HOLLOWAY PRISON IN 1897

Autograph Letter Signed by the Medical Officer, James Scott, also signed by J. M. Pitcairn, Deputy Medical Officer to Mr Adam Hay “on the occasion of your retiring into private life, after having spent nearly half a century in the service of the Queen, we, who have been associated with you in the Medical Department of Holloway Prison, feel that we cannot let you go from among us without an expression of our good wishes. We hope you will be spared yet for many years, to enjoy your well-earned rest after so many years of faithful service. We ask you to accept from us a few volumes, as a remembrance. The subject of the books is the Indian Mutiny, one of the stirring events in which you took an active part. We hope you will find interest in perusing them, and that they will recall, in a pleasant manner, an important part of your military service...”, 1 side folio, Parkhurst Road, Holloway, 1st August

Holloway prison was opened in 1852 as a mixed-sex prison, but due to growing demand for space for female prisoners, particularly due to the closure of Newgate, it became female-only in 1903. Before the First World War, Holloway was used to imprison those suffragettes who broke the law. These included Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Davison, Constance Markievicz (also imprisoned for her part in the Irish Rebellion), Charlotte Despard, Mary Richardson, Dora Montefiore, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, and Ethel Smyth.

Item Date:  1897

Stock No:  43034      £125

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