Dorothea Lynde Dix letter, 1882.

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Dorothea Lynde Dix letter, 1882.

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Signed letter to Prof. Robert Ellis Thompson declining to authorize an article about her for the American Supplement of the Encyclopedia Britannica (Stoddart's Encyclopedia Americana).

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Maine Historical Society Library

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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...

Thompson, Robert Ellis, 1844-1924

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Professor Robert Ellis Thompson was editor-in-chief of the American Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for J. M. Stoddart & Co., Publishers, in Philadelphia. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1882. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884013 ...