Chapter III

PUBLIC HEALTH MISSIONARY FOR INDIA
(1868-1872)

Miss Nightingale's "little Indian Department all to herself," a
main pre-occupation. Rest-cure at Malvern (Dec. 1867)--Visit to her
mother at Lea Hurst (July-Oct. 1868)--Miss Nightingale's movements
in following years. II. Mr. Jowett's plea for less official
drudgery, and more literary work--Her "Note on Pauperism" in
_Fraser's Magazine_--Interest in colonization--Interview with
Mr. Goschen. III. Health work for India: (1) correspondence and
interviews with Indian officials--Interviews with Lord Mayo--
Correspondence with Lord Napier (Madras)--"Special cholera
inquiry." IV. An episode: Miss Nightingale's intervention to save
the Army Sanitary Commission and the Army Medical School from being
retrenched out of existence--Statistical evidence of sanitary
reform. V. Interviews with Lord Napier of Magdala--Further
correspondence with Lord Mayo--Other interviews and correspondence.
VI. Health work for India: (2) acquaintance and correspondence
with native Indian gentlemen--Sanitary appeal to village elders.
VII. Health work for India: (3) work in connection with the Sanitary
Department at the India Office--Contributions to and revision of
the Indian Health Annual. VIII. Ten years' progress: _How some
People have Lived, not Died, in India_--How much, and yet how
little! 161

CHAPTER IV
ADVISER-GENERAL ON HOSPITALS AND NURSING
(1868-1872)

Miss Nightingale as a central department relating to hospitals and
nurses. Criticism of hospital plans--"Suggestions" for nursing
organization in public institutions. II. Visits on such subjects
from great personages--Interviews and correspondence with the Crown
Princess of Prussia. III. Supervision of the Nightingale Training
School--Personal influence--Miss Nightingale's reception of lady
superintendents and nurses going out from the School to other
posts. IV. Closing of the Midwifery School at King's College
Hospital--Miss Nightingale's _Notes on Lying-in Institutions_.
V. The Franco-German War--Miss Nightingale and the "National
Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded"--Communications with the
Crown Princess of Germany--Red Cross Societies. VI. Miss
Nightingale's continued ill-health--Dr. Sutherland's constant help 185

PART VII

WORK OF LATER YEARS (1872-1910)

CHAPTER I
"OUT OF OFFICE." LITERARY WORK
(1872-1874)

Miss Nightingale's thought of entering St. Thomas's Hospital (1872)
--Dissuaded by Mr. Jowett--"This year I go out of office"--Meaning
of her statement--Her connection with the War Office closed--Lord
Northbrook did not come to her. II. Unsettlement and depression--
Mr. Jowett's plea for literary work--Mr. Mill's plea that she
should speak out recalled. III. Articles in _Fraser's Magazine_
(1873): embodying some of her _Suggestions for Thought_--Froude's
and Carlyle's opinions of the articles--Miss Nightingale and her
critics. IV. Death of Mr. Mill--Appreciation of him by Miss
Nightingale. V. Theological essays written at Mr. Jowett's
suggestion--Discussions with him--Contributions to the revised
edition of his _Plato_--Suggestions for his sermons--Collaboration
in _The Children's Bible_--Remarks on such literary work 211

CHAPTER II
THE MYSTICAL WAY

Miss Nightingale's fondness for Catholic books of devotion--Idea of
making a selection--Mr. Jowett's views of mysticism. II. Miss
Nightingale's Preface to her _Notes from Devotional Authors of the
Middle Ages_. III. Interruption of work by the death of her father
(1874)--His character--Death of Mrs. Bracebridge: Miss
Nightingale's tributes to her and her husband--Family worries.
IV. Her book on the _Mystics_ never finished--Her own mystical life
--Her private meditations--The path to perfection 231