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Letters by her to Dr Baker Patient no. 748, 1012, in Retreat 1846 - 1848, 1861 - 1888 (died). Age 18 on first admission, Quaker, single, apprentice to a staymaker, also described as a "poor person", from Reading. Moral insanity and imbecility connected with religious excitement

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