Identifier

SC-0016-I-D-1-A-054

Abstract

Handwritten letters from John S. [Simpkins] Butler, of Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, and F. M. Robertson, M.D., to Dr. S. V. R. Bogert [Stephen Van Rensselaer Bogart], physician, Sailors' Snug Harbor, regarding the state and future of a man named J. [Joseph] R. Wilson, an inmate at Sailors' Snug Harbor. In the first letter, Butler writes regarding the limits and terms of admission to the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford. In the second letter, Robertson writes regarding his relation to Wilson and relays all the information he knows about Wilson's past, including the fact that Wilson's mother was the niece of Robertson's wife and that Wilson has resided in Atlanta, Georgia, and visited Savannah, then Charleston, where he met with the Reverend W. B. [William Black] Yates. 

Name

Name: Butler, John Simpkins, 1803-1890
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Retreat for the Insane at Hartford

Name: Bogart, Stephen Van Rensselaer, 1804-1896
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)

Name: Robertson, T. M.
Role: Author

Type Of Resource

Texts

Note

The collection is on permanent loan at the Stephen B. Luce Library of SUNY Maritime College. The Sailors' Snug Harbor records are the Property of the Trustees of the Sailors’ Snug Harbor.

Origin Info

Date Created: June 6 1871
Place: Hartford (Conn.)
; Date Created: January 1 1872
Place: Charleston (S.C.)

Genre

letters (correspondence)

Physical Description

extent: 23.5 x 14.2 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital
; extent: 20.3 x 25.5 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital