Ledger and cash book : estate of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1887 July 19-1926 Feb. 23.

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Ledger and cash book : estate of Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1887 July 19-1926 Feb. 23.

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A record of income and disbursements, from the death of Dorothea Lynde Dix to the death of her financial advisor and executor Horatio Appleton Lamb.

2 v. ; 35 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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Lamb, Horatio A. (Horatio Appleton), 1850-1926.

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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...