Here we have a rare surviving piece of history in the form of an original signed letter by Florence Nightingale OM LGStJ (1820-1910)The affectionate and touching autograph letter in ink, written one side of a folded double sheet 8 x 10in (20.3 x 25.4cm) laid paper dated January 3rd 1878 from Florence Nightingale, London, to Mrs. Wildgoose: My dear Mrs. Wildgoose, I have not forgotten your wish for a Photograph of my dear father: & I send you one, the only one he would ever allow to be taken, standing in the little Ante-room Verandah at Embley. My sister sat with him. the other photograph contains them both. They were taken in the year before her death. Will you be so good as to Have them framed if you would like it, & let me know the amount, which I will gratefully forward to you. The day after tomorrow /Jan 5 he will have been gone 4 years. I have his watch, which stopped at the hour of his death, always by me, just as it stopped: & his spectacles with a white hair sticking in the...