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- Creator
- Nightingale, Hannah Elizabeth
- Call number
- MssCol 2251
- Physical description
- .08 linear feet (1 v.)
- Preferred Citation
- Hannah Elizabeth Nightingale papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Hannah Elizabeth Nightingale, was the wife of Captain Thomas H. Nightingale of the British Royal Navy, who was stationed in South Africa in the 1850s. Nightingale's manuscript diary, 1850-1851, written at Fort Peddie, Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, records events and conditions in the area, including the Kaffir uprisings during the period.
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NIghtingale, Ida E, 1963Key terms
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Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328