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Acknowledgments A cknowledgments are due to a large number of individuals and organizations for assistance on this volume, and for assistance at all stages in the Collected Works project. First of all acknowledgments 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 important role in conservation, for permitting scholarly access and for permitting copies to be made for this Collected Works. Many people worked on the preparation of the texts, many as volunteers . Thanks are due to transcribers Gwyneth Watkins and Victoria Rea; verifiers of texts and assistance with proofreading, Patricia Warwick , Antonia Butler, Mary Boyce and Arun Dhanota. Thanks to Patricia Warwick for assistance with visuals and technical support. Thanks to biographer Mark Bostridge for sharing his archival research notes and to Dr Maria Luddy for Convent of Mercy materials. Archivists and librarians around the world provided skilled assistance, often beyond the call of duty. New material appeared by e-mail thanks to alert archivists and researchers in several countries. Author Hugh Small kindly supplied scans from his private collection of Nightingale material. At Wilfrid Laurier University Press thanks are due to Dr Brian Henderson , director; Rob Kohlmeier, managing editor; Heather Blain-Yanke, production manager; Doreen Armbruster, typesetter; Leslie Macreadie and Penelope Grows, marketing; Lisa Quinn, peer review; and Catharine Bonas-Taylor and Steve Izma, technical support. Thanks are due to the anonymous peer reviewers for helpful comments. The copy editing was done by Kristen Peterson Chew. Acknowledgments for photographs and other illustrations are given where they appear. In spite of the assistance of so many people errors undoubtedly remain, which are the responsibility of the editor. We would be grateful for notification of any errors, and for information on missing identifications. Corrections will be made in the electronic text and any later print publications. / vii Collage of stamps commemorating Nightingale’s Crimean War work. Reproductions courtesy of Dr Gwen Prout. viii / Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War ...

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