Sons and parents

[RJNorton]

On May 10, 1875, John Stuart wrote RTL a letter. One sentence of the letter was as follows:

"I am not so sure about the necessity of personal restraint but is it not probable that if a conservator were appointed that she would consent to remain at some private hospital?"

So I believe it was John Stuart who may have first suggested to RTL that Mary could be placed in a private facility rather than the Cook County Hospital or the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane (either of which RTL originally had desired based on the wording of his "Application to try the question of insanity"). Dr. Patterson expressed his willingness to accept her at Bellevue.