Talk:Julia Sand

A fact from Julia Sand appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 June 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Julia Sand, a pen pal of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, might have had significant impact on his presidency?

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New sources provide background on Sand's later years

Two posts to the Library of Congress's website provide more background on Sands. In particular, note should be made of her declining years, which were spent in asylums in New York State. She apparently suffered a nervous breakdown in 1886, which was attributed to her witnessing the drowning death of a paramour "three years earlier". This would also explain her life as a shut-in during the period she corresponded with Arthur. I do intend to get back to this, but in the meantime, all are free to flesh out whatever details the new sources provide. Allreet (talk) 18:28, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]