| Description Of Item | Manuscript notes from Thomas Laycock about melancholia. Discussed types of melancholia are domestic melancholia, erotic melancholia (erotomania), suspecting melancholia, religious melancholia, political melancholia, social melancholia, and hypochondriacal melancholia. Connections between melancholia and nostalgia, jealousy, suicide and self-accusing are discussed. Press cuttings about Robert Webster’s self-accusation of murder, the suicide of Gabriel Tregear, and Charles Tallbrook’s attack on Mary King are included. The notes contain a reference to the work of C Castelnau.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |