Footnote 33, Chapter 2, of the author's Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories, which Princeton University Press published in 1988. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Manuscripts quoted are from the Nightingale papers in the British Library (MS 43402, autobiography and other memoranda, 1845-i86o), and quotations are by permission of the Department of Manuscripts and the Henry Bonham-Carter trust.
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