Casebook and correspondence

Date:: 1870-1925

Reference:: MSS.5725-5726

Part of:: Manor House Asylum

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Manor House AsylumMSS.5725-5726 and 6222-6227
- Casebook and correspondenceMSS.5725-5726
  - Case book, male and female patients, 1870-1884MS.5725
  - Letters to members of the Tuke family and to others, mainly from patients at the AsylumMS.5726

About this work

Description

Case records of the Manor House Asylum, a private lunatic asylum founded by Edward Francis Tuke (c. 1776-1846) and continued by the Tuke family.

Publication/Creation

1870-1925

Physical description

1 volume and 1 file

Acquisition note

Purchased from Mr L E Bond, 1989.

Related material

For further case books of the Asylum 1884-1925, see MSS. 6222-6227.

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Mental Health Archives digitisation project.

Finding aids

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Languages

English

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Identifiers

Accession number

acc. 348216

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