Letters written for the most part by patients in the Salpêtrière, Paris.

Some letters are addressed to Ulysse Trélat (1795-1879) and his colleagues on the medical staff of the Salpêtrière hospital.

1851-1856

70 items

Purchased from Dr P L Gachet, Paris, 1928.

Cf. Jean Vinchon, 'En marge des dessins de folies du Docteur Paul Gachet', Histoire de la Médecine, numéro spécial 1958: 9-27.

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).

The letters remained in the possession of Paul Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909), an extern at the Salpêtrière during the 1850s who worked with Trélat and Jean Pierre Falret (1794-1870).