How Far Is Source 2c Supported by Sources 2a and 2b?

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How far is Source 2C supported by Sources 2A and 2B? I believe that Source 2C is poorly supported by Sources 2A and 2B because of the agenda of Denis Judd and the contrasting views between sources. Denis Judd, in Source 2C, is a very traditionalist view on nursing in the Crimean War. He has an agenda to inform readers of his “The Crimean War” book, but clearly leans very much towards how well Nightingale served the British soldiers in the Crimea. Both Source 2A and 2B have some supporting points, and some very unsupportive points. They have similarities in that both appear to be reports back to high ranking people in the UK. The exaggeration of the conditions, “an inch of liquid filth floated over the floor” is not mentioned once in the two letter extracts from Nightingale in Sources 2A and 2B, can call his reliability of information into question. Judd was a traditionalist historian, compelled in many of his historical publications. In Source 2B, a source that leans towards un-supporting Judd, Nightingale appears to be reporting back to Sidney Herbert with the list of points in her letter. Herbert was a member of Parliament at the time, and was the man who sent Florence Nightingale and her nurses out to the Crimea. Herbert was suggested to send them out by the Head of the Medial Department, Dr Andrew Smith, on a commission to investigate the state of the hospitals. This, for me, makes this source unreliable and unsupportive of Judd because it’s almost like she’s there as, she says a “government spy” and not a nurse, trying to “improve conditions” as Judd tries to put across. She also says she was given “private instructions” which brings in an element of secrecy that the British public wouldn’t have known about. Being the first of many letters to Herbert, Source 2B makes it look like a report to show the government what conditions were like. In Source 2A, a
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