The lady and the president : the letters of Dorothea Dix & Millard Fillmore / Charles M. Snyder.

By:

Snyder, Charles McCool [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813164571
0813164575

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E427

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Contents:

1. Beginnings -- 2. Millard Fillmore -- Early Years -- 3. Dorothea Dix -- Early Years -- 4. Getting Together, 1850-1853 -- 5. Tragedies and Adjustments, 1853-1854 -- 6. Rendezvous in Europe, 1854-1856 -- 7. Rejection and Acceptance, 1856-1858 -- 8. Growing Apart, 1858-1869 -- 9. Later Years.

Summary: When the private papers of Millard Fillmore, thought to have been destroyed in 1889, were discovered they proved to include a large number of letters to Fillmore from Dorothea Dix, the renowned crusader for the humane treatment of the insane. Almost simultaneously, the letters of Fillmore to Dix, which had lain forgotten in a private collection since 1887, became available. Thus overnight a correspondence of more than a hundred and fifty letters, spanning nearly twenty years, opened new perspectives upon two prominent Americans whose friendship was known to few during their lifetimes and had lo.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book	G. Allen Fleece Library Online	Non-fiction	E427 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900345311

Includes bibliographies and index.

When the private papers of Millard Fillmore, thought to have been destroyed in 1889, were discovered they proved to include a large number of letters to Fillmore from Dorothea Dix, the renowned crusader for the humane treatment of the insane. Almost simultaneously, the letters of Fillmore to Dix, which had lain forgotten in a private collection since 1887, became available. Thus overnight a correspondence of more than a hundred and fifty letters, spanning nearly twenty years, opened new perspectives upon two prominent Americans whose friendship was known to few during their lifetimes and had lo.