Correspondence file
- Reference:GB 1199 RCN1/1/1918/3
- Dates of Creation:1918
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- Physical Description:0.01m
Scope and Content
General College business including: British Hospitals Association; Voluntary Hospital and Health Bill; draft Nurses Bill; Nation's Fund for Nurses rationale; Poor Law officers; Registration Bill (with BMA); nurses' salaries (1 letter only); fundraising including the Cowdray connection with the College's Tribute Fund; West Derby Union; British Women's Hospitals Committee.
folder includes:
Letter dated 27 Dec 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Sir Charles Russell concerning the number of laymen signatories on the articles and memorandum of association of the College;
Letter dated 28 Dec 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Miss Seymour Yapp concerning a leaflet being circulated about the aims of the Nations Fund for Nurses by its' opponents (copy enclosed);
Letter dated 24 July 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Queen Alexandra concerning the aims of the Tribute Fund of the Nations Fund for Nurses;
Letter dated 11 Jan 1919 from Sir Arthur Stanley to the Hon Mrs Tennant asking her to be chair of a committee being appointed to look into nurses salaries;
Letter dated 22 Nov 1918 from Gertrude Vaughan of the Nursing Times to Sir Arthur Stanley asking him about proposed trips to the continent to view post war nursing conditions;
The British Hospitals Association: Report of the Council for the Year 1918;
Letter dated 4 June 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Queen Alexandra asking for her patronage in the appeal for the Tribute Fund, and listing the members of the associated committee;
Letter dated 15 May 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Lady Pauline Arnott concerning a proposed trip to Dublin, his failure to gain the patronage of Queen Alexandra and Princess Patricia, and a reference to prisoners;
Draft Nurses Registration Bill;
Letter dated 11 Oct 1918 from Lady Feodore Gleichen to Sir Arthur Stanley concerning her designs for nurses badges;
Letter dated 7 Aug 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Sir Berkeley Moynihan concerning unsuccessful attempts to obtain royal patronage for the College of Nursing due to the college being percived as controversial by "the people at Buckingham Palace";
Letter dated 5 Oct 1918 from Sir Arthur Stanley to Miss MacNie congratulating her on successful fund raising activities in south and west Ireland and recommending that further fund raising be carried out in Ulster and the North;
Letter dated 20 Aug 1918 from Ruth E Darbyshire to Miss Rundle recommending that the case for the College of Nursing be made in The Nursing Journal of India, as she felt that an unequal representation of the College was being made in the journal;
Letter dated 8 Nov 1918 from Sir Cooper Perry (?) to Miss Violet Markham berating her for claiming that she was too busy to take on further work for the College of Nursing;
Letter dated 13 Sept 1918 from William Endicott of the American Red Cross to Sir Arthur Stanley apologising for his inability to contribute towards the Tribute Fund due to the pressures of already supporting various military relief causes;
Copy letter dated 3 July 1918 from Queen Alexandra to Sir Arthur Stanley concerning the Tribute Fund and expressing her support for it;
Letter dated 26 Nov 1918 from Miss D H Coleman of the Surrey branch of the British Red Cross to Sir Arthur Stanley concerning nurses salaries and claiming that he had been rude to Mrs Bedford Fenwick and her associates in a recent letter to The Daily Telegraph;
Minutes of meeting held on the 15 Mar 1918 to discuss the proposed Ministry of Health Bill;
The British Hospitals Association: Report of the Council for the Year 1917;
List of members of the Council of the British Medical Association 1918;
Article written for publication in the Nursing Journal by "Ierne" voicing objections to the Tribute Fund and the College of Nursing;
Letter dated 22 July 1918 from Sir Henry Streatfield to Sir Arthur Stanley, writing on behalf of Queen Alexandra and informing AS of her approval of his plan to ask Queen Mary to become patron of the Tribute Fund.
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