The years of Miss Nightingale's most trying work. Her helpers--The indispensable Dr. Sutherland--His constant service--Miss Nightingale as task-mistress--Her method of "conversation" by written notes. II. Seclusion from her friends--Her strict rule of life--Letters to Madame Mohl--Visit from Garibaldi (1864)--Her account of the interview--Appreciation of Abraham Lincoln--Death of Lord Palmerston. III. Miss Nightingale's scheme for investments by the working-classes in small freeholds--Correspondence with Mr. Villiers and Mr. Gladstone. IV. Sympathetic letters to friends --Literary correspondence with M. Mohl. V. Friendship with Mr. Jowett--Their correspondence--Miss Nightingale's work for the army and for India an accidental "call"--Her yearnings for hospital work 84 CHAPTER VI NEW MASTERS (1866) Public events in 1866 in relation to Miss Nightingale's work. Letters on those events. II. The story of a lost dispatch. Sir John Lawrence's scheme for sanitary organization in India--Miss Nightingale's anxiety to have it revised before the Liberal Government fell--The Dispatch lost at the India Office: found by Lord Ripon--His reply to it drafted, when the government fell. III. Miss Nightingale's vexation--Dr. Sutherland's absence--Visit from Lord Napier on his appointment to the governorship of Madras. IV. The Conservative Government--Miss Nightingale's desire to come in touch with the new ministers--Correspondence with Lord Cranborne (India Office) and Mr. Gathorne Hardy (Poor Law Board). V. The Austro-Prussian War--Miss Nightingale and war-nursing-- Correspondence with the Princess Alice and the Crown Princess of Prussia. VI. A holiday at Embley with her mother--Private meditations 104 PART VI MANY THREADS (1867-1872) CHAPTER I WORKHOUSE REFORM (1864-1867)