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Florence Nightingale correspondence

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910

These are original handwritten letters to and from Florence Nightingale, famous for being a pioneer English nurse. Topics include her health, her work and her interests in India and its irrigation systems, her mother's death, her correspondents' work and affairs (particularly Mr. Burton's children's institute), and other topics. Correspondents include, among others, Colonel James Fife, Alice Hepworth, F. H. Butler, and Mr. Burton. Also amongst the materials are dried flowers gathered from Cathcart's Hill in the Crimea. This correspondence is part of the historic psychiatry material in the Menninger Archives.

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Emily Haines Tucker Harrison

These two photographs show Emily Haines Tucker Harrison, (1820-1907), a Civil War nurse and Kansas pioneer. Emily a native of Ohio enlisted in the Civil War after the death of her first husband as a army nurse. She was stationed at Camp Charles and Galopolis, Ohio. During the war she risked her life carrying messages for union troops across enemy lines. After the war she came to Kansas, in 1866, and filed a claim on her homestead in the Saline Valley west of Culver, Kansas in Ottawa County. Due to the conflicts with Native Americans in the area, Emily was driven off the homestead, but would return from time to time to take care of the land. In the remaining years of her life, she made her home at the Bickerdyke home in Ellsworth, Kansas. On August 10, 1907 she passed away at the age of eighty-seven.

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