Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

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Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

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The bulk of the collection is correspondence, much of it pertaining to Dix's work with the mentally ill. Includes letters from superintendents of hospitals for the insane: 134 from Dr. John Curwen at the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum in Harrisburg, 129 from Dr. Charles H. Nichols at the Government Hospital for the Insane (now St. Elizabeths) in Washington, D.C., and 124 from Richard S. Fellowes in New Haven, Conn., as well as 69 letters from U.S. president Millard Fillmore, and letters of thanks from states, institutions, and relatives of the mentally ill. Also contains Dix's correspondence with friends in the U.S. and Great Britain; third party correspondence relating to Dix's career or discussing her after her death; reports and notes on hospitals and prisons; documents to establish asylums, regulate prisons, or authorize Dix to organize military hospitals; military passes; notebooks Dix kept with hymns, sermons, and passages from the Bible; one diary, 1857; poems; address books; financial and genealogical papers; wills;portraits; daguerreotypes; biographical material; puzzles; printed material; clippings; and memorabilia.

29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

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Curwen, John, 1821-1901

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Epithet: of Add MS 36045 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x00004b John Curwen (1816-1880) was an English congregational minister who made an impact on music education through his Tonic Sol-fa pedagogical method. Curwen learned to read music by using a book authored by Sarah Glover that presented her Norwich Sol-fa method for reading notated music. Curwen adapted Glover's method to create his...

Lamb, Horatio Appleton.

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Hare, Esther B. C.

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Fellowes, Richard S., 1814-1884.

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Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

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Millard Fillmore was born in Cayuga County, N.Y. and later became a resident of East Aurora and Buffalo. He was a lawyer, local office holder, State Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, N.Y. State Comptroller, Vice-President under Zachary Taylor and 13th U.S. President, 1850-1853. He was also involved in establishing numerous Buffalo institutions. He was a founder and first Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, Commander of the Union Continentals (Home Guard) during Civil War, and first president o...

Prime, Lydia H.

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Burnap, Nancy W.

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Rathbone, William, 1787-1868

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Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum.

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Heath, Anne Eliza.

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Burghardt, Caroline A.

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Nichols, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1820-1889

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Pyschiatrist. From the description of Charles H. Nichols papers, 1857-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980308 ...

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...

Government Hospital for the Insane (U.S.)

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Benjamin, M. K. (Milton K.)

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Torrey, M. T.

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Doremus family.

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