10“a spiritual woman”： EP, “Statement Before the Trustees,” TE, 23.
11“Write what you”： AM, quoted by EP, MPE, 111.
12“dexterously”： AM, in Ninth Biennial Report, 33.
13“may utter almost”： Ibid.
14“As there always”： AM, letter to TP, March 14, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.
15“convince the most”： Ibid.
16“most effectually”： Ibid.
17“absurd and childish”： Ibid.
18“Are not women”： EP, GD, 1:269.
19“Put woman into”： Ibid., 2:359 [italics added].
20“unconcerned about what”： Ibid., 2:19.
21“The delusion was”： AM, in “Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” 92.
22“Her insanity consists”： AM, official certificate regarding EP’s sanity, May 5, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.
23“Is not a”： EP, GD, 2:228 [italics added].
24“He can’t be”： Ibid., 2:395.
25“stirring up the”： TP reporting what AM told him by letter about EP, TPD, 80 （1862）。
26“most welcome”： AM, in Ninth Biennial Report, 35.
27“The extraordinary amount”： AM, letter to TP, March 14, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.
28“I hereby certify”： AM, official certificate regarding EP’s sanity, May 5, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.
29“I care nothing”： AM, letter to Mrs. Alma E. Eaton, in “Packard Controversy.”
CHAPTER 35
1“Mrs. Packard must”： Attendant, quoted by EP, PHL, 331.
2“He then shook”： EP, GD, 4:226.
3“As to accompanying”： EP, PHL, 331.
4“tremor of excitement”： EP, GD, 4:91.
5“No flash of”： SO, MO, 105, in PHL, page 459 in PDF.
6“Mrs. Packard”： Dr. Tenny, quoted by EP, PHL, 332.
7“like water spilt”： EP, GD, 4:231.
8“Dr. Tenny”： EP, PHL, 332 [italics added].
9“Take Mrs. Packard”： Ibid.
10“I held myself”： Ibid.
11“None came”： EP, GD, 4:227.
12“Mr. Packard’s wishes”： Ibid.
13“No, sir”： Ibid.
14“I knew not”： EP, PHL, 333–34.
15“throbbing heart”： SO, MO, 105, in PHL, page 459 in PDF.
16“fast gathering”： Ibid.
17“She has gone”： Ibid.
18“Some lectured on”： Ibid., 106, in PHL, page 460 in PDF.
19“I maintain”： EP, TE, 92.
20“June 18/63”： Elizabeth Packard’s discharge record at the Illinois State Hospital, Jacksonville Record 1:232, June 18, 1863, Barbara Sapinsley Papers.
21“The one”： EP, GD, 4:228.
22“I had found”： Ibid., 4:243.
23“We shall miss”： Attendant, quoted by EP, PHL, 335.
24“in any suspicious”： EP, GD, 4:241.
25“as if I”： Ibid., 4:241–42.
26“I had no”： Ibid., 4:238.
PART FIVE: TURNING POINTS
EPIGRAPHS
1“I am not”： Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” keynote speech, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, June 1981, Storrs, CT, transcript, https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism/.
2“Woman has her”： Elizabeth Blackwell （the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States）， letter to Emily Collins, August 12, 1848, quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, 1:90.
CHAPTER 36
1“my truest and”： EP, GD, 4:238.
2“as welcome”： Ibid., 4:239.
3“little, weak-minded”： Ibid., 4:265.
4“If she ever”： TP, quoted by EP, MP2, 9.
5“as a kind”： EP, PHL, 274.
6“I cried so hard”： EP, GD, 4:246.
7“first and chief”： Ibid., 4:245.
8“field of letters”： Ibid.
9“tiresome negotiations”： SO, MO, 111, in PHL, page 465 in PDF.
10“in no respect”： EP in De Wolf, “Public Institutions.”
11“entertained none”： Ibid.
12“There is not”： EP, letter to Libby Packard, August 4, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.