NIGHTINGALE, Florence, nursing pioneer (1820-1910) Autograph letter signed to Dr Ryalls of the Social Sciences Association, asking permission to republish a pamphlet on Life or Death in India, read at the association's meeting the previous year. She points out that the Appendix constituting two-thirds of the publication is entirely new, and the paper itself enlarged and partly rewritten. On mourning paper, 2 sides, May 1874, with conjugal blank. With the original envelope, cover soiled.