Florence Nightingale Letters at the Clendening Library

Letter to Miss Lückes

Dated June 19, 1893

Page 3 of 11

the great thing to get the

Hospitals to improve

their training?

To stop that is what the danger of the draft

Charter lay in.

To forward that is what

we are all striving for

& what must be our strenuous

& Continual attempt, & of

those who come after us.

For we are only on the very

threshold of Nursing.

Into the future our work,

we may hope, will open a

better way.

We must not be surprised if the

R.B.N.A.³ do not perceive the

difference between the actual & the

draft Charter. But now. Let there

3. The Royal British Nurses' Association.

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the great thing to get the
Hospitals to improve
their training?
To stop that is what the danger of the draft
Charter lay in.
To forward that is what
we are all striving for
& what must be our strenuous
& Continual attempt, & of
those who come after us.
For we are only on the very
threshold of Nursing.
Into the future our work,
we may hope, will open a
better way.
We must not be surprised if the
R.B.N.A.³ do not perceive the
difference between the actual & the
draft Charter. But now. Let there