| Description | Fearful explosion yesterday which shook the hospital and caused the utmost alarm: her being more frightened by it than all the previous "wonders and horrors": her orderly telling her that the 7th Fusiliers had nearly all been killed, and her telegraphing to find out news about George, whom she was determined to go and and nurse, if wounded: thankful receipt of enclosed paper: report of the explosion being of a magazine on the extreme right (near the windmill) and of the French magazine being hit by a shell: deaths of between 500 and 700, with a court of inquiry called: her preference to go to the Monastery of St George rather than staying where she is (the hospital at Balaklava having been given up to the RC party and 12 Irish nuns), having been given the choice by Dr Hall: her thanks to Sir Thomas for his kind letter.
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[Letter is undated, but the two explosions took place on 15 Nov 1855, and she refers in another letter that she had written on Saturday, the 17th, making it possible that she actually wrote it over two days or at night]. |