Abbot, Marion Wetherill. Letter to Violet Oakley regarding a mural at Pennsylvania Hospital, 1921 March 20

ABBOTT, Marion Wetherill (Mrs. E. Stanley Abbott). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Philadelphia, March 20, 1921. Five page letter on leaves measuring approx. 7 x 5”. Mrs. Abbott was the wife of the psychiatrist, E. Stanley Abbott. She here writes to Violet Oakley (1874-1961), the American muralist, illustrator, and stained glass artist. Abbott discusses the donation of an autograph poem by Silas Weir Mitchell to the Insane Department of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and asks Miss Oakley if she would consider executing a mural on the wall where Mitchell’s poem was to hang. In her letter, Abbott copies the full text of the poem, which was dedicated to nurses. She also mentions Dr. Owen Copp, the administrator of the Hospital receiving the donation and a president of the American Psychiatric Association.