NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) 'Our Indian Stewardship', [in] The Nineteenth Century. A Monthly Review, ...

NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) 'Our Indian Stewardship', [in] The Nineteenth Century. A Monthly Review, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the upper cover to 'Professor [J.R.] Seeley with Florence Nightingale's grateful & earnest admiration for his 'Expansion of England', especially the 'India'', Nightingale's article on pp.329-338, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at beginning, various advertisements on coloured papers at end, publisher's grey-blue printed wrappers, lower wrapper detached, losses to spine, 8vo, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883 Footnotes: A presentation copy of Florence Nightingale's article on Britain's role in India, warmly inscribed to the historian John Robert Seeley, author of The Expansion of England, which she considered 'so unspeakably important... [and in which she saw] a whole new vista for the education of Civil Service candidates opening out of them' (Deborah Wormell, Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History, C.U.P., 1980, p.94). In her article, published in the same year as Seeley's, Nightingale 'argued for a royal commission to investigate the British administration of India and defended the controversial bill drafted by Courtenay Ilbert empowering Indian magistrates to exercise jurisdiction over Europeans (ODNB). In 1858 Nightingale first took an interest in the sanitary state of the army in India, after which she continued to write on India, and work on sanitation within the country until the 1890s. Provenance: J.R. Seeley (1834–1895), presentation inscription from Nightingale. A photographic carte-de-visite portrait of Seeley by Elliot & Fry is included with the lot. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing