Asks to have a horse to ride for the day.

Says that “your dear father” is in better health. “Against I come back I hope to find you more of a young lady and less of a vulgar hoyden.” Domestic details.

Describes a walk on Marmora shore. Encountered someone who reminded her of Kingston. Description of hospital and patients .Greetings to friends.

From Scutari Barracks. Scolds her sister for publishing one of her letters. Acknowledges receipt of some items she had asked for, including wormwood to repel fleas. Much religious activity around the hospital - services, scripture readings. Patients more sick than wounded. Encountered someone who gave her news of Canadian friends. Asks for stationery, pens and pencils, biscuits, etc . Mentions rats.

First letter following arrival in Scutari. Discusses briefly quarters, work, voyage, weather and surroundings. Asks for some medical supplies to be sent to her. In an unknown hand.

Talks of views and flowers. Mentions letters received. Working in kitchen. “Fever” common. Earth tremors.

Acknowledges receipt of box of tools. Discusses work and patients and possible capture of Sebastopol. Remarks again on the beauty of “Asia”.

Weather very hot. Miss Nightingale better. No definite news from Sebastopol. Has a Turkish-English grammar. Family comment.

Sends some weed specimens. More descriptions of flowers. Encounter with two children who took her to see their home and garden.

Comments on some new nurses as “low creatures”. Some cholera cases. Weather hot but she is in good health. Continues study of Turkish. Ordered new shoes. Comments on family and friends and correspondence.

Trouble at Kulali where “new nurses” had been established. Encountered Alfred Green, a family friend. Still another earthquake. Decrease in number of hospital deaths. More on wild flowers, etc. Sebastopol not yet taken. Would like a telescope.

Discusses sister Dolly and family quarrel. Not likely to be going up to Balaklava. Health not robust. Comments on family friends. Improvements in living quarters.

Congratulates her sister on birth of fifth child. Suggests that no letters be sent pending news. Trouble over “free gifts”. Weather lovely.

Civilian orderlies have arrived in their uniforms designed by Prince Albert who “since he has the vocation for being a tailor so strongly developed” should “set up a shop in Regents St. and let the army alone”. New troops passing through. News of friends she had seen or heard of. Had been ill and might have been sent home, but recovered. Not sure that women nurses is a good idea. Staff not well organized.

Rough voyage and she has been seasick. She is accompanying Rev. Mother M. Clare Moore whose health has been poor and is being invalided home. Describes departure and the voyage. A number of invalided troops on board. Letter continued on May 10. Description of Gibraltar. Ends with arrival in England.

Very few patients. Rumours of peace. Many troops about. New sisters have come from Bermondsey. Wants a lamp or lantern for night work. Family talk.

Talks of German patients with whom she could converse a little and of their celebration of Christmas. Recollections of life and friends in Kingston. Patients and troops in the barracks. Cold weather, but less snow than last year.

Tells her story of taking a deranged nun to an asylum at Bruges. (This incident possibly contributed to the temporary closing of the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth and to the return of Sister Mary Gonzaga to the convent at Bermondsey.)

Says he does not know how best to help Georgy in her present difficulties. Praises her character and goodness, but feels she would be wise to be conciliatory.

Newspaper clipping quoting letter to wife of a wounded soldier who died at Scutari.

This group of letters consists, with minor exceptions, of correspondence from Sister Mary Gonzaga (Georgiana Barrie) (1825-1873), a Sister of Mercy from Bermondsey, to her sister Julia (Mrs. Edward Boodle) during the Crimean War. There are a few letters that were written after the Crimean War. A few letters were written by Mrs. Boodle to Gonzaga and one letter was written to Boodle by Alfred Green. There are also assorted reproductions of photographs, certificates, and drawings related to Sister Mary Gonzaga and the Sisters of Mercy.