Galt Papers (II)

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Galt Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Summary

Extent:
12.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Galt, John Minson, 1819-1862 and Galt family
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Galt Papers (II), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Background

Scope and content:

Papers, 1840-1862, of John M. Galt II concerning his work at the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence, reports, clinical notes, medical diaries, financial papers, and printed material.

Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings were added to the collection in 2011 and are in Box 17. The subject matter is mental health with topics such as insanity, murder, suicide and criminal behavior. Some clippings are about Eastern State Hospital (Virginia Lunatic Asylum) and other asylums. Headlines include "The Maniac and the Infant" and "Unfortunate and Melancholy Occurances." Loose papers include Doc. No. 30 "General Table of Patients in the Eastern Asylum...1844;" circular about "Virginia Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, Va.;" a 1860 permission slip to visit the Eastern Lunatic Asylum; 1858 letter from Butler Hospital about a lecture; book plates of mammals, fish and insects; hand drawn horse's head; a page with attached items: newspaper article on women, a bird, a hand painted drawing of a woman and a handpainted drawing of Eastern State Hospital; two pencil rubbings of plants; a note naming the publications by Galt and a partial letter with questions and answers about the activities of the insane.

For a detailed box and folder inventory of this collection, plus digitalized images from the collection, please see the On-line Images/Records section below.

Miscellaneous: receipts, notes, correspondence, stock certificates, including material relating to John Minson Galt II's administration of his father's estate

Financial, Education, Poetry

Letters

John M. Galt II letter accepting appointment as Supt. Eastern Lunatic Asylum

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers

Medical notes, papers, regarding Eastern Asylum

Temperance Pledges

Administration

Legislature

Article, American Journal of Insanity

Statistical information regarding patients

Medical diary

Medical diary

Medical diary

Medical diary

Medical diary

Medical diary

Medical diary

Medical diary

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Clinical notes

Notes from Record Book of the hospital, 1771-1841

Eastern Asylum draft of report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Notes for Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Reports

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Eastern Asylum Report

Reports

Papers regarding Case of Commonwealth v. James A. Graham

Papers regarding Case of Commonwealth v. James A. Graham

Legal Documents; Writs and Summonses

Ideas on Insanity and Medicine

Lists of Male and Female Patients from the Origin of the Institution; Notes Concerning administration of Eastern Lunatic Asylum.

Drafts of Letters from J.M. Galt II

Drafts of Letters from J.M. Galt II

Drafts of Letters from J.M. Galt II

Barziza, Philip J. Correspondence

Dix, Dorothea L. Letters to John Minson Galt II

Ewell, Benjamin S. letter

Gibson, Churchill Jones letter

Goode, John Branch letter

Preston, William Ballard letter

Saunders, Robert Correspondence

Letters to John Minson Galt II to Stribling, Francis T.

Sweeny, Talbot

Tyler, John letter

Letters to John Minson Galt II

Letters to John Minson Galt II.

Letters to John Minson Galt II.

Letters to John Minson Galt II.

Letters to John Minson Galt II.

Letters to John Minson Galt II.

Letters to John Minson Galt II.

Letters to John Minson Galt II A-L.

Letters to John Minson Galt II, M-R.

Letters to John Minson Galt II, T-Z, anonymous.

Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings added to the collection in 2011. The subject matter is mental health, covering topics such as insanity, murder, suicide, and criminal behavior. Some clippings pertain to Eastern State Hospital (Virginia Lunatic Asylum) and other asylums. Headlines include "The Maniac and the Infant" and "Unfortunate and Melancholy Occurances." Loose papers include Doc. No. 30 "General Table of Patients in the Eastern Asylum...1844"; also includes circular about "Virginia Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, Va."; a 1860 permission slip to visit the Eastern Lunatic Asylum; 1858 letter from Butler Hospital about a lecture; book plates of mammals, fish and insects; hand drawn horse's head; a page with attached items: newspaper article on women, a bird, a hand-painted drawing of a woman and a hand-painted drawing of Eastern State Hospital; two pencil rubbings of plants; a note naming the publications by Galt and a partial letter with questions and answers about the activities of the insane.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. John Minson Galt was the superintendant of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia.