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1840 January 8 . H[oratio] N[elson] Brinsmade ALS to Tho[ma]s H. Gallaudet; Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

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Box 2
Abstract:
Requesting information about the Hartford "Retreat for the Insane" in response to a member of his church becoming "deranged" in the previous few months. Desires to know more about the resident physician, Dr. Fuller. The woman is the wife of Col. Thaddeus Clapp and the daughter of Mr. James Colt, "families highly esteemed." "Her derangement has been produced by intense and continued anxiety absent her husband who has been for some time quite feeble and depressed in spirits, but is now recovering – still the effect of his solicitude, and watching, and abstinence has been to produce this mental aberration, which daily increases." Asks about the terms and expenses associated with staying at the Retreat, but specifies that this "is of little importance, only that the proper evaluations may be made." Docket by Gallaudet states that there is no room at the Retreat.
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Collection

Science and Medicine collection, 1702-1936
Total components 316
Last indexed 2024-08-05