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Nursing in other Countries 297 that she tried to devote her own energies to it and attempted vainly to get some training in Italy. She then wrote to Miss Nightingale, who took deep interest in her aims, wrote her several delightful and characteristic letters, and arranged for her to enter the Royal infirmary at Edinburgh, to be trained under Miss Spencer (1893-4)- Miss Turton proved to have potent abiHty for starting things and getting people interested, and as her circle of friends were influential people, she was able to initiate important movements. It was she who brought Grace Baxter from the Johns Hopkins hospital (where she had finished training), to Naples (1901). The Princess Strongoli, a prom- inent patron of modern education for girls, had already founded a girls' school in that city, and was interested in developing nursing. Through her influence certain wards in the large general hos- pital Gesu e Maria were available for this purpose, and there Miss Baxter did remarkable and very successful work for a number of years. Grace Baxter was also of English parentage, but had been born and had lived all her life in Italy. She was, probably, of all the women who have done valuable work in remodelling Italian nursing, the one who was, by Italians, regarded as being most nearly an