Letters from Horatio Appleton Lamb, 1880-1886.

H. C. Fahnestock.

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Dorothea L. Dix

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Lamb, Horatio Appleton, 1850-1926.

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Note on title page, "Mr. Lamb made these notes many years ago. A Boston fire burned the down-town office and most of the originals on which his notes were based. This transcript follows Mr. Lamb's text as closely as possible. Matter of purely personal and of no historical interest has been omitted." From the description of Notes on trade with the northwest coast, 1790-1810 ... from the records of James and Thomas Lamb, merchant shippers of Boston, 1781-1813 : manuscript, 1916. (Harva...

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...