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Notes and papers on the Seneca Indians who visited The Retreat 8 May 1818

The Indians signed their names in the General Visitors' Book RET 1/4/4/1. Includes postcard sized photograph of York Theatre Royal handbill advertising the performance of the Indians there

GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE

PAPERS ON THE HISTORY OF THE RETREAT

Papers and Notes on the History of the Retreat

Notebooks of transcripts of Retreat Correspondence and other Records, c 1760s - c 1900

Notes: 'Supplementary Retreat History' [by H.C. Hunt]

Notebook of extracts from the early General Visitors' Books 1811 - 1861 and notes on some of the visitors named

Notebook containing index to names in first General Visitors' Book between the dates 1798 - 1816

Notebooks with notes on the Retreat, the Tukes, Rowntrees, Lamel Hill, abstracts and extracts from Retreat reports, statistics, Mrs Pumphrey's notes etc

Notebook of notes on Retreat, Tuke family, lunacy etc

Notebook written by D.R. [Doris] Richardson, listing alterations and major additions to The Retreat, taken from Annual Reports

List of names of female visitors 1818 - 1821

Notes on, and transcript of, the earliest printed form used for the admission of a patient on 19 May 1818

Writings on William Tuke by H.C. Hunt

Notes on Esther Tuke

Genealogical Notes and Family Tree of Maud Family

Notes on Thomas Allis and John Kitching including a copy of a poem about the latter

Notes on people connected with the Retreat in the 18th and early 19th centuries

Notes on Lamel Hill, with extracts from Committee Minutes

Manuscript extracts and typescript account, with extracts, of diary of Alfred Smith, patient at the Retreat, 1870s

Letters relating to enquiries

Various notes on the history of the Retreat

Papers on the Retreat archives and books

Newspaper cuttings, cuttings from magazines, and other printed material on the Retreat, and the Tuke family

Newspaper cuttings about mental health and asylums in general

Newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to local history

Papers, newspaper cuttings, transcripts, leaflets, and notes on religion and spiritual matters

Files of correspondence and papers relating to H.C. Hunt, A Retired Habitation. A History of The Retreat, York (London 1932)

Notes and papers on the Seneca Indians who visited The Retreat 8 May 1818

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