• 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

"you are a conquered enemy"		"her eyes are like the dew drope[sic]"
	"this is the eighth day since you were here"
"A short time since only did I become aware of your ... existence"		"my heart is almos [sic] broken down to stay away from your home"
	"I have come to my senses some"
"I am detained here in Prision..."		"I wish some of you would come and take me out for a visit"
	"Now I await a formal Surrender"
"We the undersigned pray you In consideration"		"dont forget me anyhow no matter what you do"
	"I beg to Inform you I got Into trouble with the man I was working for"
"Brother i now... [w]rite to you that the time must come when you must die..."		"take my trunk to me"
	"i dont know why they should keep me here any longer it was a plot..."

The transcriptions which appear are not authorized transcriptions from the Ontario Archives, but rather transcriptions produced by the 2009 Public History program at the University of Western Ontario.