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

Autograph Inscription Signed and dated on the frontispiece for "The Epistle to the Hebrews" "An Exposition by Adolph Saphir", inscribed to "The Revd Richard Earle with the affectionate regards of Lady A. Blackwood, Boxmoor, 27th October 1894", together with a newspaper cutting illustration of the house, 1 side 8vo., Boxmoor, 27th October

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:  1894

Stock No:  41754      £150

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