Broadmoor Revealed_ Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum - Mark Stevens [63]
The Council’s Chairman’s letter books (D/H14/A1/2/4/1-2)
Letters from Whitehall (D/H14/A1/2/5/1)
Annual reports (D/H14/A2/1/1/1)
Meyer’s journal (D/H14/A2/1/3/1)
Superintendent’s letter book (D/H14/A2/1/4/1)
Staff defaulter’s books (D/H14/B1/3/1/1-3)
Case files do not survive for every patient in this first part of the story. The ones that do are:
D/H14/D2/2/1/40: Richard Elcombe
D/H14/D2/2/1/179: Peter Waldie
D/H14/D2/2/1/186: Timothy Grundy
D/H14/D2/2/1/232: Patrick Lyndon
D/H14/D2/2/1/260: Richard or Thomas Walker
D/H14/D2/2/1/294: Peter O’Donnell
D/H14/D2/2/1/388: Cuthbert Rodham Carr
D/H14/D2/2/1/600: George Turner
D/H14/D2/2/1/617: James Bennett
D/H14/D2/2/1/791: John Thompson (1871 admission only)
D/H14/D2/2/1/1058: Thomas Douglas (1881 admission only)
D/H14/D2/2/2/65: Mary McBride
D/H14/D2/2/2/148: Alice Kaye
Patient case notes can be found in D/H14/D2/1/1-4 and D/H14/D2/1/2/1.
It is a similar position for the second part of the story, that connected with Orange’s time in charge. Here, the relevant references are:
Council of Supervision minutes (D/H14/A1/2/1/1-2)
The Council’s Chairman’s letter books (D/H14/A1/2/4/1-3)
Letters from Whitehall (D/H14/A1/2/5/1)
Annual reports (D/H14/A2/1/1/1)
Meyer’s journal (D/H14/A2/1/3/1)
Superintendents’ letter book (D/H14/A2/1/4/1)
Staff defaulters’ books (D/H14/B1/3/1/1-3)
The case files that survive are:
D/H14/D2/2/1/67: Thomas Cathie Wheeler
D/H14/D2/1/1/268: William Watkinson
D/H14/D2/2/1/404: John Batts
D/H14/D2/2/1/614: William Bisgrove
D/H14/D2/2/1/638: Henry Leest
D/H14/D2/2/1/640: Patrick Burke
D/H14/D2/2/1/659: Isaac Finch
D/H14/D2/2/1/747: Thomas Hart
D/H14/D2/2/1/1363: William Heaps alias Walter Arthurs
And patient case notes can be found in the same references as for part one above.
About the author
Mark Stevens is a professional archivist, currently working at the Berkshire Record Office in Reading.
He has been looking after the Broadmoor Hospital archive since 2004, and regularly speaks and writes about the subject.
Visit Mark’s Smashwords page at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/markstevens.
Table of Contents
Preface
Broadmoor Hospital: By Way of Introduction
Edward Oxford: Shooting at Royalty
Richard Dadd: Artist of Repute
William Chester Minor: Man of Words and Letters
Christiana Edmunds: The Venus of Broadmoor
Broadmoor Babies
Escape from Broadmoor
Only Passing Through
Sources
About the Author
Broadmoor Hospital: