James Crichton Browne - SIGNED Letter
203 x 124 mm \n \nA fine SIGNED autograph from James Critchton Browne, undated, written and signed in black ink on personalised ivory paper -45 Hans Place, SW1Tel No. 4938 Kensington - with two horizontal creases, paper folded in half, with two small spots to paper and small ink stain to lower edge of front page, three small patches of adhesive residue to verso. \n \nIn full: Yours very faithfully James Crichton Browne \n \nJames Crichton-Browne (18401938) was a British psychiatrist, neurologist, and medical reformer. He was superintendent of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, where he advanced scientific study of mental illness. Crichton-Browne collaborated with Charles Darwin, providing research that influenced Darwins work on human emotion. He later became Lord Chancellors Visitor in Lunacy. A prolific writer and lecturer, he helped modernise Victorian approaches to psychiatry and neurological medicine.
