Letter to Mrs. Roe
1878-03-23

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London March 23/78
Madam
Pray accept my best thanks for your
very kind note which has been
forwarded to me here. Overwhelmed
with business as I am, London has
necessarily been my home for the last
21 years. I am sure that you bid
me God speed in all my objects:
the Training of Nurses which becomes
more & more essential every year:
the Sanitary reform in our Army & country
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generally:
the Sanitary development - & above all
the "Irrigation development", to prevent
famines, of India: poor millions of
our starving fellow subjects.
"I trust that you will do me the favour
of accepting a little pamphlet of mine
on this subject": which I enclose.
I shall have, I am sure, much pleasure in
looking at the little volume which
you so kindly send me.
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"Many thanks for your kind wishes
about my health: overworked as
I am, it is necessarily very bad, but
I thank God who still gives me work
to do for Him. I am indeed entirely
a prisoner to my room, except when
once a year I take my widowed
mother to Lea Hurst, now no longer
ours. I bid you 'Godspeed' in all
your undertakings for other's good": pray
believe me ever your faithful serv't
Florence Nightingale
Mrs. Roe