Letter to Lt. Colonel George Higginson
1857-08-11

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30 Old Burlington St.
London W
August 11/57
Dear Sir
I am encouraged to
ask you to do one a
favor by having had the
honor of meeting you at
the Hospital of the
Grenadier Guards - altho'
I fear you will hardly
recollect it.
I was so very
much pleased with
the admirable Model
Lodging House which
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you have made for the
Guards that I am
most desirous of
doing all in my power
to introduce something
like it for our
"miserable" Line -
A recommendation
to that effect has been
put into the Report
of the Royal Comission
now sitting upon the
Sanitary Regulations
of the Army, but
struck out, because it
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was uncertain whether
it would "pay".
Now, if you would
be so very good as to
tell me what percentage
of interest the Guards'
Lodging House brings in,
it would materially assist
our purpose.
I beg you will be so
kind as to employ the
small sum I take the
liberty of enclosing in
any way that you may
think best for the
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Lodging House you have
so magnificently
provided - the only
deficiency in which
appeared to me to be
the washing and drying
places.
Any accounts that
you would furnish us
with of the Expenditure,
Receipts and Management
of your Lodging House
would be most valuable
to us.
Also, if you would
tell me who arranged the
camp of the Guards during
the winter of '55-'56 before
Sevastopol - It was a "Model
Lodging House" too - yours very
faithfully Florence Nightingale
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Letter from Miss Nightingale about V. L. H.
Lt. Colonel Higginson
Grenadier Guards
Horse Guards