Letter from Dr Alexander Cumming at Scutari to Dr John Hall, Inspector General of Hospitals Army of the East, 4 May 1855.
Contains a comment on Florence Nightingale, ‘The Bubbul goes to the Crimea by the Robert Lowe tonight. I hear a report this morning that she is to have a title. Lord Palmerston wishes her to be made ... a Knight’s Companion’.
From a collection of correspondence received by Sir John Hall, Inspector General of Hospitals in Crimea, 1854-1856.
Associated with the Crimean War (1854-1856).