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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Autograph Letter Signed to George Barrell Emerson; Philadelphia?, 1845 June 18
File — Folder: 29
Call Number: MS Ch.M.3.2 pt.1
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Sunday, driven to prison to teach, had satisfactory interviews with prisoners. Monday - $700 subscribed for hospital farm; Tuesday - drove into country to survey farms for hospital. Saw Overseers of the Poor, discussed architect’s plans for new poorhouse. Wednesday – 5 hours at Blackall’s Island hospitals; crossed river in boat manned by insane man. Thursday – hours at state prison in Trenton. Left for Philadelphia . Will go to Salem, New Jersey and Harrisburg. Asks Emerson to see that Mayor...
Dates:
1845 June 18