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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(172)

Author:Kate Moore

10“If the prisoner”: Shedd, “Testimony of Mrs. Tirzah F. Shedd,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 137, in PHL, page 491 in PDF.

11“subduing treatment”: EP, printed appeal, in “Wife Behind the Bars.”

12“the patient who”: AM, in Reports of the New Hampshire Asylum, 1846, 23.

13“I have in”: AM, letter to TP, February 2, 1861, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.

14“the possibility of”: AM, in “Packard Insanity Case.”

15“He is trying”: EP, PHL, 116.

16“all the work”: TP, letter to EP, c. spring 1861, quoted in PHL, 115.

17“My daughter did”: TP, TPD, 80 (1861)。

18“very important age”: EP, MK, 49.

19“How can a”: EP, PHL, 115.

20“Is there not”: EP, TE, 111.

21“When I visited”: TP, TPD, 79 (1861)。

22“I have done”: EP, GD, 2:351.

23“He is answerable”: EP, TE, 48.

24“a being whom”: Ibid., 34.

25“I can protect”: EP, GD, 1:128–29.

26“Yes, husband”: EP, TE, 34.

27“Everything in her”: AM, letter to TP, April 3, 1862, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.

28“Mrs. Packard, do”: AM, quoted by EP, MP2, 156.

29“would be an”: EP, PHL, 192.

30“I never saw”: TP, speech as reported by patient Mrs. Page, quoted by EP, ibid., 53.

31“new effort for”: Samuel Ware, letter to TP, July 17, 1861, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 1, 1866.

32“Mrs. Packard”: AM, letter to EP’s friends, including Mr. David Field, as quoted by EP, PHL, 285.

33“slight”: Elizabeth Packard’s admittance record at the Illinois State Hospital, June 19, 1860, Barbara Sapinsley Papers.

34“has become”: AM, letter to EP’s friends, including Mr. David Field, as quoted by EP, PHL, 285.

35“I do not”: AM, letter to David Field, ibid.

36“forms of law”: TP, quoted by EP, ibid., 43.

37“no hope of”: EP, ibid., 76.

38“think this place”: EP, GD, 4:58.

39“I shall never”: EP, TE, 31.

40“You, Dr. McFarland”: EP, PHL, 213.

41“I never regretted”: Ibid., 214.

42“slow constitutional deterioration”: AM, in “Sixth Biennial Report,” 275.

43“The cheek”: Ibid.

44“sedative influence”: “Autobiography of the Insane,” Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology 8 (1855): 353.

45“power and”: Ibid.

46“What is very”: EP, GD, 1:154.

47“Underground Express”: Mentioned throughout EP’s books, including ibid., 2:323.

48“assist in any”: Appendix, “Extracts from Rules and Regulations Referred to in this Report,” Chapter X: Attendants and Assistants, General Rules, Section 15, Special Report of the Trustees, 108.

49“Where woman is”: EP, PHL, 154.

50“aroused the just”: Ibid., 183.

51“possessed more than”: EP, GD, 4:57.

52“apples in abundance”: EP, PHL, 287.

53“You know I”: Ibid., 252 [italics added].

54“a mission upon”: AM, in Ninth Biennial Report, 34.

55“With resolution”: EP, PHL, 252–53.

56“To be God’s”: Ibid., 253.

57“a disposition wantonly”: AM, “Minor Mental Maladies,” 18.

58“more than lawyer-like”: AM, in “Packard Insanity Case.”

59“She gives us”: AM, letter to TP, April 3, 1862, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.

CHAPTER 23

1“a quiet class”: EP, GD, 4:47.

2“Quiet maniacs!”: Ibid.

3“until my soul”: Mrs. Hosmer, “Mrs. Hosmer’s Letter to Miss Dix,” reproduced in Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 30.

4Conversation between EP and attendant: EP, PHL, 109.

5“I am becoming”: Ibid., 216.

6“Mrs. Packard, stop”: Ibid., 108.

7“locked in her”: Ibid., 107.

8“accompanied with”: Ibid.

9“calculated to convert”: Ibid.