Identifier

SC-0016-III-A-1-0169

Abstract

Handwritten letter from Horace A. Buttolph, physician at the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, to Dr. Stephen Van Rensselaer Bogart, of Sailors' Snug Harbor, apologizing for not having notified Dr. Bogart of the burial arrangements made for Sailors' Snug Harbor inmate William Campbell. He mentions a note from a "Mr. Ford." Buttolph explains that Campbell's wife was at the asylum when he died, and wished for him to be buried in the Morristown cemetery, which was then done. He also mentions that the other Sailors' Snug Harbor inmates resident at the asylum are in good bodily health, except for Captain [Jacob] Langthorne, who is "passing through a congestion period."

Name

Name: Buttolph, Horace A., 1815-1898
Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane (Morristown, N.J.)

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

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: December 21 1879
Place: Morris Plains (N.J.)

Genre

letters (correspondence)

Physical Description

extent: 22.9 x 14.5 cm
Digital Origin: Reformatted digital