Item Information
Title
Letter to William Clark: 5 October 1872, page 8
Subject
Sanitary Engineering, Clark, William (1821-1880), India
Creator
Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)
Date
5 October 1872
Rights
https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Language
English
Type
Text - scan of original letter
Identifier
https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/nightingale/
Text
& trust to surface washing –
provided there be fall enough –
by the rain.
But I must ask your pardon
for these very elementary
remarks. My knowledge
of the subject being really
as superficial as that of
Nursing would be by a
person who had never nursed
a real live Patient.
My only object in troubling
you thus: is l. to acknowledge
your clear & valuable letter.
2. to ask whether it is possible
to lay down a principle which
shall be universally applicable
3. & chiefly – to wish you
again Godspeed & again
provided there be fall enough –
by the rain.
But I must ask your pardon
for these very elementary
remarks. My knowledge
of the subject being really
as superficial as that of
Nursing would be by a
person who had never nursed
a real live Patient.
My only object in troubling
you thus: is l. to acknowledge
your clear & valuable letter.
2. to ask whether it is possible
to lay down a principle which
shall be universally applicable
3. & chiefly – to wish you
again Godspeed & again