7“Nothing but a”: Ibid., 82.
8“reign of terror”: SO, MO, 76, in PHL, page 430 in PDF.
9“only a protraction”: Ibid., 79, in PHL, page 433 in PDF.
10“all felt ourselves”: Ibid., 81, in PHL, page 435 in PDF.
11“At every opportunity”: Ibid.
12“military activity”: Ibid., 85, in PHL, page 439 in PDF.
13“tangled up in”: Ibid., 84, in PHL, page 438 in PDF.
14“Looking glasses”: Ibid., 85, in PHL, page 439 in PDF.
15“little uneasiness”: Ibid., 86, in PHL, page 440 in PDF.
16“The wind was”: Ibid., 83, in PHL, page 437 in PDF.
17“so scattered”: Ibid.
18“Orders were suddenly”: Ibid., 87, in PHL, page 441 in PDF.
19“blasted reputation”: EP, MK, 95.
20“in a state”: Ibid.
21“This book is”: Ibid.
22“It is my”: Ibid., 83.
23“as an act”: Ibid., 82.
24“my heart had”: Ibid., 86.
25“willingly offered”: EP, PHL, 327.
26“Dr. McFarland”: EP, letter to AM, January 19, 1863, reproduced in MK, 83–85.
27“our future existence”: EP, MK, 86.
28“I did then”: EP, MP1, 382.
29“This note must”: EP, letter to AM, January 19, 1863, reproduced in MK, 85.
30“without uttering one”: EP, MK, 87.
31“low, respectful bow”: Ibid.
32“with a slight”: Ibid.
33“the highest expectations”: Ibid.
34“I considered this”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 32
1“If you fail”: EP, letter to AM, quoted in PHL, 320.
2“almost hear my”: EP, PHL, 320.
3Conversation between EP and AM: Recounted by EP, ibid.
4“Good sleep”: Ibid., 321.
5“as good an”: Ibid.
6“Duties are ours”: EP, GD, 2:12 [italics added].
7Conversation between EP and AM: Recounted by EP, PHL, 322.
8“God’s purpose would”: EP, GD, 2:415.
9“knowing the dog”: Ibid.
10“He will return”: EP, MK, 88.
11“There seemed”: Ibid.
12“this secret”: Ibid.
13“This…was”: Ibid.
14“unasked, with an”: EP, PHL, 326.
15“delightful work”: Ibid.
16“I never”: Ibid.
17“entire trust”: Ibid.
18“should trust him”: EP, TE, 28.
19“I had no”: EP, PHL, 326.
20“dearest friend”: EP, GD, 2:351.
21“browbeat her”: EP, MPE, 81.
22“foul play”: Ibid.
23“open to all”: Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Northampton, October, 1863 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1864), 9, Northampton State Hospital Annual Reports (RB 035), Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murb035-y1863-i001.
24“none have ever”: Ibid., 10.
25“Elizabeth P. W.”: Trustees’ Records, March 4, 1863, quoted in Special Report of the Trustees, 31.
CHAPTER 33
1“a theme of”: SO, MO, 103, in PHL, page 457 in PDF.
2“I felt that”: EP, GD, 4:219.
3“to secure for”: Ibid., 4:218.
4“I felt”: Ibid., 4:220.
5“I had full”: Ibid., 4:219–20.
6“I considered myself”: Ibid., 4:222.
7“sufficient ability”: “Eighth Biennial Report,” 338.
8“a hodgepodge”: Don Harrison Doyle, The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825–70 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 199.
9“simply a boarder”: EP, GD, 4:222.
10“I really felt”: EP, PHL, 329.
CHAPTER 34
1“dazzles and bewilders”: “The Metropolitan Hotel,” New York Herald, September 2, 1852.
2“palaces of”: Ibid.
3“rich and inviting”: Ibid.
4“got tired”: AM, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 91.
5“infinite trouble”: Ibid.
6“I proposed to”: Ibid.
7“at any time”: Daily Illinois State Register, November 29, 1883.
8“free and full”: EP, PHL, 305–6.
9“I do not”: AM, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 91.