Hinman Bigelow Letters: Crazy Ted Bigelow (11 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 11 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow writes his angriest letter yet! It really makes you wonder what his mother said to him! Not surprisingly, he spent some time at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia just a few years later in 1923. His mental health was examined, but their verdict was simply an ungovernable temper.

Be sure to check out the scans, you can see the anger in his handwriting. His rage increasing with each sentence he wrote.

March 11th

Mrs. George A. Bigelow,

I received your most insulting letter and I paid the doctors bill.

I don't think I want to come to Atlantic City if you are there, but I would like to see Sister and Aunt Hattie. I won't stay penned up in this prison all vacation with the fellows gone. I need a relaxation, the doctor told me so!

So you send me the $30 to leave here not later than March 21st!

I am keeping that letter you wrote so I will have something to show concerning my mental condition. Tell people letters of such a kind drove me to it.

I absolutely must have a vacation after this awful routine and no society, down town only two hours a day and I have guard and can't go down. Also I will endeavor to show any doctor which you examine my head some of the reasons for which I may be mentally upset.

Sister has written she wants to see me and I have other friends so send the money. I promise I won't come see you under any circumstances.

$30!

I have means of getting it if you don't send. So send before March 21st!

[Crazy] Ted Bigelow

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