Adventures of an army nurse in two wars / edited from the diary and correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness von Olnhausen, by James Phinney Munroe.

  • Olnhausen, Mary Phinney von, 1818-1902.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Adventures of an army nurse in two wars / edited from the diary and correspondence of Mary Phinney, Baroness von Olnhausen, by James Phinney Munroe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF AN ARMY NURSE IN TWO WARS CHAPTER I IN the south part of the historic town of Lex- ington, Massachusetts, lies a farm of many hilk aCrCl gently sloPlng from high, wooded on the east towards the valley of Hobbs’ Rrook — now converted into a reservoir for Cam- bridge _ on the west. Divided by the shaded coun ry road which leads from Lexington village past he birthphce of Theodore Parker, to the cL n h a.tlam’ thls farm comprises on the one side rchards and cultivated meadows, on the other a wide expanse of grass-land sweeping „ of tHe t °f “le ^4-lfouse -d rock madL V TT7’5 ed^e ^ magnificent “Saufie” PI °Ug ” NW Hampshire by J unney seventy years ago. This es tate, the beauty of which is unsurpassed in Lex ngton, was almost continuously, from i786 to T