Papers, 1810-1921.

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Papers, 1810-1921.

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Correspondence and professional papers of Walter Channing, psychiatrist and chairman of the board of trustees of the Boston State Hospital from 1908 to 1914. Among Channing's correspondents were numerous physicians, psychiatrists, and other professional men, including Harvey Humphrey Baker, Walter E. Fernald, Henry P. Frost, L. Vernon Briggs, Henry LeFavour, and Elmer E. Southard. Family correspondents include Channing's wife, Anna K. Morse Channing, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, his uncle and guardian. (Con't) Channing opened a psychiatric hospital in Brookline, Mass., in 1879, and built a new Channing Sanitarium in nearby Wellesley in 1916. The collection includes drafts and typescripts of Channing's writings, including short stories and a pamphlet on Leon F. Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley. A letter from anarchist Emma Goldman concerning Czolgosz is included. Also included are scattered reports of the Boston State Hospital, diaries of Anna Channing (1868-1878), and diaries of Walter Channing (1904-21 and scattered earlier years). The collection contains some items from Channing's grandfather, Dr. Walter Channing (1786-1876): a journal of a trip to England (1810-12), and a notebook listing and commenting on midwifery cases (1811-22).

18 boxes, 1 v., and 4 pamphlet boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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