63“Why do you”： EP, TE, 109.
64“To…be false”： EP, MPE, 74.
65“withdrawn from conversation”： Advice of Dr. Christopher Knott of what EP needed at this time, from Knott’s evidence at the trial, quoted in Stephen R. Moore, “The Great Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth P. W. Packard” （hereafter cited as GT） in MPE, 18.
66“kept from observers”： EP, GD, 1:331.
CHAPTER 2
1“every motion”： SO, MO, 13, in PHL, page 367 in PDF.
2“As soon as”： AM, “The Better Way, or Considerations Upon the Natural System of Providing for the Treatment of the Insane,” standalone pamphlet publication, originally extracted from the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal 1872: 29.
3“There still lingers”： AM, in Ninth Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville （Springfield, IL, 1864）， 13.
4“crushing scrutiny”： SO, MO, 13, in PHL, page 367 in PDF.
5“Whatever I say”： EP, MPE, 75.
6“an instinctive aversion”： EP, PHL, 66.
7“angry…and showed”： Sarah Rumsey, court testimony, GT, in MPE, 29.
8“dislike to her”： Mrs. F. E. Dickson, affidavit, August 21, 1862, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.
9“derangement of mind”： Ibid.
10“to feel indifferent”： Nineteenth-century book, quoted in Rachelle Bergstein, “The Beauty Routine of a Victorian Woman Was Anything But Glamorous,” New York Post, October 23, 2016, https://nypost.com/2016/10/23/the-beauty-routine-of-a-victorian-woman-was-anything-but-glamorous/.
11“ungovernable”： Dr. John Conolly, A Remonstrance with the Lord Chief Baron Touching the Case Nottidge versus Ripley, 3rd ed. （London: John Churchill, 1849）， 9.
12“more than usual”： F. C. Skey, Hysteria: Remote Causes of Disease in General. Treatment of Diseases by Tonic Agency. Local Or Surgical Forms of Hysteria, Etc. （London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1867）， 55.
13“of strong resolution”： Ibid.
14“to have her”： Parishioners’ petition, May 22, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 1, 1866.
15“Just think”： EP, GD, 1:230–31.
16“Such a pack”： Ibid., 2:18.
17“suffocating and choking”： EP, PHL, 178.
18“earnest conversation”： Ibid., 39.
19“[I will] talk”： EP’s declaration, as recounted by Sybil Dole, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 26.
20“They will have”： EP’s children, quoted by EP, PHL, 39.
21“tender-hearted and devoted”： Ibid., 40.
22“a mild”： EP, letter to Fidelia Fiske, March 3, 1846, Shelburne Free Public Library Fidelia Fiske Collection, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA.
23“wholly unfounded”： Isaac Packard, letter of endorsement for EP, April 12, 1869, in EP, Modern Persecution, or Married Woman’s Liabilities, as Demonstrated by the Action of the Illinois Legislature, vol. 2 （Hartford, CT, 1874）， 376 （hereafter cited as MP2）。
24“She went from”： Deacon Charles A. Spring, affidavit, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 1, 1866.
25“aroused a rabid”： TP, TPD, 40 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
26“That woman endured”： Isaac Blessing, quoted by EP, TE, 101.
27“quack”： TP, TPD, 40 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
28“I must first”： Isaac Packard, quoted by EP, PHL, 42.
29“too noble”： EP, GD, 2:160.
30“gentle respectful attentions”： Ibid., 2:145.
31“could look up”： Ibid., 2:178.
32“right of disposal”： Isaac Ray, “American Legislation on Insanity,” AJOI 21 （July 1864）： 49–50.
33“The insane were”： Myra Samuels Himelhoch and Arthur H. Shaffer, “Elizabeth Packard: Nineteenth-Century Crusader for the Rights of Mental Patients,” Journal of American Studies 13, no. 3 （December 1979）： 345, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875800007404.
34“only available means”： EP, PHL, 99.
35“into written form”： EP, MPE, 33.
36“a thorough”： EP, “Mrs. Packard’s Address to the Illinois Legislature,” 2, in MPE, page 146 in PDF.