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Letter to Captain Gustavus D. S. Trask, Governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor, from M. [Martin] B. Monroe, Steward, New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, Morris Plains, N.J., April 6, 1885
Identifier
SC-0016-III-A-1-0310Abstract
Handwritten letter from Martin B. Monroe, Steward at the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, to Captain Gustavus D. S. Trask, replying to Trask's letter "of the 2nd" [April?]. Monroe explains that the influx of patients from the Trenton Asylum has not filled the Morris Plains asylum to capacity and that Sailors' Snug Harbor may continue to send inmates there as necessary.Name
Name: Monroe, Martin B., 1837-1920Role: Author
Institutional Affiliation: New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane (Morristown, N.J.)
Name: Trask, Gustavus D. S. (Dunham Smith), 1837-1914
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: April 6 1885Place: Morris Plains (N.J.)
Genre
letters (correspondence), business lettersPhysical Description
extent: 23.5 x 14.8 cmDigital Origin: Reformatted digital
Subjects
Sailors' Snug Harbor (Institution)New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane (Morristown, N.J.)
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatric hospital patients
New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton
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