The Letter Box

The journal focuses on the issues of hydrotherapy and dress reform. Harriet Newell Austin, graduated from the American Hydropathic Institute, established by Thomas Low Nichols and Mary Gove Nichols in 1851. While working as a physician at a water cure sanitarium in Owasco, New York she formed a professional relationship with James Caleb Jackson, who ran the Glen Haven Water Cure where Austin joined him to manage the treatment of female patients. She would go on to become his business partner and editor of the journal, The Laws of Life and Journal of Health, which continued their periodical The Letter Box. With Jackson, she was founder of the National Dress Reform Association in 1856.

Continued as:

The Laws of Life: A Family Health Journal / Woman’s Health Journal. Ed. Harriet N. Austin & James Caleb Jackson. Dansville, N.Y.: Sanatorium Publishing Company, 1860 - 1894.