TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snyder,Charles McCool
TI  - The lady and the president: the letters of Dorothea Dix & Millard Fillmore 
SN  - 9780813164571
AV  - E427 .L339 1975
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Fillmore, Millard,
KW  - Dix, Dorothea Lynde,
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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