Letter to Captain Ambrose Snow, Trustee, Sailors' Snug Harbor, from Edmund B. Double, former inmate, Sailors’ Snug Harbor, November 20, 1886
Identifier
SC-0016-I-D-1-B-071Abstract
Handwritten letter from Edmund B. Double, inmate of Sailors' Snug Harbor residing in the Hudson River State Hospital, to Captain Ambrose Snow, explaining that he has been put in the asylum due to standing up for his rights, that he is not insane, and that he asks Snow to intervene, as the governor of the Harbor has not done so.Name
Name: Double, Edmund B., -1889Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: Hudson River State Hospital (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Name: Snow, Ambrose, 1813-1895
Role: Addressee
Institutional Affiliation: Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)
Type Of Resource
TextsNote
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: November 20 1886Place: Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)
Genre
letters (correspondence)Physical Description
extent: 20.5 x 25.7 cmDigital Origin: Reformatted digital
Subjects
Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)Hudson River State Hospital (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatric hospital patients
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