Papers relating to Hannah West

Date:
1865 - 1871
Reference:
RET/6/19/1/180
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Letters by her to Dr and Mrs Kitching and to Caleb Williams (visiting medical officer to Retreat); letter about her to Dr Kitching from her husband These letters post-date her second stay at Retreat Patient no. 872, 950, in Retreat 1853, 1857 - 1858 (discharged). Age 40 on first admission, Quaker, married, tradesman's daughter of Bath, husband a woollen draper of Warrington, Lancashire. Excitability

Publication/Creation

1865 - 1871

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8 documents

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