From:Florence Nightingale Museum

Name/TitleFlorence Nightingale - Crimea Broadsheets

About this objectAlbum with fourteen sheets of poetry commemorating Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War.

0507.1: song: "The Nightingale in the East", anon, printed by Ryle & Co., Printers, 2 & 3, Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London, n.d. (Printed on thin paper with an engraving of a nurse bringing food to a patient. The poem was set to the tune of "The Cottage and Water Mill").

0507.2: as above

0507.3: as above but without title and illustration

0507.4: poem: "Naval and Military Intelligence", anon & printer not known, n.d. (about FN's journey to the Crimea on the Vectis")

0507.5: poem: "Florence Nightingale", by "E.A", n.d.

0507.6: poem: "War Music", by "E.E", re-printed from "The Spectator", anon, n.d. (Mentions FN "she champion of her nation's cause")

0507.7: poem: untitled manuscript, [a transcript of a poem printed by Ryle & Co, Seven Dials, London], anon, n.d.

0507.8: poem: "The Return of Florence Nightingale", by Eliza Craven Green, St John's Place, Leeds, 1856. Printed by P. Curphey, Manx Sun Office, Douglas.

0507.9: as .3 above

0507.10: poem: "Telegraph from the Crimea: Miss Nightingale Dangerously Ill", anon & printer not known, n.d.

0507.11: song: "A portion of the Song 'The Pilot That Weathered the Storm,' Applied to Miss Florence Nightingale" [by an old member of the Pitt Club], n.d.

0507.12: poem: untitled, anon, February 1855, p.3 (Does not mention FN by name - "A gentle woman stood")

0507.13: song: "Hurrah! for the Alliance!" & "The Fall of Sebastopol!", anon, printed by Ryle & Co. 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Seven Dials, London, n.d.

0507.14: song: "Welcome to Miss Nightingale", anon, printed by Dover, 18 Great St Andrew Street, Bloomsbury, n.d. (illustrated with a woodcut of a woman reclining under a tree)

Date Madec1850s

Period19th Century

Medium and MaterialsCloth, paper

Measurements1.0 x 21.3 x 28.0cm

Object TypeScrapbook

Object number0507

Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved