Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Florence Nightingale letter found at Auckland library

New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand

A letter from Florence Nightingale to George Grey before he took up a second term as Governor of New Zealand is among an exhibition of "Treasures" from the special collections at Auckland City Library.

"God bless you," she tells Grey while he was Governor of Cape Colony in South Africa. "You will do a noble work in New Zealand." . . . more

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