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Title: The life of Florence Nightingale
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Nurses
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited, St. Martin's Street
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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eet. MissNightingale understood that some kindness had been doneto her, but hardly more. Too kind, too kind, she said.On March 16, 1908, the Freedom of the City of London wasconferred upon her—hitherto conferred on only one woman.Lady Burdett-Coutts. Miss Nightingale was able withgreat difficulty to sign from her bed her initials upon theCitys roll of honour, but it is doubtful if she understoodwhat she was being asked to sign. Perhaps it was betterso. In the years of her strength she had ever a dread anda misgiving of the worlds praises. In the days of herweakness, when power of work in this world had gone fromher, she would have regarded such honours, had she under-stood them, as coming too late. She sought no glory-crownbut the opportunity of doing New Work. But the prizes of the world may be of real value to othersthan those who receive them. The signal honour conferredby the Crown upon Miss Nightingale had the effect of call-ing fresh attention to her work and her example. Not,
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cH. IX A MESSAGE FROM THE FAR EAST 419 indeed, that these depended on adventitious aids to remem-brance. To some men and women whose years are manyit is fated that they should outhve their fame. It was notso with Miss Nightingale. To her it was given to becomein her lifetime a tradition and almost an institution ; andthe longer she lived, the greater, the more widespread washer fame. Already on her 8oth birthday (1900), MissNightingale had been the recipient of congratulations fromQueens and Royal Highnesses, from schools and societies,and from nurses and nursing associations in all parts of theworld. In the United States the name of Florence Nightin-gale was even more widely known and loved than in GreatBritain, and already in 1895 the American Ambassador(Mr. Bayard) had begged the honour of an interview inorder to tell her how much revered she is in the UnitedStates. Perhaps the congratulations which might havepleased Miss Nightingale most—for she loved efficiencyand had read The

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