Volume of publications and tracts on York Lunatic Asylum

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Volume contains the following: 1.  A History of the York Lunatic Asylum, with an Appendix containing minutes of the evidence on the cases of abuse inquired into by a committee etc, addressed to William Wilberforce Esq, one of the contributors to Lupton's Fund [by Jonathan Gray] (1815) 2.  A Complete Collection of the Papers respecting the York Lunatic Asylum published originally in the York Newspapers during the Years 1813, 1814, and 1815. Nil Desperandum (1816) [there is another copy of this in RET 8/1/1/1]

Volume of publications and tracts on York Lunatic Asylum

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