Letters and drawings by patients in various French asylums
- Date:
- c.1857-1890
- Reference:
- MS.5644
- Part of:
- Insanity, France, 19th Century
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Letters and drawings by patients in various French asylums, including the Asile Sainte Anne and the Salpêtrière, Paris, and the Asile Public d'Aliénées at Charenton. Included is a long poem addressed to Jacques Joseph Valentin Magnan (1835-1916) at the Asile Sainte Anne.
Publication/Creation
c.1857-1890
Physical description
46 items
Acquisition note
Purchased from Degrange, Paris, 1930.
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).
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores
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Identifiers
Accession number
- acc. 63923