• HOME
• THE LANGUAGE OF MADNESS
• THE ASYLUM
• • Asylum Design
  • Patient Buildings
• SOCIETY
• • Urban & Rural Life
  • Class & Gender
  • The Hysterical Female
  • The Evils of "Self-Abuse"
  • Family
  • Visitors
• LEGISLATION
• • Legislative Influence
  • Origins of Legislation and the Criminality of Insanity
  • Teenaged Years: Marked Custody Transition
  • Turn of the Century: Voluntary Admissions
  • Updated Act: The Mental Hospital Act
• SUPERINTENDANTS
• STAFF
• • Working at the LAI
  • Hiring Practices
  • Rules for Employees
  • Employee Roles in Moral Therapy
  • Doctors at LAI
  • Doctor Connections to UWO
  • Training School for Nurses
  • Attendants
  • General Staff
• PATIENT PERSPECTIVES
• • Introduction
  • Patient Art
  • Patient Letters
  • Their Voice
• MEDICAL TREATMENTS
• • Medical Treatment Introduction
  • Use of Restraints
  • Drug and Alcohol
  • Hydrotherapy
  • Female Surgeries
  • Neurosyphilis
  • Shock Therapy
  • Lobotomies
• MORAL THERAPY
• • Moral Therapy Introduction
  • Labour
  • Amusements
  • Diet
  • Religion
• THE WORLD WARS
• • Before the First World War
  • During the First World War
  • After the First World War
  • The First World War and the LAI
  • First World War Veterans at the LAI
  • The Second World War
• MEMORIES OF RMHCL
• • Introduction
  • Their Memories

Primary Sources Bibliography

Primary Bibliography   |   Secondary Bibliography

Archival Sources

Western Archives, Archives and Research Collections Centre, University of Western Ontario

Annual announcement of the Medical Dept. of the Western University, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Medicine, Years 1901-1945

Coronation Souvenir Commemorating the Historic Ceremonies Attending the Inauguration of the Reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. London: Lawson & Jones Ltd., 1953.

Edwin Seaborn Fonds,

London and its Men of Affairs.

London Postcard Collection

Annual Report on Asylums, Prisons and Public Charities, Report of the Superintendent for the London Insane Asylum,1869-1925.

Faculty of Nursing Fonds

J.J.Talman Regional Collection

Laundryman and Attendant at Asylum London,William H. England fonds, 1892-1918

London Psychiatric Hospital. (Pamphlet celebrating 100 years) Forward by R. C. Hansen, 1971.

Ontario Hospital School of Nursing Yearbook. London: 1930.

Prominent People of the Province of Ontario in Business and Professional Life. Ottawa: Canadian Biographies Ltd., 1925.

Bursar at the London Asylum for the Insane and his work in Drama and Choir Clubs, Diaries of Dr. Charles Augustus Sippi, 1893-1897

The Ontario Medical Register. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 1928.

The Published Ontario Medical Register. Toronto: The Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, 1954.

Archives of Ontario

A student transcription of the Records from the Archives of Ontario, Reference Code RG 10-282, Records of the Medical Superintendent of the London Psychiatric Hospital, Microfilm Reel MS 856 Reel 19, Patients Outgoing Letters. Records were found on site at the Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Ivey Family London Room, London Public Library

London Free Press and Daily Western Advertiser.

Seaborn Collection, Scrapbook.

Seaborn Collection, Reminiscences.

Published Primary Sources Bibliography

Bucke, Richard Maurice. An Episode in the Life of R.M.B. In The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, compiled by Cyril Greenland and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1997.

Bucke, Richard Maurice. Books That Have Influenced Me. In The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, compiled by Cyril Greenland and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1997.

Bucke, Richard Maurice. Notes for Life (1897). In The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, compiled by Cyril Greenland and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1997.

Bucke, Richard Maurice. The Saguenay. In The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, compiled by Cyril Greenland and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1997.

Bucke, Richard Maurice. The Value of the Study of Medicine. In The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, compiled by Cyril Greenland and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1997.

Bucke, Richard Maurice. Twenty-five Years Ago. In The New Consciousness: Selected Papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, compiled by Cyril Greenland and John Robert Colombo. Toronto: Colombo and Company, 1997.

Bucke, Richard Maurice. Two Hundred Operative Cases - Insane Women. (From the proceedings of the American Medico-Physiological Association at the 56th Annual Meeting held in Richmond, Virginia May 22-25 1900).

Jellet, Henry. A Short Practice of Gynaecology. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1903.

Dietary Report, November 15, 1912. Hospital for Insane, London, Regional Mental Health Care Teaching Museum.

The Newspaper Reference Book of Canada. Toronto: The Press Publishing Company Ltd., 1903.

Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Lunatic and Idiot Asylums of the Province of Ontario. Toronto: Warwick Bro's & Rutter, Printers, 1902.

Sessional Papers, Asylum for the Insane, London (no.8) 1878.

Sessional Papers, Asylum for the Insane, London (no.8) 1879.

Sessional Papers, Asylum for the Insane, London (no.8) 1880.

Newspapers

Obituary of Dr. Landor. The Daily Free Press and Daily Western Advertiser, January 1877.

Obituary of Dr. Archibald McCausland. St. Thomas Times Journal, 7 September 1974.

Web Pages

Obituary of Dr. Wickware. Western News, June 2007, http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/in_memoriam:_philip_j._linden_20080710442499/

Obituary of Dr. Wickware. Queen's University Quarter Century Club, September 2007, http://www.qcclub.gov.on.ca.