Letter to Principle Medical Store Keeper 1856-04-07 Nightingale requests 6 bottles of tincture of myrrh in this letter, written one week after the Treaty of Paris brought an end to the Crimean War. Balaclava had two years earlier been the site of an indecisive battle which later provided the inspiration for Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade . Nightingale's work in the Crimea was the inspiration for Longfellow's Santa Filomena. Nightingale, Florence 1820-1910 Creator cre letter (correspondence) History of Nursing Nursing--History United Kingdom High Victorian text kumc-nightingale:16https://digital.lib.ku.edu/kumc-nightingale/16kumc.cl.fn18560407primed 1 p. paper electronic image/tiff reformatted digital Clendening History of Medicine Library University of Kansas Medical Center No known copyright kumc-nightingale_16_MODS MODS record generated from metadata captured by Clendening History of Medicine Library. Processed, with additional values/elements added by Digital Initiatives, KU Libraries. eng 2025-12