31“He seemed determined”： Ibid.
32“Remember, Dr. McFarland”： EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 137.
33“presentiment of coming”： EP, PHL, 89.
34“put every article”： Ibid.
35“so cold that”： EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 128.
36“the almost monastic”： AM, in “Sixth Biennial Report,” 256.
37“neat and well-arranged”： AM, in “Fourth Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent, and Treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville: December 1854,” Reports of the Illinois, 176.
38“pleasing anticipation”： Ibid., 177.
39“soul-cheering doctrine”： EP, GD, 1:256.
40“most fetid scent”： EP, PHL, 90.
41“screaming, fighting”： Ibid.
42“rough, tangled”： Ibid., 95.
43“unfragrant puddles”： Ibid., 91.
44“to wade”： Ibid.
45“You may occupy”： AM, quoted by EP, PHL, 88.
PART TWO: DARK BEFORE THE DAWN
EPIGRAPHS
1“Much Madness is”： Emily Dickinson, “Much Madness is divinest Sense—（620），” The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition, ed. Ralph W. Franklin （Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998）。
2“She did not”： Obituary of Lucy Strong Parsons Ware, “Died,” Gazette and Courier, November 28, 1843.
CHAPTER 16
1“The maniac’s ward”： SO, MO, 33, in PHL, page 387 in PDF.
2Conversation between EP and Miss Tenney: Quoted by EP, PHL, 88.
3“except when the”： SO, MO, 37, in PHL, page 391 in PDF.
4“like wild beasts”： De Wolf, “Public Institutions.”
5“there was scarcely”： EP, PHL, 90.
6“mild and peaceful”： SO, MO, 36–37, in PHL, pages 390–91 in PDF.
7“fluttering bird”： EP, GD, 4:65.
8“She saw I”： Ibid.
9“Pray aloud!”： Bridget, quoted by EP, PHL, 111.
10“quiet, inoffensive”： EP, PHL, 110.
11“exclaiming with great”： Ibid., 111.
12“Let Dr. McFarland”： Bridget, quoted by EP, ibid.
13“human passions”： EP, ibid., 189.
14“O, my dear”： Jenny Haslett, quoted by EP, PHL, 128.
15“sobbing and”： SO, MO, 39, in PHL, page 393 in PDF.
16“swearing, cursing”： SO, MO, 38, in PHL, page 392 in PDF.
17“silent musings”： EP, MK, 65.
18“Comfort, attention”： EP, PHL, 87.
19“blackest night”： EP, MK, 63.
CHAPTER 17
1“Duties are ours”： EP, GD, 12.
2“pretend to be”： Ibid., 360.
3“in consequence”： EP, PHL, 93.
4“mere empty bubbles”： EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 136.
5“The only way”： EP, GD, 12.
6“I determined”： EP, PHL, 94.
7“filthy insane”： Phrase cited in Grob, The Mad Among Us, 85.
8“their beds”： New York State official, quoted in ibid.
9“an exceedingly”： EP, PHL, 94.
10“their personal cleanliness”： Ibid.
11“with a scream”： AM, “The Better Way,” 28.
12“I cannot forget”： EP, PHL, 95.
13“Good morning”： AM, quoted by EP, ibid.
14“Doctor, I find”： EP, ibid.
15“Yes”： AM, quoted by EP, ibid.
16“It is no”： EP, ibid., 96.
17“I do not”： Ibid., 173.
18“I find, from”： EP, GD, 1:184.
19“brute beasts”： EP, PHL, 186.
20“as black as”： Ibid., 96.
21“Mrs. Packard”： Minerva Tenney, quoted by EP, ibid., 92.
22“To [Minnie’s] kindness”： EP, ibid.
23“like a sister”： Ibid.
24“stripped of every”： EP, MK, 64.
25“feelings of delicacy”： EP, PHL, 91.
26“disappointed affection”： Ibid., 128.
27“human wreck”： Ibid.
28“a handsome, delicate”： Ibid.
29“most desperately upon”： EP, GD, 1:229.
30“Dear mamma!”： Arthur Packard, quoted by EP, PHL, 41.
31“loving caresses”： EP, GD, 1:330.
32“sweet spirit”： Ibid., 2:302.
33“pleasure almost unalloyed”： Ibid., 1:229.
34“I must love”： Ibid., 4:164.
35“more like the”： EP, PHL, 128.