| Description Of Item | Letter on note paper headed ‘Perth District Asylum’. Possibly final page missing as no signature. Possibly from William Carmichael McIntosh as he was Medical Superintendent at the time. Makes reference to a case in the asylum. It refers to ‘Roy’s kidneys’, his testes, death and [‘monomania of pride’]. It describes his character: ‘considered himself superior to most’. He was a mason and thought himself a most skilful workman. He decorated himself with ribbons, chains, squirrels tails, ‘he was kind to the feeble and [illegible] himself their special nurse and attendant’. He refused to see his wife and denounced her and his relatives. He regards the asylum as his home. He was captured by police while wearing a crown with stag’s horns. There is a small drawing of the crown on the bottom of the third page. Letter also refers to the ‘utter weakness of [illegible] James’s defence’, ‘the Lunacy Board insisting on publishing [illegible] James’s original [illegible] as it stands’. |