Letters sent to Governor Forney Johnston regarding Miss A. M. Sheffield, a patient desiring removal from the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa.
Most of the letters were written by Sheffield herself, often accompanied by a note to Superintendent J. T. Searcy urging him to "Please send this letter out." Sheffield had been committed to the institution for arson, a crime she considers more worthy of the penitentiary than the asylum. A...
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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/26648 |
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