Produced by Petra A and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES. Unusual and inconsistent spelling, grammar and punctuation have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected and the text has been changed according to the errata listed at the end of the published text. _Underscores_ are used to represent italics. Small capitals have been converted to all capitals. The table of contents was added by the transcriber.] A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH T. STONE, AND OF HER PERSECUTIONS, WITH AN APPENDIX OF HER _TREATMENT AND SUFFERINGS_ WHILE IN THE CHARLESTOWN McLEAN ASSYLUM, WHERE SHE WAS CONFINED UNDER THE PRETENCE OF INSANITY. 1842: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE. 3 REMARKS. 33 CLOSING REMARKS TO CHRISTIANS. 37 ERRATA. 42 PREFACE. Feeling that the public is very much deceived concerning the treatment and situation of a poor afflicted class of the human family, who are placed in the McLean Assylum at Charlestown, by their relatives, and are left in the hands of strangers, subjected to the treatment of those whose hearts are hardened by being long accustomed to human suffering, and who are ignorant and unqualified, I will expose this matter to the public, in behalf of the afflicted, in connection with the _awful, brutal outrage_ that has been committed upon me in consequence of indisposition resulting from hard labor and persecution, so the public may be warned against placing their friends there, especially if they would not have them ill-treated or suffer unnecessarily.