General Correspondence, 1863-1873

 
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Item ff.153-283
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Correspondents include Lady Dowling, Capt. W. Mayne, A. Roberts (Sydney), E. Deas Thomson (Sydney), J. Manning (Sydney), Mary Barker (Sydney), Haldane Turriff (Sydney), W.C. Windeyer (Sydney).

The letters deal with the selection of nurses for Australia, conditions at the Sydney Infirmary, criticisms by Nightingale of plans for a new building, plans for a children's hospital in Sydney, arrival of Lucy Osburn and her party in 1868, attempted assassination of Duke of Edinburgh, establishment of Nightingale Wing of Infirmary, relations between sisters and medical officers, difficulties of Osburn, criticisms of Osburn by A. Roberts to Royal Commission on Public Charities (1873), alleged criticisms of Osburn by Nightingale, Prince Alfred Hospital.

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