Insanity

Date:
1908
Reference:
MS.2997
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Insanity. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Two small booklets stated to have been 'composed, written, ornamented, and finished entirely by a Lunatic in Colney Hatch Asylum, June 1908'. The first work is entitled 'Home', the second 'Stories about Pussy'.

Publication/Creation

1908

Physical description

1 volume 10 ll., 14 ll. 16mo. 91/2 × 71/2 cm. Original paper covers. Calligraphic texts, with titles within ornamental floreated decorations, the text within decorated coloured borders.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1931.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Location of duplicates

L0049338-41; A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection as part of The Mental Health Archives digitisation project.

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  • 83994