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| "Many thanks for your kind wishes | |
| about my health: overworked as | |
| I am, it is necessarily very bad, but | |
| I thank God who still gives me work | |
| to do for Him. I am indeed entirely | |
| a prisoner to my room, except when | |
| once a year I take my widowed | |
| mother to Lea Hurst 1, now no longer | |
| ours. I bid you 'Godspeed' in all | |
| your undertakings for other's good": pray | |
| believe me ever your faithful serv't | |
| Florence Nightingale | |
| Mrs. Roe |
1. Lea Hurst was the Nightingale family home in Derbyshire.
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