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NIGHTINGALE TALKING ABOUT A LETTER SHE HAS RECEIVED FROM QUETELET
NIGHTINGALE
(Florence, 1820-1910, Nurse and Hospital Reformer)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'F. Nightingale' with the recipient's name crossed out
saying that she has had a most kind & amiable letter from our great Master (Quetelet) almost without an address. I have answered according to your behest, begging, entreating, recommending him in the strongest terms to set about his second Edit with less than an hour's delay. I have reminded him that you asked him at St Petersburg. I return yours with many thanks, in haste..., 1 side 8vo., on mourning paper, 35 South St. W, 8th November
Item Date: 1872
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Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874, Belgian Astronomer, Mathematician, Statistician and Sociologist) had a significant influence on Florence Nightingale who shared with him a religious view of statistics which saw understanding statistics as revealing the work of God in addition to statistics being a force of good administration. Nightingale met Quetelet in person at the 1860 International Statistical Congress in London, and they corresponded for years afterwards.
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