10 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 17

SCUTARI AND BALACLAVA.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I point out in reply to your correspondent "E. S. S." in last week's issue that the article to which I referred seemed to convey the impression that Miss Nightin- gale went straight to the " seat of war " ? I was the more con- strained to write to you because one of your contemporaries gravely related a story that Miss Nightingale gave a sovereign to a young gunner who assisted her to obtain a good view of the battle of Balaclava ! She did not go to Balaclava for quite six months after the battle. In the meantime it was at Scutari, and not in the Crimea, that she gained the name of the " Lady with the Lamp."—I am, Sir, &c.,