32“did not wish”： Ibid.
33“left the room”： Ibid.
CHAPTER 39
1“great comfort”： TP, TPD, 37.
2“prejudicing and influencing”： Thomas P. Bonfield, certificate supplied to TP, February 19, 1864, in “Reply to Mr. Sewall’s Rejoinder,” Boston Daily Advertiser, May 3, 1865.
3“took an inventory”： EP, MP2, 15.
4“The entire house”： Ibid.
5“every stone”： Ibid.
6“I…refused a woman”： Samuel Packard, certificate supplied to TP, June 1, 1864, in “Reply to Mr. Sewall’s Rejoinder.”
7“This nation, under”： Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address,” November 19, 1863, https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gettysburg-address.
8“would not let”： Mrs. Blessing, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 36.
9“striking”： Bill of complaint for divorce, Kankakee County Circuit Court, February 8, 1864.
10“dragging [her] by”： Ibid.
11“His sympathy”： EP, GD, 2:112.
12“false and slanderous”： Abijah H. Dole, Hervey Severance, Sibyl T. Dole, and Laura E. Dole, certificate supplied to TP, November 24, 1863, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 8, 1866.
13“Mrs. Packard, the”： Ibid.
14“To deprive the”： Ray, “American Legislation on Insanity,” 25.
15“The door to”： Joseph E. Labrie, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 33.
16“released from her”： Mrs. Haslett, court testimony, in ibid., 36.
17“protection from”： Ibid.
18“I advised her”： Ibid.
19“Would it not”： EP, MPE, 63.
20“favored her”： AM, letter to TP, December 18, 1863, quoted by EP, ibid., 9.
CHAPTER 40
1“Mr. Packard had”： Dr. J. D. Mann, court testimony, in Moore, GT, in MPE, 32.
2“I was there”： Ibid.
3“She said she”： Joseph H. Way, court testimony, in ibid., 21.
4Following quotations: Ibid.
5“some calamity would”： J. W. Brown, court testimony, in ibid., 21.
6“It [is] my”： TP, TPD, 81 （1864）。
7“She gave it”： Ibid.
8“almost totally”： “The Weather,” Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1864.
9“Four intermeddlers”： TP, TPD, 41 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
10“Thus was my”： EP, MP2, 15–16.
CHAPTER 41
1“We command you”： State of Illinois, Kankakee County, “The People of the State of Illinois, to Theophilus Packard,” January 11, 1864, as reproduced in Moore, GT, in MPE, 15–16.
2“a rise of”： “The Cold Term,” Chicago Tribune, January 14, 1864.
3“to avail myself”： EP, MP2, 17.
4“as a case”： Dr. Prince, Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton, Massachusetts, letter to TP, quoted by EP, ibid.
5“O, when one”： EP, PHL, 273.
6“Three long years”： EP, “My Plea for Married Women’s Emancipation made before Connecticut Legislature in New Haven State House, June 1866,” in MP2, 405.
7“I should run”： EP, GD, 1:171–72.
8“In a few days”： EP, MPE, 10.
9“Stranger, please”： EP, MP2, 20.
10“If I should”： EP, MPE, 10.
11“responsible citizens”： Kankakee Gazette, article reproduced in “The Case of Mrs. Packard,” Chicago Tribune, January 28, 1864.
12“ill-arranged seats”： “The Court House,” Kankakee Gazette, January 23, 1868.
13“very difficult”： Ibid.
14“enraged”： TP, “The Charge Against Rev. Mr. Packard,” Boston Daily Advertiser, April 4, 1865.
15“seething”： Ibid.
16“I have neglected”： EP, PHL, 194.
17“Devoid of all”： Portrait and Biographical Record of Kankakee County, Illinois （Chicago: Lake City, 1893）， 242.
18“Steve”： John M. Palmer, ed., The Bench and Bar of Illinois: Historical and Reminiscent, vol. 2 （Chicago: Lewis, 1899）， 980.
19“the life and soul”： Ibid.
20“hosts of friends”： Ibid.
21“one of the”： Ibid., 979.
22“benevolent and charitable”： Ibid., 980.
23“He gives his”： Ibid.
24“without any expectation”： Stephen R. Moore, letter to the editors, Boston Daily Advertiser, May 16, 1865, reproduced in MPE, 123.