[Florence Nightingale and her charity the Nightingale Fund, established in 1855.] Printed Circular of facsimile of an ALS by Samuel Carter Hall, on the proposed dissolution of the Fund, with manuscript letter announcing a meeting of the trustees.

See the entries on Nightingale, Hall and Herbert in the Oxford DNB. The Nightingale Fund was established in the Crimea on 29 November 1855, to raise money for the training of nurses. As a result of discussions held at the time of this circular the money from the Fund was used to set up the first nursing school, the Nightingale Training School, at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1860. ONE: Printed circular in form of a facsimile ALS from ‘S. C. Hall / Hon. Sec.’ 1p, 8vo. On first leaf of a bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Twenty-four lines of text. The only genuine piece of Hall’s autograph is the address to ‘Col Jeb / &c &c’. Begins: ‘It is considered desirable that the Nightingale Fund should not be dissolved without conveying to M. and Madame Goldschmidt some mark of respect - in acknowledgement of their munificent contribution to that Fund.’ The contribution is stated to total £2422. It is proposed to present the Goldschmidts with ‘a marble bust of Her Majesty the Queen, to be executed by Mr Joseph Durham’. TWO: Manuscript letter. 1p, 12mo. In fair condition, with closed tear to fore-edge. Sent from the town house of the Fund’s chairman Lord Herbert of Lea.