Letters sent to Governor Forney Johnston regarding Minnie Howe, a patient desiring removal from the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa.
In the first letter, Howe asks the governor to investigate the circumstances of her committal: "I am incarcerated in the Alabama insane asylum I am sane and have never been insane my relatives bribed a doctor in Huntsville to write and insane certificate to put me in the asylum to keep me from...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/26646 |
