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Letters by him, and to him, from friends and relatives, letter by Dr Kitching about him, bills Many of the letters to him were written to him before his admission Patient no. 913, 936, in Retreat 1855, 1857 (discharged). Age 54 on first admission, Quaker, single, dealer in tea, from Catterick, Yorkshire. Depression with partial dementia, and erotomania

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