A vast archive of letters from Florence Nightingale, many intensely personal and revealing about the woman usually seen as the shadowy Lady with the Lamp, is being brought together online and made freely accessible for the first time.
The originals of thousands of letters in which she discusses her life's work of medical reform, nursing training and hospital design – and also her anxieties, exhaustion, and the mysterious illness that kept her bedbound for years – are scattered in different institutions around the world, including the Florence Nightingale Museum, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Howard Gotlieb Centre at Boston University, which have now brought their collections
together online.
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