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).

[Illustration:  [HANDWRITING:  Thy Assured Friend, Thomas Eddy]

In 1815 Thomas Eddy, one of the Governors of the Society of the New York Hospital, presented a communication in which he advocated the establishment in the country of a branch for the moral treatment of the insane.  This led to the establishment of Bloomingdale Asylum.]

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 20:  Bloomingdale Hospital Press.]

APPENDIX II

A LETTER ON PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUMS[21]