DAVID MAGIE: "EDWARD WAS TAKEN TO THE INSANE ASYLU

DAVID MAGIE (1795-1865) Educator, Presbyterian clergyman, and author. As director of the American Tract Society, he published his own "The Spring-Time of Life or, Advice to Youth" (1855) and his Civil War tract,"The Citizen Soldier." Autograph Letter Signed. Elizabeth town (N.J.), November 22 1853. One page. 8"x10". The pious author writes to his brother requesting assistance regarding a young boy committed to the Insane Asylum: "…You will recollect with interest the family of one of my elders Mr. Crane the cashier of our bank some years ago. Last week his son Edward was taken to the Lunatic Asylum in your city for on number years he has been losing his mind, until at Length it was done … can you take the trouble to see him and write on how he appears / you will find him mild and quiet … No particular symptoms of mental alienation - but he is crazy- What brought it on I can hardly say-probably some love disappointment may have been an exciting cause…his mother you know is a widow, and is in reduced circumstances… David Magie" In Fine condition.