Calendar of letters of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1876-1885 : State Hospital Depository, Department of Institutions and Agencies, Trenton, New Jersey / prepared by the New Jersey Historical Records Survey Program, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration ; sponsored by New Jerse

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Calendar of letters of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1876-1885 : State Hospital Depository, Department of Institutions and Agencies, Trenton, New Jersey / prepared by the New Jersey Historical Records Survey Program, Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration ; sponsored by New Jersey State Planning Board. 1941 Oct.

[25] leaves ; 28 cm.

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New Jersey State Library

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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...

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project

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New Jersey State Hospital (Trenton, NJ)

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Jarvis, Alfred J.

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