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Convent of Mercy Kinsale 1 Ukoth: Uk and Irish Archives other than the British Library, Wellcome, LMA, county record offices, Scotland and oxford, 1217 pages Bold numbers in square brackets indicate the volume and page number in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale where the item appears. Larger collections Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, indicated RA/PP/Vic Claydon House, bundles Wantage Papers, Red Cross Archive, indicated D/Wan/ Convent of Mercy, Bermondsey, 16 letters Convent of Mercy, Birmingham, 9 letters Convent of Mercy, Kinsale, 2 letters National Archives, Kew, 10 letters Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Lea Hurst RSAS Royal College of Physicians of London, 7 items, RCPL Royal Hospital for Incurables, 7 letters, indicated RHI University of Wales, Bangor, 5 letters Durham University, 5 letters University of London, 5 letters King’s College, London University College, London, UCL Galton University College, London, UCL Chadwick Private Collection of Farr family, Teagle 17 letters Private Collection, Bowman family Cambridge University, Fitzwilliam Museum Manchester University, John Rylands Library, Rylands Collections under 5 letters National Library of Ireland, 4 letters University of Birmingham, Ubirm, 4 letters Trinity College, Cambridge, TCC, 3 letters St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives, 3 letters University of Southampton, 3 letters British Library of Pol and Ec Sc, 2 letters, indicated BLPES Girton College, Cambridge, 2 letters Royal Holloway, University of London, 2 items St Mary’s Hospital, London, 2 letters Victoria and Albert Museum, 1 letter Leeds Univerity, Brotherton Library, 2 letters Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 letters Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, RCSE, 2 items Bristol Archives, 2 letters Liverpool Medical Institution, 2 letters Royal Institute of British Architects, 1 letter Convent of Mercy Kinsale 2 Leicester Royal Infirmary, 1 letter Royal Free Hospital Archives, 1 letter Westminster Hospital, 1 letter Radcliffe Infirmary, 1 letter Radcliffe Guild of Nurses, 1 letter Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1 letter Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1 letter Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, 1 letter Royal Society of Medicine, 1 letter Royal College of General Practitioners, 2 letters National War Museum of Scotland, 1 letter Children’s Hospital, Gt. Ormond St, 1 letter University of Ulster, 1 letter Minet Library, Lambeth, 1 letter Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Pendlebury City of Westminster Archives, 1 letter Grosvenor Chapel, 1 letter Miscellaneous private collections and internet Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, paper copies RA PP/Vic/1859/784 signed letter, 2ff, pen 30 Old Burlington St W March 7/59 [16:778-79] Dear Sir Charles Phipps Will you pardon me (Florence Nightingale) for presuming on your old kindness to me to ask you a question? A bill is before the House of Commons this week for carrying a Railway from the S.E. Station to Charing Convent of Mercy Kinsale 3 Cross. The line passes so close to the North wing of St. Thomas’s Hospital as to render it useless - The Hospital will thus be reduced to its old dimensions & to the buildings which were condemned by the Medical Officers as unfit, so far back as 1832. The Hospital is one of our two Royal Hospitals (upon Edward VI’s foundation) and the Queen is Visitor. The Prince Consort is also a Governor – I have reason to know that a word from his Royal Highness to Mr. Baggallay, the Treasurer, would determine the latter. And from the Prince Consort’s well= known interest in all Convent of Mercy Kinsale 4 questions affecting the welfare of the people, it has occurred to me to ask you whether it would be proper to bring the matter to His Royal Highness’s cognizance. If the Railway people would purchase the whole site of the Hospital, not only would a great injury be saved but a great benefit gained For the Hospital might then be rebuilt (bodily) in the neigh= bourhood of London – I have such ample experience of the injury inflicted on the sick poor by the foul air of London that I know that to move St. Thomas’s (Medical School & Hospital) out of the crowded London Bridge district into the suburbs would be a public boon. Black heath would be a very accessible place & has great facilities by rail= way - A Surgical ward for accidents is all that would be necessary on the present site Convent of Mercy Kinsale 5 of St. Thomas’s. And all the other sick might be taken by rail way to Blackheath (or some other accessible Convent of Mercy Kinsale 6 suburb) with the greatest advan= tage to the sick – Unfortunately, in all such arrangements, the sick are generally the least considered. Pray forgive me for being troublesome [end 16:779] {in another hand:} Signed Florence Nightingale Autograph given To Mrs. Farquherson RA PP/Vic/1859/784 signed letter, 4ff, pen 30 Old Burlington St W March 10/59 [16:779] Dear Sir Charles Phipps I could not for one moment have intended to indicate that the Prince Consort should in any way interfere with a Railway Bill. The facts about St. Thomas’s Hospital had come to me privately, & knowing His Royal Highness’s great interest in all matters affecting the welfare of the people, it occurred to me that it might not be improper in me simply to state to you the facts of the case - This was really all I intended Convent of Mercy Kinsale 7 to do - leaving it entirely in the hands of His Royal Highness. Convent of Mercy Kinsale 8 Believe me to be dear Sir Charles Phipps Yours faithfully & obliged Florence Nightingale It appeared to me impertinent to indicate a course for the Prince Consort’s consideration. But as you add “I do “not understand “exactly what you “think the Prince “might do” -- might I to you in private state the following facts? On Monday the Railway bill goes before the Committee -- of which the Chairman, Mr. Ingham, is well disposed to view the matter in the same light we do – i.e. to say that the Railway people must buy all the site or nonee If, (after * this Bill has passed, if it does pass,) it were considered that the removal of a Royal Hospital like St. Thomas’s, the second only in antiquity & in usefulness in London, were an event of sufficient public importance for the Prince to take the Chair at a Meeting of the Directors of the Hospital, his Convent of Mercy Kinsale 9 ------------------------------------- * should it be improper to do it before Convent of Mercy Kinsale 10 word would be enough, were he to propose that such an opportu= nity should not be lost for removing the Hospital to a healthy site in the neighbourhood and re= erecting it upon the best plan. [There are not wanting jobbers even in Royal Hospitals –- and two sites are mentioned which Governors, & cousins, uncles & brothers= in= law of Governors, who want to sell, have proposed - where the Hospital would be far worse off than it is where it is now] But, if it is not an occasion for the Prince to appear as Chairman, a message from him to the Treasurer, of the Hospital a Mr. Baggallay, would, I am informed, have the desired effect, should the Prince see the matter in this light. I will, not take up your time with any apology for this long statement – [end] F. Nightingale RA PP/Vic/1860/6403 letter from Alfred Tritton St. Thomas’s Convent of Mercy Kinsale 11 Hospital Treasurer’s Clerk to Sir, 20 Dec 1860, 1f-v, printed and handwritten note re: FN Convent of Mercy Kinsale 12 RA PP/Vic/1860/6403 [5:416-17] signed letter, 4ff, pen 30 Old Burlington St. London W. Dec 21/60 Dear Sir Charles Phipps I should not venture to trouble you, were it not that the health of some thousands of Her Majesty’s subjects depends upon the success of this application. I write in great anxiety about an occurrence regarding St. Thomas’s Hospital, which arose only this morning. It is, as you are aware, a Royal foundation –- and The Prince Consort is a Governor. The Prince was so good as to send for Mr. Baggallay, the Treasurer, upon this same matter, to Buckingham Palace. And I hope that you remember how kind you were in enduring a correspondence from me about it. By the decision of the Ho: of Lords, last July twelvemonth, the Charing Cross Railway can take a corner of garden ground belonging to St. Thomas’s, within 8 feet of the North wing wards, at a valuation. This is ruin to the Hospital. And, I understand, could not be done in the case of private property, carrying on a business. Any Company would be compelled to take the whole – Convent of Mercy Kinsale 13 The Directors of the Railway in question yesterday sent a notice to the Hospital to the effect that, intending to proceed with the Railway, they must know the Governor’s decision within 21 days. The Treasurer has called a special meeting of the Grand Committee for tomorrow morning, and a General Court of Governors for Monday NEXT, (a general holiday!) The want of consideration of this proceeding, I am told, is unprecedented – as well as the shortness of the time given. -- especially at Christmas time, when every body is out of town. I need hardly say to you that if The Prince would write to Mr. Baggallay, the Treasurer, calling upon him & the Governors to take an enlightened view of the subject, as regards the following consideration, it would probably make the whole difference viz. there are among the Governors some whose interest leads them to throw away the finest opportunity ever offered of obtaining for the present site a very much larger sum than would rebuild St.

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