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Letters by him to Dr Kitching, friends and family, letters to him from friend, letters to Dr Kitching about him from his friends; also legal petition in matter of his lunacy 1866; and report to Retreat Committee on case of Daniel Richardson, and of cases of John Forbes and William Lamb, 1852 Patient no. 821, 1078, in Retreat 1850 - 1852, 1865 - 1869 (died). Age 45 on first admission, Quaker, single, farmer, from Great Leighs, Chelmsford. Delusions with melancholy

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