14“my counselor”: EP, TE, 118.
15“a most noble”: Ibid., 101.
16“proper values”: “Mental Hospital Reform,” 1, Barbara Sapinsley Papers.
17“therapeutic intervention”: Michel Foucault, Mental Illness and Psychology, trans. Alan Sheridan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), 71.
18“quiet, decorous”: Dr. John Conolly, Treatment of the Insane Without Mechanical Restraints (1856; repr. London: Dawsons, 1973), 127–28.
19“Self-defense forbids”: EP, TE, 74.
20“I have done”: EP, GD, 2:351.
21“Old Packard will”: Ibid., 1:151.
22“I think it”: EP, PHL, 65.
23“model wife”: AM, in “Packard Insanity Case.”
24“impregnable, invincible fortress”: EP, PHL, 285.
25“mere emotional impulses”: AM, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 88.
26“hardly deserve”: Ibid.
27“intellectual impairment”: Ibid., 91.
28“fine mind”: AM, letter to TP, August 11, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.
29“interesting study”: Ibid.
30“made comfortable”: Dr. J. Sanbourne Bockoven, Moral Treatment in American Psychiatry (New York: Springer, 1963), 12.
31“feelings of tranquillity”: EP, MK, 58.
32“permeated into”: Ibid.
33“my kind friend”: EP, TE, 112.
34“your faithful Eva”: EP, “My Reproof to Dr. McFarland for his Abuse of his Patients,” MP1, 136.
35“extraordinary tact”: “Andrew McFarland,” Biographical and Portrait Album of Morgan and Scott Counties (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1889), 303.
36“intimate and effective”: AM, “Attendants in Institutions for the Insane,” AJOI 17 (July 1860): 54.
37“a self-control”: L. M. Glover, in “Hospital for the Insane,” Jacksonville Journal, December 19, 1867.
38“one of his”: EP, GD, 1:189.
39“took possession”: EP, MK, 57.
40“dare[d] not come”: EP, TE, 97.
41“manly protector”: Repeated references throughout EP’s books, including EP, MK, 95.
42“[I] do so”: EP, GD, 4:76.
43“buds of hope”: EP, MK, 57.
44“kindred spirit[s]”: EP, GD, 1:189.
45“O, how I”: EP, MPE, 96.
46“base charges”: EP, MK, 60.
47“order and system”: Ibid., 59.
48“Go with”: EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 128.
49“It is of”: Ibid., 129.
50“hallucinations”: EP, MK, 60.
51“silent eye”: EP, TE, 117.
CHAPTER 11
1“ignorant of all”: EP, TE, 117.
2“system of compulsory”: SO, MO, 95, in PHL, page 449 in PDF.
3“Their rules”: Phebe B. Davis, Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica (1855), in Jeffrey L. Geller and Maxine Harris, Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 1994), 57.
4“You mustn’t cry”: Attendants quoted by EP, GD, 2:214.
5“It is always”: Dr. Isaac Ray, “Doubtful Recoveries,” AJOI 20 (July 1863): 37.
6“lingering spark”: Ibid., 39.
7“as hard to”: EP, GD, 4:26.
8“grieving and talking”: Ibid., 1:302.
9“We must seem”: Caroline E. Lake, “Testimony of Mrs. Caroline E. Lake, of Aurora, Ill.,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 141, in PHL, page 495 in PDF.
10“being violent”: Testimony of Dr. W. Ward to the Select Committee, Commissioners in Lunacy on Bethlem Hospital, July 7, 1851, in Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers, 6:271, quoted in Showalter, Female Malady, 81.
11“silently and meekly”: EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 121.
12“confidant”: EP, MPE, 96.
13“did not listen”: Testimony of John Henry, former steward of the Illinois State Hospital, Report of the Investigating Committee (1867), 42.
14“indifferent when complaints”: Ibid.
15“We are free”: EP, GD, 2:55.
16“These two dear”: EP, MK, 42.
17“with all the”: EP, MPE, 127.
18“tower of strength”: EP, MK, 44.
19“Mother”: Toffy Packard, quoted by EP, MPE, 128 [italics added].