Miss Nightingale's work on Indian questions. Her sources of information and industrious study: her opportunities of effective action less than in earlier years. II. Continued interest in army sanitation--Letter from Lord Napier of Magdala--Correspondence with Lord Salisbury and Lord Northbrook. III. Correspondence with Lord Salisbury and the Duke of Buckingham on the drainage of Madras. IV. Indian famines and an extension of Miss Nightingale's interests --Correspondence with Sir Arthur Cotton. V. An irrigation campaign --Miss Nightingale's appeal to Lord Salisbury for a Return of irrigation-results--Lord Salisbury on the experts--Miss Nightingale's continued advocacy of irrigation--Her article in the _Nineteenth Century_ on "The People of India" (1878)-- Correspondence with Lord Cranbrook. VI. Correspondence and interview with Mr. Gladstone--The death of Lord Lawrence. VII. Miss Nightingale's unpublished book on Indian Land Tenures and Irrigation--Her Irrigation maps. VIII. Her impatience at the slow rate of Indian reforms--Lord Salisbury's Philosophic Defence of the Policy of Draft 273 CHAPTER V HOME LIFE IN SOUTH STREET AND THE COUNTRY Miss Nightingale's house in South Street--Sir Harry Verney's house in the same street. II. Her servants--Housekeeping. III. Miss Nightingale as a hostess--Reminiscences by a nursing friend. IV. Miss Nightingale's room--Personal appearance--Rarely out of doors--Love of birds--Note on London sky-effects. V. Sojourns out of London--A "lobster-like villa" at Norwood (1875)--Annual visits with her mother at Lea Hurst--Miss Nightingale's interest in her poorer neighbours--Mother and daughter--Impression made by Miss Nightingale on her friends--Mr. Jowett--The Grand Duchess of Baden --Lady Ashburton. VI. Letters to M. and Mme. Mohl--Death of M. Mohl (1876)--Death of Dr. Parkes--Miss Nightingale's intervention once more to save the Army Medical School--The Eastern Question--Miss Paulina Irby. VII. Was Miss Nightingale's a happy life?--Letters from Mr. Jowett 300 CHAPTER VI LORD RIPON AND GENERAL GORDON (1880-1885)