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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments 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. Thanks to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for permission to use material from the Royal Archives. All sources actually used in this volume, from a total of over 150 archives and private collections world wide, are indicated at the apropriate place. To the University of Guelph thanks for the provision of an extra faculty office to house the project, computers, technical, research and administrative support. Transcriptions were done by: Gwyneth Watkins, Kelly Thomas, Lea Uotila, Victoria Rea, Tara Beaton, Daniel Phelan and Pamela Teitelbaum. Volunteer verifiers of texts were: Gwyneth Watkins, Joan Enns, Barbara Brooks, Linda Elliot, Cherry Ambrose and Lois Thompson; volunteers assisting me with proofreading: Cherry Ambrose, Aideen Nicholson and Sandra Hunter. Dr Margaret Griffin as project manager oversaw transcriptions and research. Thanks to Dr Gérard Vallée and Dr Quirino DiGiulio for assistance with translations , and to Dr Vallée (again) and to Lesley Mann for literary identifications and assistance on visuals. Thanks to Rev Canon Alex Whitehead for research at the University of York on Frederick Verney and to Jennifer Bobrowski for checking on sources. 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; 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. / ix Thanks to Dr Hannah Gay, Simon Fraser University, for reading the manuscript and giving advice on history of science questions; to Dr Albert Tucker, Professor Emeritus, Glendon College, for proofreading and advice on military history; and to Dr Christiana DeGroot for proofreading and advice on biblical citations. In spite of the assistance of so many people errors undoubtedly remain, which are the responsibility of the editor. I would be grateful for notification of any errors, and for information on missing identifications . Corrections and additions will be made in the electronic text and any other later publication. Lynn McDonald Guelph, Ontario January 2003 x / Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics ...

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