Letter, 1850, May 21, Washington, D.C., to Mary Peabody Mann, West Newton, Mass.

ArchivalResource

Letter, 1850, May 21, Washington, D.C., to Mary Peabody Mann, West Newton, Mass.

Informs her of the activities of Dorothea L. Dix.

3 p. on 2 l.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7583868

Massachusetts Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c24zj6 (person)

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...

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf2xnw (person)

Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...

Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody (1806-1887)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61k5k38 (corporateBody)