Transcript from the Visitors Book of The Retreat
EARLY AMERICAN VISITORS
1803. 3 mon 11th. Abrm. Barker, New Bedford, Massachusits, a young man (a Friend) on a tour; has been in Russia, Denmark, Sweden & Holland. (In William Tuke's writing)
1815. Nov. 30. John W. Francis, M.D. of N. York. J.W. Francis is not wholly ignorant of the State of the Lunatic Asylums in North America, and he has visited almost all the institutions for the Insane that are established in England. He now embraces this opportunity of stating that after an examination of the Retreat for some hours, he should do injustice to his feelings were he not to declare that this establishment far surpasses anything of the kind he has elsewhere seen, and that it reflects equal credit on the wisdom and humanity of its conductors.
Perhaps it is no inconsiderable honour to add that institutions of a similar nature and on the same plan are organizing in different parts of the United States. The New World cannot do better than imitate the old so far as concerns the management of those who labour under mental infirmities. J.W.F.
1816. 1 Mon 4. Sharon Carter, Philadelphia.
1816. 1 mon. Wm. S. Warder, from Philadelphia.
1816. 2 mon 21. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, who visits Europe for the purpose of qualifying himself to superintend an Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, proposed to be established in Hartford, Connecticut, of the United States of America.
1816. 4 mon 8th. Archibald Gracie, Junr., New York.
1816. April 29th. George F. Randolph, Philadelphia. John Hastings, Baltimore.
1816. 6 mon 19th. Charles Longstreth, from Philadelphia.
1816. 6 mon 19th. Jacob Smedley, from Philadelphia.
1817. 7 mon. Henry Kollock, of Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Wm. Parker, Savannah. G.C. Versslanchi, of New York.
1817. 11/24. Hannah Field, North America, with Elizabeth Fry.
1817. 12 Mo. G.J. Browne, United States of America (Cincinnati).
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