13“I found the”： EP, MK, 9.
14“I find it”： EP, GD, 4:251.
15“my treacherous friend”： EP, letter to AM, August 10, 1863, in ibid., 4:250.
16“Mr. Packard is”： EP, ibid., 4:261.
17“an act of treachery”： Ibid., 4:276.
18“thought the book”： Ibid.
19“one spring of”： EP, MK, 57.
20“He is no less”： EP, GD, 4:276.
21“rattlesnakes”： Ibid., 4:261.
22“and then drag”： Ibid.
23“The very word”： Ibid., 1:96.
24“abandon the project”： EP, MK, 9.
25“for the present”： Ibid.
26“The stone of truth”： EP, letter to AM, August 10, 1863, in GD, 4:252.
27“even in defiance”： EP, MK, 10.
28“should self-defense”： EP, TE, 121.
29“It shall be”： EP, PHL, 125.
30“done what she”： Ibid.
31“The pain is”： EP, GD, 2:309.
32“alienated from me”： EP, letter to TP, July 3, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 13, 1866.
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1“wet and sloppy”： EP, MP2, 10.
2Conversation between EP and boy: Ibid., 11.
3“good talking”： EP, PHL, 119.
4Conversation between EP and George Packard: Recounted by EP, MP2, 11–12.
5“only one side”： EP, MPE, 89.
6“The other side”： Ibid.
7“The result”： Ibid.
8“injurious interference”： TP, “An Account of the Insanity Case of Mrs. E. P. W. Packard of Manteno, Illinois,” Gazette and Courier, April 4, 1864.
9“Their speeches came”： Ibid.
10“great trouble to”： TP, TPD, 80 （1861）。
11“he preached until”： EP on what she was told about TP, MPE, 77.
12“in order to”： EP, MK, 35.
13“We lived without”： TP, TPD, 80 （1863）。
14“desolate-looking”： EP, MP2, 13.
15“extra amount of”： Ibid.
16“to do my”： Ibid.
17“the marriage contract”： EP, letter to TP, July 1, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.
18“the most efficient”： EP, MPE, 10.
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1“[You are] going”： EP, MP2, 13.
2“perfect image”： Dr. Chandler, quoted by EP, GD, 2:301.
3“as good and”： EP, ibid., 2:302.
4“little daughter” and following quotation: Lizzie Packard （the name TP used for Libby Packard）， certificate, July 6, 1864, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 1, 1866.
5“My daughter”： EP, MP2, 13.
6“No”： TP, quoted in ibid.
7“You shall heat”： Ibid., 14.
8“they needed cleaning”： Mrs. Blessing, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 36.
9“It looked as”： Mrs. Haslett, court testimony, in ibid.
10“bathing, toilet duties”： EP, MP2, 16.
11“required them to”： Ibid.
12“It don’t need”： TP, quoted in ibid., 14.
13“Let me show”： EP, ibid.
14“his hand upraised”： Ibid.
15“loud and most”： Ibid.
16“I forbid your”： TP, quoted in ibid.
17“I exchanged no”： EP, ibid., 13.
18“three years was”： EP, MP1, 65.
19“not to respect”： Kankakee Gazette, reproduced in “The Case of Mrs. Packard,” Chicago Tribune, January 28, 1864.
20“I have seen”： Joseph E. Labrie, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 32.
21“until they had”： EP, MK, 17.
22“mischievous intermeddlers”： TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”
23“meeting her secretly”： Ibid.
24“A Manteno mob”： TP, TPD, 81 （1863）。
25“a couple of”： Ibid.
26“the chief instigators”： TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”
27“O what scenes”： TP, TPD, 81 （1863）。
28“to regulate”： Ibid.
29“I cannot”： Ibid.
30“good treatment”： TP, citing the certificates of Hervey Severance, Mrs. Sybil T. Dole, Samuel Packard, and Elizabeth W. Packard （Libby） about their observations of this meeting, in “Account of the Insanity Case.”
31“had a great”： Ibid.