CHAPTER VI. New Masters

NEW MASTERS (1866)

Public events in 1866 in relation to Miss Nightingale's work. Letters on those events. II. The story of a lost dispatch. Sir John Lawrence's scheme for sanitary organization in India--Miss Nightingale's anxiety to have it revised before the Liberal Government fell--The Dispatch lost at the India Office: found by Lord Ripon--His reply to it drafted, when the government fell. III. Miss Nightingale's vexation--Dr. Sutherland's absence--Visit from Lord Napier on his appointment to the governorship of Madras. IV. The Conservative Government--Miss Nightingale's desire to come in touch with the new ministers--Correspondence with Lord Cranborne (India Office) and Mr. Gathorne Hardy (Poor Law Board). V. The Austro-Prussian War--Miss Nightingale and war-nursing-- Correspondence with the Princess Alice and the Crown Princess of Prussia. VI. A holiday at Embley with her mother--Private meditations 104