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Contains very detailed reports from the beginning of the project, including notes about setting up the laboratory and project headquarters, shipping equipment, lab animals, and medical supplies, difficulties in the field, tensions among players (both political and cultural), and assessments of personnel and situations.

Folders contain articles by various authors, reprints, drafts of writings, notes, and correspondence, including a long series of exchanges about the etymology in Arabic and Hebrew of various words for leprosy, yaws, and syphilitic symptoms.

The large black-and-white illustration on this single sheet shows Florence Nightingale on horseback ascending a steep incline in the mountains of Crimea; she is accompanied by soldiers and porters both on horseback and on foot. The camp hospitals are visible to the far right in the distance. The short article beneath describes her movements in May and June of 1855 and her attack of fever.

Single sheet from the News features a piece of music lauding Florence Nightingale, covering a full side of the sheet. The three stanzas were written by Francis Bennoch (this piece of sheet music was also published in 1855 under the name Francis Bennock) and the score was composed by J.L. Hatton.