37“I have picked”： George Packard, quoted by EP, PHL, 42.
38“Come, George,”： TP, quoted by EP, ibid., 42–43.
39“winter of perpetual”： Kankakee Gazette, article reproduced in “The Case of Mrs. Packard,” Chicago Tribune, ?January 28, 1864.
40“gleam”： Witness for the defense in EP’s 1886 libel suit against AM, Elizabeth P. W. Packard v. Andrew McFarland et al., suit filed May 10, 1886, Kankakee Circuit Court, Kankakee, Illinois, quoted in Linda V. Carlisle, Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight （Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010）， 191.
41“stranger gentleman”： EP, MPE, 3.
CHAPTER 3
1“The ‘forms of’”： TP, quoted by EP, PHL, 43.
2“I am doing”： TP, quoted by EP, Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled, as Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois, vol. 1 （New York, 1873）， 53 （hereafter cited as MP1）。
3“so far deranged”： Parishioners’ petition, May 22, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 1, 1866.
4“by the request”： Clause 6, “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to establish the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane,’ in force March 1, 1847,” approved February 12, 1853, quoted in Reports of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, 1847–1862, Chicago: F. Fulton & Co., 1863, 390.
5“civilly dead”： Declaration of Sentiments, 1848, quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, 1:70.
6“The husband and”： Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, quoted in ibid., 1:738.
7“to deprive her”： Declaration of Sentiments, 1848, quoted in ibid., 1:70.
8“without the evidence”： Clause 10, “An act to amend the act establishing the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane,” approved February 15, 1851, in Reports of the Illinois, 386.
9“if the Medical”： Clause 6, Reports of the Illinois, 390.
10“I…have married”： EP, GD, 2:196.
11“If it had”： Ibid., 2:321.
12“[The] man to”： EP, MPE, 51.
CHAPTER 4
1Conversation between TP and EP: quoted by EP, MP1, 53–56.
2“deep emotion”： EP, PHL, 45.
3“most bland”： EP, MP1, 57.
4“Mr. Packard”： Ibid.
5“more and more”： EP, GD, 2:255.
6“business that God”： Ibid., 1:278.
7“to be…”： EP, in a self-written prayer said aloud to her family on June 14, 1860, as reported in the certificate of Sarah Rumsey, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 20, 1866.
8“holding on to”： EP, GD, 4:67.
9“A peace based”： Ibid., 2:72.
10“saddle-seat”： EP, PHL, 47.
11“stranger gentleman”： EP, MPE, 3.
12“imploringly and silently”： EP, PHL, 47.
13“silent and almost”： EP, MPE, 4.
14“like dead faith”： EP, GD, 2:133.
15“All the oppressor”： Ibid., 2:141–42.
16“The hungry wolf”： Ibid., 2:217–18.
17“You will not”： Isaac Simington, quoted by EP in “Mrs. Packard’s Address,” 3, in MPE, page 147 in PDF.
18“in a few”： EP, PHL, 75.
19“speedy liberation”： EP, printed appeal to members of the General Assembly, in “Wife Behind the Bars of a Madhouse,” Chicago Tribune, March 1, 1891.
20“I did not”： Isaac Blessing, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 35.
21“double-minded” and following quotation: EP, GD, 2:150.
22“Is there no”： Rebecca Blessing, quoted in EP, PHL, 47.
23“to guard against”： Ibid., 48.
24“O!”： Ibid.
25“deep gush”： Ibid.
26“almost unceasingly”： Ibid., 50.
CHAPTER 5
1“awe both deep”： AM, “The Better Way,” 18.
2“chilling sense”： Ibid.
3“only the best”： Gilbert Alden Tolman, “Randolph Reminiscences,” Randolph Register and News, February 15, 1902.
4“mental labor”： EP’s “supposed cause” of insanity, “Fourth Report of the Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, from December 1st, 1835, to November 30th, 1836, inclusive,” in Reports and Other Documents Relating to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, Massachusetts （Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1837）， 145.