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From: "MARIANNE SOMMER" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Clapham Common?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:05:32 -0400 (EDT)


Dear Liz, yes, I know that it is, but there might have been an asylum with the
same name (close to the common).
Best, Marianne

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:02:01 +0000, "Liz Parkinson" wrote:

> Clapham Common is a large piece of common land in Clapham,
>
> Liz
>
>
> >From: "MARIANNE SOMMER" <>
> >Reply-To:
> >To:
> >Subject: [UK-W&H] Clapham Common?
> >Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >Dear members of the UK-Workhouse-Hospitals list,
> >I am looking for information on an asylum called Clapham Common. I found
> >nothing
> >on it on your website but there was a reference to a Clapham Retreat. Could
> >this be the same? I have been informed that the geologist William Buckland
> >did
> >not die at his country home, as has long been thought, but in this asylum
> >(he
> >died 1856). However, in order to include this in the entry I am writing for
> >a
> >dictionary of scientific personae, I first need some additional
> >information.
> >I am grateful for any hints that could help me find out more.
> >Thanks in advance, Marianne Sommer
> >Marianne Sommer PhD
> >NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
> >Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture Program
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> >
> >
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Marianne Sommer PhD
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture Program
Weaver Building
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 8148637303


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