Excerpt from Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses: A Selection From Miss. Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital Between 1872 and 1900 Miss Nightingale used, when she was able, to send an annual letter or address to the probationer-nurses of the Nightin gale School at St. Thomas' Hospital, and the nurses who have been trained there.1 These addresses were usually read aloud by Sir Harry Verney, the chairman of the Nightingale Fund, In the presence of the probationers and nurses, and a printed copy or a lithographed facsimile of the manuscript was given to each of the nurses present, for private use only. A few also were written for the Nightingale Nurses serving in Edinburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.