papers	The London Archives: City of London	H01/ST/NC	NRA 34172 Nightingale
4	corresp and papers	Claydon House Trust		NRA 43179 Nightingale
5	1849-1910: corresp and papers	The London Archives: City of London	H01/ST/NTS	NRA 4962 Lambeth School
6	prints and photographs	The London Archives: City of London	H01/ST/NCPH
7	c1820-1910: corresp, case book, photographs and other ephemera	Florence Nightingale Museum
8	1829-1905: letters (598 items)	Wellcome Collection	MSS 5471-83	NRA 30524
9	misc corresp and papers	The London Archives: City of London	A/NFC	NRA 24276
10	1856-99: corresp	University of British Columbia: Woodward Biomedical Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1977-78
11	diary	Claydon House Trust		See ex inf The Independent 15/4/2000 - see HMC file
12	1867-1900: corresp with HW Acland	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Acland	NRA 22893
13	1856-76: letters (19) to Sir William Aitken	Wellcome Collection	MS.5471	NRA 30524
14	letters to TG Balfour	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50134
15	letters to Bonham-Carter family	Hampshire Archives	94M72	NRA 22606 Bonham-Carter
16	1897-1902: letters to Charles Bonham Carter	Hampshire Archives	95A03	See Annual Return 2003
17	1865-87: corresp (85 items) with Henry Bonham Carter and others on business of Nightingale Fund with misc papers	The London Archives: City of London	H01/ST/NC18/15, 18, 23, 26, 27	NRA 34172 Nightingale
18	1855-58: letters to Lady Canning	West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds	Canning papers	NRA 7618 Canning
19	1866-83: corresp with Sir Edwin Chadwick	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	CHADWICK	NRA 21653 Chadwick
20	1871-74: corresp (copies) with William Clark	Royal British Nurses Association	BCN3/4	NRA 41542 RBNA
21	1891-96: letters (19) to GH De'ath	Wellcome Collection	MS 5473	NRA 30524
22	1863: corresp with Doyle family	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS North	NRA 837 North
23	1876-90: letters (88) to CBN Dunn	Derbyshire Record Office	D2546	NRA 25674
24	1858-75: letters (128) to William Farr	Wellcome Collection	MS 5474	NRA 30524
25	1861-84: corresp with WE Gladstone	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 44397-488 passim
26	1890-1902: letters (121) to Louisa Gordon	Wellcome Collection	MS 5476	NRA 30524
27	1883-92: letters (14) to Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 234	NRA 24627 Grant-Duff
28	1884-94: letters (19) to Mrs TH Green	Wellcome Collection	MS 5477	NRA 30524
29	1855-56: corresp with Sir J Hall	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 39867
30	c1849-89: letters (33) to Lord Houghton	Cambridge University: Trinity College Library		See HMC corresp file 19/2/1987
31	1892-1901: letters (20) to Amy Hughes	Wellcome Collection	MS 5478	NRA 30524
32	1861-1893: letters (c700) from Benjamin Jowett	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections	III N etc	NRA 37008 Jowett
33	1855-68: letters (35) to Sir John Lefroy	Wellcome Collection	MS 5479	NRA 30524
34	1882-83: corresp with Sir Robert Loyd-Lindsay	British Red Cross Museum and Archives	D/Wan	NRA 30569 Loyd-Lindsay
35	1858-76: corresp with Sir Thomas Longmore	Wellcome Collection	RAMC 1139/ LP 53, LP 54	NRA 5981 RAMC coll
36	1881-1898: corresp with Eva Luckes	Barts Health NHS Trust Archives	RLHPP/LUC/1	NRA 35882 Luckes
37	1873-79: letters and papers to Annie Machin rel to the new Montreal hospital	University of Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library	229
38	1875-1883: letters (33) to Sir Louis Mallet	Oxford University: Balliol College Historic Collections		NRA 42077 Mallet
39	1852-59: corresp with HE Manning	Emory University: Pitts Theology Library	MSS 002
40	corresp with Martin family	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	DG6	NRA 13165 Martin
41	letters to Sir Ranald Martin	National Library of Ireland		See ex inf NLI 1962
42	1860-63: letters to Duke of Newcastle	Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections	Ne	NRA 7411 Pelham
43	1886-1892: letters to Ellen Owen	Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives	WM 545
44	1861: letters to Sir James Paget	Barts Health NHS Trust Archives	X102
45	1855-58: letters (10) to Lord Panmure	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD45	NRA 17164
46	corresp with Karl Pearson	UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections	PEARSON	NRA 18115 Pearson
47	corresp with Lord Pembroke	Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre	2057	NRA 22080 Herbert
48	1868-75: letters (30) to Charles Plowden	Wellcome Collection	MS 5480	NRA 30524
49	1854-55: corresp with Lord Raglan	National Army Museum Templer Study Centre	6807/279-305	NRA 20794 Somerset
50	1855-1910: corresp with William Rathbone	Liverpool Record Office	610 RAT	NRA 30142
51	1868-1898: corresp with William Rathbone	Liverpool Record Office	Acc 5027	See Annual Return 1994
52	1882: letters to William Rathbone	Bangor University, Archives and Special Collections		See Annual Return 1994
53	1895: letters (54) to Sir Robert Rawlinson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 851
54	1861-1902: corresp with Lord Ripon	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 43456
55	1879-90: letters to William Rowntrie Robertson	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur B 263	See Annual Report 1972-73
56	corresp with William Smith	King's College London: St Thomas' House Library		NRA 156 Smith
57	1858-78: letters to Sir Charles Trevelyan	Newcastle University: Special Collections	CET	NRA 12238 Trevelyan
58	1870-1902: corresp with Verney family	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 68882-90 (9 vols)
59	1862: letters to Lord Wemyss	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS208	NRA 10743 Charteris
60	1854-68: corresp rel to Crimea etc	Wellcome Collection	RAMC/271	NRA 5981 RAMC coll
61	1856: copy corresp rel to Crimea	Wellcome Collection	MS 6930	See Annual Return 1992
62	c1827-1910: misc papers and corresp	Claydon House Trust		NRA 21959 Verney
63	1859-62: letters (18) rel to Royal Buckinghamshire Hospital	Buckinghamshire Archives	AR 29/93, AR 50/93	See Annual Report 1993
64	1856-93: letters (19)	University of Kansas: Clendening History of Medicine Library		See NUC MS 80-420
65	1860-67: letters (copies)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 2027-28
66	c1850: fragment of mss corresp	Royal College of Nursing Archives	FN/1/35	See RCN accessions 2005
67	1856: letters to Dr Duncan Macpherson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 89232	See Annual Return 2017

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