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Acknowledgments A cknowledgments are due first to the Henry Bonham Carter Will Trust for permission to publish Nightingale original manuscripts, and indeed for treating Nightingale material generally as being in the public domain. To the owners of Nightingale manuscripts thanks are due for their important role in conservation, for permitting scholarly access and for permitting copies to be made for this Collected Works. All sources actually used in this volume, from some 200 archives and private collections worldwide, are indicated at the appropriate place. The research process used to obtain these sources is described in Appendix E, Life and Family (1:862-73). To the University of Guelph thanks for the provision of an extra faculty office to house the project, computers, technical, research and administrative support, especially Dina Carter, Linda Bolton, Gerie McCauley, Millie MacQueen and Janice Vincent. Transcriptions were done by: Gwyneth Watkins, Lea Uotila, Linda Quirke and Kelly Thomas. Volunteer verifiers of texts were Cherry Ambrose, Linda Elliot, Joyce Donaldson, Jean Harding, Mary Parfitt, Jean Vale and Hazel Perkins. For assistance on proofreading of final texts thanks are due to: Dr Christiana de Groot and Rev Adel Compton (both of whom also assisted with biblical texts), Dr Margaret Griffin , Aideen Nicholson, Jan Newel-Lewis, Emily Jenner, Sandra Hunter and Arun Dhanota. Thanks to Lady Jocelyn Keith for information and assistance with sources on the New Zealand material; to Carol Helmstadter for advice on nursing matters, especially the identification of nurses; to Dr Charles Roland on medical history; and to Dr Albert Tucker on military history (and assistance on proof reading). Thanks to Adrian Allan, archivist, University of Liverpool, for answers to many inquiries, a tour of the old workhouse site and assistance with visuals. Thanks go to Dr Gérard Vallée and Dr Quirino diGiulio for assistance with translations. At the / vii Press thanks are due to Dr Brian Henderson, director; Carroll Klein, managing editor; Doreen Armbruster, typesetter; Leslie Macreadie and Penelope Grows, marketing; Steve Izma, production; and Elin Edwards, peer review. The copy editing was done by Frances Rooney. Acknowledgments for photographs and other illustrations are given in the illustrations section. In spite of the assistance of so many people undoubtedly errors remain, which are the responsibility of the editor. I would be grateful for notification of any errors, and for information on missing identifications . Corrections will be made in the electronic text and any other later print publication. Lynn McDonald Guelph, Ontario November 2003 viii / Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care ...