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Letter from Dorothea Dix to Peter Vroom

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Letter from Dorothea Dix to Peter Vroom
Number of Pages
4
Date
July 27, 1852
Dorothea Dix writes former New Jersey Governor Peter D. Vroom to introduce Dr. Richard Stuart and mentions establishing a hospital for the insane in Maryland.
People
Dix, Dorothea Lynde
Vroom, Peter Dumont
Stuart, Richard
Subject
Health and Medicine
Politics and Government
Format
Letters/Correspondence
Time Period
1840-1859
Location
I-Friends-1976-2
Origin
Gift of Friends of the Library
Letter from Dorothea Dix to Peter Vroom

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