Note 334 — Chapter III · THE FOUNDER OF MODERN NURSING (1860)
Reading edition
The saying is recorded in C. R. Leslie's Autobiographical Recollections, vol. i. p. 169, as made to Lady Holland. “Oh!” said the lady, tapping him with her fan, “you have lived among such a rantipole set.” “I happen to know,” wrote Monckton Milnes to Miss Nightingale, “who Lord Melbourne's nurse was.”