From The Rev’d Paul Hawkins to David Cameron

To: The Prime Minister,
10 Downing Street,
London

From: The Nightingale Society
c/o The Rev’d Paul Hawkins
9 Buckingham Place
Clifton
Bristol BS8 1LJ

16th January 2016

Dear Prime Minister,

Further to the letter from the Nightingale Society urging you to make the grant of £240,000 for the statue of Mary Seacole to be contingent on its placement at a different site, one of our members has suggested two further possible suitable venues: Windrush Square, Brixton, or outside Mary Seacole House, Clapham High Street.

But we claim no expertise on what would be the best site, simply that St Thomas’ Hospital, as the home of the Nightingale School and base for her founding the modern profession throughout the world, would therefore not be the appropriate site for the Mary Seacole statue.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Hawkins