We have made Miss Nightingale's acquaintance and are delighted and very much struck with her great gentleness, simplicity, and wonderful clear and comprehensive head. I wish we had her at the War Office. Her modesty and unselfishness are really hardly to be believed, and she is so ladylike.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We have made Miss Nightingale's acquaintance and are delighted and very much struck with her great gentleness, simplicity, and wonderful clear and comprehensive head. I wish we had her at the War Office. Her modesty and unselfishness are really hardly to be believed, and she is so ladylike." in the context of "Queen Victoria to the Duke of Cambridge (autumn 1856), quoted in George, Duke of Cambridge: A Memoir of his Private Life based on the Journals and Correspondence of His Royal Highness, Vol. I. 1819–1871, ed. Edgar Sheppard (1906), p. 148" to mean that wisdom is timeless.