Letter, 1856 May 26, to Thomas Seymour.

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Letter, 1856 May 26, to Thomas Seymour.

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Has made arrangements for Dorothea Dix to visit charitable institutions and houses of detention in the capital, regrets that she has so little time at her disposal.

2 p. ; 27 x 21 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Ignatiev, Nikolai Pavlovich, 1832-1908.

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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...

Seymour, Thomas H. (Thomas Hart), 1807-1868

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