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Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 0266921760ISBN 13: 9780266921769
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 78 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
Verlag: St. James's Square London. 5 April, 1796
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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1p., 4to. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to revese of second leaf, which is endorsed '5. April 1796 | Duke of Leeds.' Folded twice. Reads 'Dear Sir. | The Duke of Rutland & some of his friends being desirous of seeing Bethlem Hospital, I shall be much obliged to you for an order of admittance for His Grace & his Company. | Believe me Dear Sir | very sincerely yours | Leeds.' Richard Clark (1739-1831) was Treasurer of the Royal Hospitals of Bethlem and Bridewell. See his obituary in Gentleman's Magazine, February 1831, and entry in the Oxford DNB. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.