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- catalog abstract "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.".
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- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Hospitals.".
- catalog date "1798".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Dorothea Lynde Dix Papers, 1798-1893 (MS Am 1838). Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00078".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid available in the Houghton Reading Room reference collection.".
- catalog extent "29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)".
- catalog hasFormat "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog issued "1798".
- catalog language "In English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog relation "Selected color digital images available; see finding aid.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Hospitals.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Asylums Law and legislation.".
- catalog subject "Asylums United States.".
- catalog subject "Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.".
- catalog subject "Government Hospital for the Insane (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Mentally ill Care.".
- catalog subject "Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum.".
- catalog subject "Prisons Law and legislation.".
- catalog title "Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).".
- catalog type "Daguerreotypes United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Diaries United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Hymns. aat".
- catalog type "Military passes. aat".
- catalog type "Notebooks. aat".
- catalog type "Poems United States 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Portraits. aat".
- catalog type "Reports. aat".
- catalog type "collection".