Royal Highness about these subjects, I will not now enter into two or three other little things with which I was commissioned. May I beg always to be considered, Madam, the most faithful, ready and devoted of Your Royal Highness's servants. (_The Crown Princess of Prussia to Miss Nightingale._) OSBORNE, _Dec._ 24 [1868]. I don't wish to lose a _minute_ in thanking you for your great kindness and for all the trouble you have taken for me. Your letter is so _excellent_, and all the information you give is _most_ valuable, and will be of untold use, not only to _me_ as a guide in my humble endeavours to promote a _serious_, _conscientious_, and _rational_ spirit in the treatment of sanitary matters, but to many others in Germany. Your precious time has _not_ been wasted while you were writing for me, I assure you. The dress I think _very_ neat and nice, and not clerical looking (which is, in my eyes, an advantage). I was so vexed that I forgot to tell you the other day how much I admired _Una and the Lion_. I read it this summer in Germany, and thought it touching and lovely in the extreme. I "colported" it right and left! After I have arrived at Berlin and had leisure thoroughly to go into every detail of the materials you have given me, I will write to you again. These few lines are only to express my earnest thanks. The Crown Prince wishes me to say how sorry he is never to have seen you. He shares my feelings when your name is mentioned. I trust that the next time I am in this country I shall see you again. I remain, dear Miss Nightingale, yours gratefully, VICTORIA. Negotiations with the Nightingale Fund were presently opened, and the Crown Princess sent Fräulein Fuhrmann, who afterwards superintended the Victoria Training School for Nurses in Berlin (p. 204), to receive her own training as a Nightingale Nurse at St. Thomas's. III