Miss Nightingale's "little Indian Department all to herself," a main pre-occupation. Rest-cure at Malvern (Dec. 1867)--Visit to her mother at Lea Hurst (July-Oct. 1868)--Miss Nightingale's movements in following years. II. Mr. Jowett's plea for less official drudgery, and more literary work--Her "Note on Pauperism" in _Fraser's Magazine_--Interest in colonization--Interview with Mr. Goschen. III. Health work for India: (1) correspondence and interviews with Indian officials--Interviews with Lord Mayo-- Correspondence with Lord Napier (Madras)--"Special cholera inquiry." IV. An episode: Miss Nightingale's intervention to save the Army Sanitary Commission and the Army Medical School from being retrenched out of existence--Statistical evidence of sanitary reform. V. Interviews with Lord Napier of Magdala--Further correspondence with Lord Mayo--Other interviews and correspondence. VI. Health work for India: (2) acquaintance and correspondence with native Indian gentlemen--Sanitary appeal to village elders. VII. Health work for India: (3) work in connection with the Sanitary Department at the India Office--Contributions to and revision of the Indian Health Annual. VIII. Ten years' progress: _How some People have Lived, not Died, in India_--How much, and yet how little! 161 CHAPTER IV ADVISER-GENERAL ON HOSPITALS AND NURSING (1868-1872) Miss Nightingale as a central department relating to hospitals and nurses. Criticism of hospital plans--"Suggestions" for nursing organization in public institutions. II. Visits on such subjects from great personages--Interviews and correspondence with the Crown Princess of Prussia. III. Supervision of the Nightingale Training School--Personal influence--Miss Nightingale's reception of lady superintendents and nurses going out from the School to other posts. IV. Closing of the Midwifery School at King's College Hospital--Miss Nightingale's _Notes on Lying-in Institutions_. V. The Franco-German War--Miss Nightingale and the "National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded"--Communications with the Crown Princess of Germany--Red Cross Societies. VI. Miss Nightingale's continued ill-health--Dr. Sutherland's constant help 185 PART VII WORK OF LATER YEARS (1872-1910) CHAPTER I "OUT OF OFFICE." LITERARY WORK (1872-1874)