| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Poole's note on content continues 'Letters on ditto from officers of asylums etc among them two or three notes from Joseph Hume, to whom I had written on the subject desiring information'. Includes letters from the following asylums - Aberdeen (Robert Jamieson); Belfast (R Stewart); Dundee (A Mackintosh); Edinburgh Royal (W Mackinnon); Edinburgh, Bristo Port (Peter Mackay); Kent (G Poynder and W G Quick) including printed report, account of the receipts of disbursements and receipts and expenditure; Lancaster (Samuel Gaskell) including accounts; Melton (John Kirkman); Waterford (C Corsellis); and York (Samuel Tuke); other correspondence, relating to the care of the insane more generally, from David Craigie; Joseph Hume; Francis White, Inspector General of Prisons, Dublin; Henry Lugden, secretary to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland; and William James Shaw; Poole's handwritten accounts for asylums in Waterford, Montrose, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Belfast, Gloucester, Wakefield, Northampton and York; printed report on lunatic asylum near Exeter, 1843 with comparison with 1801 when the asylum opened; printed report of the Visiting Committee for Gloucester Asylum 1840, 1841, 1842; printed 23rd annual report of Nottingham Asylum, 1843; printed 23rd and 24th annual reports of Staffordshire General Lunatic Asylum, 1841, 1842; printed report of the Committee of the York Lunatic Asylum, 1843; and printed statement of accounts of the Fever Hospital for the County and City of Waterford, 1842. |