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Dorothea Dix

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MEMORIAL, TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Gentlemen,

I respectfully ask to present this Memorial, believing that the cause, which . . . sanctions so unusual a movement, presents no equivocal claim to public consideration and sympathy. Surrendering to calm and deep convictions of duty my habitual views of what is womanly and becoming, I proceed briefly to explain what has conducted me before you unsolicited and unsustained, trusting, while I do so, that the memorialist will be speedily forgotten in the memorial.

About two years since leisure afforded opportunity, and duty prompted me to visit several prisons and alms-houses in the vicinity of this metropolis. I . . . [Full Text]

Springfield.
Northampton.
Williamsburg.
Rutland.
Sterling.
Burlington.
Concord.
Lincoln.
Medford.
Pepperell.
Brookfield.
Granville.