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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, Charles McCool, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874.

Fillmore, Millard.

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.

Dix, Dorothea Lynde.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1975.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Afterword; Chronology; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6457-5