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Acknowledgments A cknowledgments are due 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 role in conservation, for permitting scholarly access and for permitting copies to be made for this Collected Works. Thanks are due to the Florence Nightingale Museum Trust for permission to reproduce Nightingale’s Bible. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of colleagues who read and commented on an earlier version of this introduction: Dr Gérard Vallée, Professor Emeritus, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University; Barbara Dossey, RN; Dr Mary Sullivan, RSM, Department of English, Rochester Institute of Technology. On the biblical annotation enormous thanks are due to Dr Gérard Vallée on the handling of the German texts and their translation, as well as for his assistance on Latin and French translations. I am greatly indebted also to Dr Quirino DiGiulio, Toronto, for assistance on Italian and Latin texts. Thanks to Dr Raymond Van Leeuwen, Eastern College, Pennsylvania, for assistance on Hebrew texts, and to Dr Maria Subtelny, University of Toronto, on Persian mythology; to the Rev Dr Gailand MacQueen, Huntingdon College, Sudbury, for assistance both with proofreading and on Hebrew texts; and to Dr Phyllis Airhart, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, for an identification and advice. Transcribers were Kim Cowan, Victoria Rea and Maria Schneidersmann . Dr Margaret Griffin, project manager for the Collected Works, supervised the transcription of manuscripts. For proofreading assistance thanks are due to Aideen Nicholson, Cherry Ambrose and Sandra Hunter, for copy editing Frances Rooney, for identification of texts the Rev Canon Alex Whitehead, Durham, Leslie Mann, Toronto, and Bart Peeren, Netherlands. / ix At the Press thanks are due to Dr Brian Henderson, director; Sandra Woolfrey, former director; Carroll Klein, managing editor; Doreen Armbruster, typesetter; Leslie Macredie and Penelope Grows, marketing ; Steve Izma, production. Acknowledgments for photographs are noted in the illustrations section. For technical and administrative support thanks are due to my colleagues and the staff at the University of Guelph. 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 publication. Lynn McDonald October 2001 x / Florence Nightingale’s Spiritual Journey ...

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