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Robert K. Reid letters : State Asylum, Stockton, Calif., to John Y. Lind, [San Francisco, Calif.], 1854.
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Robert K. Reid letters: State Asylum, Stockton, Calif., to John Y. Lind, [San Francisco, Calif.], 1854Creator/Contributor:
Reid, Robert K., b. 1825?, creator, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Lind, John Y., b. 1820?, correspondent.Abstract:
Two handwritten letters of a personal nature from Robert K. Reid, the superintendent the state asylum, to his cousin containing
references to the cool relationship between them and some details of Reid's recent financial difficulties.
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1854 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caReid, Robert K -- b. 1825? -- Correspondence
Lind, John Y -- b. 1820? -- Correspondence
Asylum for the Insane of the State of California.
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Robert K. Reid letters : State Asylum, Stockton, Calif., to John Y. Lind [San Francisco, Calif.], 1854, BANC MSS 2012/47,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Robert K. Reid and his cousin, John Y. Lind, were physicians from a family of South Carolina plantation owners. Robert K.
Reid was appointed the first superintendent of the state mental hospital in Stockton, California. John Y. Lind was elected
the first state assemblyman and state senator of Calaveras County, California.
In English.
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English