LETTER FROM ONE OF THE LADIES WHO HELPED FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE IN SCUTARI BLACKWOOD (Lady Alicia, 1818-1913, Painter and Nurse)

Autograph Letter Signed to "Richard & Emily" telling them that "while wrapping up the enclosed - I must express as well as I can my very sincere thanks for all your kind attentions to me & all the love you have shown me which has made my little sojourn here so very happy - but more especially do I desire to thank Our Heavenly Father for all the spiritual communion & fellowship which I have truly enjoyed - & which if it pleases Him to spare me I shall hope again to enjoy in the Spring after a visit from yourselves to me D.V. in January, when I trust I may reciprocate some of that love & affection which you have shown me & which has made me so happy. May Our dear Lord & Saviour ever watch over you & bless you & make you both a blessing to the sheep committed to your care - & may He guide us all, in which I desire with kindest love to include yr dear Aunt to follow Him until He lead us into those Heavenly Mansions which He is gone to prepare for His redeemed ...", 3 sides 8vo., together with an original photo of the old lady sitting on a bench in a garden, 3¼" x 2¼", 'Upstairs', Kinneridge, 14th September

Lady Alicia was the daughter of George Frederick Augustus Lambart, Viscount Kilcoursie (1789–1828) and Sarah Coppin, she was married to the Rev. James Stevenson Blackwood (1805–1882). As she recounts in A Narrative of Personal Experiences & Impressions during a Residence on the Bosphorus throughout the Crimean War (1881), Lady Alicia Blackwood and her husband "were deeply moved to go out" after hearing of "the battle of Inkerman, that terribly hard-fought struggle". Dr. Blackwood obtained a chaplaincy to the forces; Lady Alicia and two young women friends accompanied him, determined to find some way to help. Lady Alicia applied to Florence Nightingale at Scutari in December 1854.

Item Date:  1898

Stock No:  41753      £275

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