36“I am going”： Jenny Haslett, quoted by EP, ibid.
CHAPTER 18
1“sudden frenzies”： EP, PHL, 128.
2“O, Mrs. Packard”： Minerva Tenney, quoted by EP, ibid.
3“It is no”： AM, quoted by EP, ibid., 129.
4“the most dangerous”： EP, ibid.
5“Old Mother Triplet”： EP, GD, 2:395.
6“rare and extraordinary”： SO, MO, 67, in PHL, page 421 in PDF.
7“ordinary”： Ibid.
8“I will kill”： Mrs. Triplet, quoted by EP, MK, 70.
9“tones the most”： EP, ibid.
10“I considered myself”： EP, PHL, 130.
11“seize the tumblers”： Ibid.
12“hurled in promiscuous”： EP, “Mrs. Packard’s Address,” 4, in MPE, page 148 in PDF.
13“constantly exposed”： EP, printed appeal, in “Wife Behind the Bars.”
14“almost daily”： EP, PHL, 127.
15“begged and besought”： EP, “Mrs. Packard’s Address,” 4, in MPE, page 148 in PDF.
16“Even before I”： EP, PHL, 130.
17“a very cruel”： Ibid., 132.
18“he laid his”： Ibid., 78.
19“Dr. McFarland did”： EP, MPE, 103.
20“While I have”： EP, GD, 4:184.
21“Human endurance is”： Davis, Two Years and Three Months, in Geller and Harris, Women of the Asylum, 49.
22“Most of [the]”： Ibid., 48.
23“INSANE ASYLUM”： Adeline T. P. Lunt, excerpts from Behind Bars （1871）， in Geller and Harris, Women of the Asylum, 123.
24“I fully believe”： EP, PHL, 88.
CHAPTER 19
1“Her case is”： AM, letter to TP, August 11, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.
2“no outward form”： AM, “Insanity and Intemperance,” AJOI 19 （April 1863）： 464.
3“When I have”： AM, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 98.
4“a natural growth”： EP, TE, 38.
5“absence of”： AM, “Minor Mental Maladies,” AJOI 20 （July 1863）： 19.
6“Apparently motiveless conduct”： Dr. Thomas Mayo, “Summary,” AJOI 18 （July 1861）： 83.
7“no positive trace”： Ray, “Doubtful Recoveries,” 29.
8“work, talk and”： Dr. Edward Jarvis, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 112.
9“insanity has its”： Dr. Bell, unpublished paper, quoted in Dr. John E. Tyler, “Tests of Insanity,” AJOI 22, nos. 1–2 （October 1865）： 146.
10“It was some”： Dr. Gray, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 73.
11“although he had”： Dr. Chipley, in “Proceedings of the Nineteenth,” 54.
12“sooner or later”： AM, in Reports of the New Hampshire Asylum, 1846, 17.
13“well marked insanity”： Ibid.
14“No human being”： EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 120.
15“less able than”： AM, Reports of the New Hampshire Asylum, 1846, 17.
16“less suitable subjects”： Ibid.
17“Being capable of”： Ibid., 16–17.
18“an artfulness in”： AM, letter to TP, August 11, 1860, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.
19“discontent and disaffection”： Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, Special Report of the Trustees, 31.
20“I believed that”： AM, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 93.
CHAPTER 20
1“bad taste”： EP, PHL, 177.
2“I must soon”： Ibid., 90.
3“I smelled and”： EP, GD, 4:51.
4“poor, shriveled wheat”： EP, MPE, 95.
5“God says I”： EP, GD, 1:241 [italics added].
6“miracle”： EP, “Mrs. Packard’s Address,” 12, in MPE, page 156 in PDF.
7“God’s grace”： Ibid.
8“some foreign country”： Dr. Richard Dewey, c. 1871, quoted in Joseph J. Mehr, Illinois Public Mental Health Services, 1847 to 2000: An Illustrated History （Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2002）， 77.
9“emaciated almost”： SO, MO, 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.
10“from the ends”： EP, PHL, 242.
11“act of self-defense”： Ibid.
12“‘spells’ of excessive”： Ibid., 148.
13“divested herself of”： Ibid.
14“gross indulgence”： Dr. Workman, in “Proceedings of the Thirteenth,” 118.