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Galt Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Dr. John Minson Galt was the superintendant of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Papers, 1840-1862, of John M. Galt II concerning his work at the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence, reports, clinical notes, medical diaries, financial papers, and printed material.
Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings were added to the collection in 2011 and are in Box 17. The subject matter is mental health with topics such as insanity, murder, suicide and criminal behavior. Some clippings are about Eastern State Hospital (Virginia Lunatic Asylum) and other asylums. Headlines include "The Maniac and the Infant" and "Unfortunate and Melancholy Occurances." Loose papers include Doc. No. 30 "General Table of Patients in the Eastern Asylum...1844;" circular about "Virginia Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, Va.;" a 1860 permission slip to visit the Eastern Lunatic Asylum; 1858 letter from Butler Hospital about a lecture; book plates of mammals, fish and insects; hand drawn horse's head; a page with attached items: newspaper article on women, a bird, a hand painted drawing of a woman and a handpainted drawing of Eastern State Hospital; two pencil rubbings of plants; a note naming the publications by Galt and a partial letter with questions and answers about the activities of the insane.
For a detailed box and folder inventory of this collection, plus digitalized images from the collection, please see the On-line Images/Records section below.
See also Galt Papers (I), (III), and (V), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, and the Galt Family Papers (MS 78.3), Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Miscellaneous: receipts, notes, correspondence, stock certificates, including material relating to John Minson Galt II's administration of his father's estate
Financial, Education, Poetry
Letters
John M. Galt II letter accepting appointment as Supt. Eastern Lunatic Asylum
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers
Medical notes, papers, regarding Eastern Asylum
Temperance Pledges
Administration
Legislature
Article, American Journal of Insanity
Statistical information regarding patients
Medical diary
Medical diary
Medical diary
Medical diary
Medical diary
Medical diary
Medical diary
Medical diary
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Clinical notes
Notes from Record Book of the hospital, 1771-1841
Eastern Asylum draft of report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Notes for Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Reports
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Eastern Asylum Report
Reports
Papers regarding Case of Commonwealth v. James A. Graham
Papers regarding Case of Commonwealth v. James A. Graham
Legal Documents; Writs and Summonses
Ideas on Insanity and Medicine
Lists of Male and Female Patients from the Origin of the Institution; Notes Concerning administration of Eastern Lunatic Asylum.
Drafts of Letters from J.M. Galt II
Drafts of Letters from J.M. Galt II
Drafts of Letters from J.M. Galt II
Barziza, Philip J. Correspondence
Dix, Dorothea L. Letters to John Minson Galt II
Ewell, Benjamin S. letter
Gibson, Churchill Jones letter
Goode, John Branch letter
Preston, William Ballard letter
Saunders, Robert Correspondence
Letters to John Minson Galt II to Stribling, Francis T.
Sweeny, Talbot
Tyler, John letter
Letters to John Minson Galt II
Letters to John Minson Galt II.
Letters to John Minson Galt II.
Letters to John Minson Galt II.
Letters to John Minson Galt II.
Letters to John Minson Galt II.
Letters to John Minson Galt II.
Letters to John Minson Galt II A-L.
Letters to John Minson Galt II, M-R.
Letters to John Minson Galt II, T-Z, anonymous.
Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings added to the collection in 2011. The subject matter is mental health, covering topics such as insanity, murder, suicide, and criminal behavior. Some clippings pertain to Eastern State Hospital (Virginia Lunatic Asylum) and other asylums. Headlines include "The Maniac and the Infant" and "Unfortunate and Melancholy Occurances." Loose papers include Doc. No. 30 "General Table of Patients in the Eastern Asylum...1844"; also includes circular about "Virginia Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, Va."; a 1860 permission slip to visit the Eastern Lunatic Asylum; 1858 letter from Butler Hospital about a lecture; book plates of mammals, fish and insects; hand drawn horse's head; a page with attached items: newspaper article on women, a bird, a hand-painted drawing of a woman and a hand-painted drawing of Eastern State Hospital; two pencil rubbings of plants; a note naming the publications by Galt and a partial letter with questions and answers about the activities of the insane.