CHAPTER XXV

_AT EVENTIDE_

Miss Nightingale To-day--Her Interest in Passing Events--Recent Letter to Derbyshire Nurses--Celebrates Eighty-fourth Birthday--King confers Dignity of a Lady of Grace--Appointed by King Edward VII. to the Order of Merit--Letter from the German Emperor--Elected to the Honorary Freedom of the City of London--Summary of her Noble Life In Memoriam 338

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MISS NIGHTINGALE (_From a photograph_) _Frontispiece_

PAGE LEA HURST, DERBYSHIRE 16

EMBLEY PARK, HAMPSHIRE 32

MISS NIGHTINGALE (_From a drawing_) 48

PASTOR FLIEDNER 55

MISS NIGHTINGALE (_From a bust at Claydon_) 61

SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL 80

SIDNEY, LORD HERBERT OF LEA 96

MR. _PUNCH’S_ CARTOON OF “THE LADY-BIRDS” 113

THE BARRACK HOSPITAL AT SCUTARI 125

BOULOGNE FISHERWOMEN CARRYING THE LUGGAGE OF MISS NIGHTINGALE AND HER NURSES 128

THE LADY-IN-CHIEF IN HER QUARTERS AT THE BARRACK HOSPITAL 133

MISS NIGHTINGALE IN THE HOSPITAL AT SCUTARI 144

MISS NIGHTINGALE AND THE DYING SOLDIER--A SCENE AT SCUTARI HOSPITAL WITNESSED BY M. SOYER 176

LADY HERBERT OF LEA 192

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AS A GIRL 208

THE NIGHTINGALE JEWEL 237

THE CARRIAGE USED BY MISS NIGHTINGALE IN THE CRIMEA 240

MISS NIGHTINGALE AFTER HER RETURN FROM THE CRIMEA 272

PARTHENOPE, LADY VERNEY 288

MRS. DACRE CRAVEN (_née_ FLORENCE LEES) 304

CLAYDON HOUSE, THE SEAT OF SIR EDMUND VERNEY, WHERE THE “FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE” ROOMS ARE PRESERVED 320

SPECIMEN OF MISS NIGHTINGALE’S HANDWRITING 335

MISS NIGHTINGALE’S OLD ROOM AT CLAYDON 336

MISS NIGHTINGALE 340

THE LIFE OF

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE