Mary Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis

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Date created 1849-1850
Creator Townsend, Mary, 1814-
Description

Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. She has been ill for some time and has been attended by many doctors. She tells Lewis of a new physician who has been treating her, a woman named Miriam De Bonneville, and discusses the treatments De Bonneville uses. She also discusses Fredrika Bremer's travels in the United States, mentions a school that Lewis has been working at, and talks of paranormal phenomena reported at Rochester. The letter also includes several pages written in pencil by someone else, possibly Lewis's brother-in-law Dr. Edwin Fussell.

Size 12 pages
Type Text
Subjects Women physicians | Animal magnetism | Magnetic healing | Homeopathy | Death | Health | Spiritualism | Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865
Geographical location Philadelphia (Pa.)
Language English
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Local identifier A00179498
Collection

Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, SFHL-RG5-087 (explore contents)

Contributing institution Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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