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Ref NoDEP/LAT/1/55
TitleLecture file of Thomas Laycock: Objective Representative Faculties - Gestures - Speech - Writing - Aesthetic Fac [Faculties]
Date1858-1875
TermPoetry
Asylum
Description Of ItemContains 'Aesthetic representative faculties' with pasted cutting on the art of John Martin; 'Objective Representative Faculties'; and 'Special Representative Faculties' with doodles, word squares and poetry presumably by Laycock and pasted cutting on the pope fainting and characters of handwriting. Also includes nosology of mental diseases; a drawing by A M Edwards, 1860; letter from Robert Lawson, West Riding Asylum, Wakefield concerning a patient's creation of a bust of Shakespeare, 1875; and cuttings on the anatomy of laughing, force of imitation and a review of the 'True Theory of the Subjunctive' by Gavin Hamilton.
Extent7 pieces
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