Letter from Mark Antony Haskell Niles to Nahum Capen

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Mark Antony Haskell Niles to Nahum Capen
Description:
At the time this letter was written, Nahum Capen (1804-1886) was the corresponding secretary of the Boston Phrenological Society which he had helped to establish after the death of J. G. Spurzheim. He was also a member of Marsh, Capen and Lyon, a prominent publishing house of phrenological works, and wrote Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe (1881), a historical survey of the first years of the phrenological movement. Nahum Capen had a wide correspondence with other devotees of phrenology in the United States and abroad; this letter from M.A.H. Niles, a member of the faculty of St. Stanislaus College in Indiana, shows the appeal of phrenology to the general public. For a transcription of this letter, please see here. A letter from Mark Antony Haskell Niles to Nahum Capen, the corresponding secretary of the Boston Phrenological Society.
Creator:
Niles, M. A. H.
Contributor:
Capen, Nahum (recipient)
Date:
February 20, 1836
Format:
Documents
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Capen, Nahum papers, 1783-1885 (inclusive), 1826-1885 (bulk). B MS c23
Papers of Nahum Capen, 1783-1885 (inclusive), 1826-1885 (bulk). B MS c23, box 2
Series:
Capen, Nahum papers, 1783-1885 (inclusive), 1826-1885 (bulk). B MS c23
Subjects:
Phrenology
Niles, M. A. H. (Mark Antony Haskell)
Capen, Nahum, 1804-1886
Boston Phrenological Society
Correspondence
Extent:
1 letter
Link to Item:
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Language:
English
Notes:
Gift of Nahum Capen to the Boston Medical Library, 1884