BIB_ID
103643
Accession number
MA 22935
Creator
Forster, John, 1812-1876.
Display Date
London, England, 1855 March 12.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.8 x 11.9 cm
Notes
From Dickens-Correspondence.
Written on the stationery of the "Office of Commissioners in Lunacy, / 19, Whitehall Place, S.W."
Written on the stationery of the "Office of Commissioners in Lunacy, / 19, Whitehall Place, S.W."
Summary
Commenting on various asylums; saying "Hanwell would not do - because at Hanwell they take none but pauper patients. You are quite right in the notion as to the superiority of public over private asylums - but if those which I named to you are too distant, there is a large private asylum at Bow which is very well conducted, & has many of the advantages of a public institution - which might be desirable for the purpose - This is "Mr. Byas : Grove Hall, Bow'. If you determine to make application to him, you may use my name in doing so. I should imagine that very good care and accommodation indeed might be obtained there at from a guinea to 25/a week - There are no public institutions near London that would be at all suitable to the case."
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