20“O, yes”： EP, PHL, 263 [italics added].
21“Mrs. Packard’s Personal”： “Mrs. Packard’s Personal Liberty Law,” Jacksonville Sentinel, May 9, 1867.
22“tug of war”： EP, MP2, 203.
23“in a state”： Ibid., 204.
24“Mrs. Packard”： Gentleman quoted by EP, ibid.
25“I felt such”： EP, ibid.
26“In that decision”： Ibid.
27“Mrs. Packard, your”： Oglesby, quoted by EP, ibid., 208.
28“In the name”： EP, ibid., 208–9.
29“a record of”： Ibid., 209.
30“the prime motivator”： Richard Dewey, “The Jury Law for the Commitment of the Insane in Illinois, 1867–1893 and Mrs. E. P. W. Packard, its author. Also, Later Developments in Lunacy Legislation in Illinois,” read before the American Medical Psychological Association, May 29, 1912, Chicago Medical Recorder 35, no. 1: 72, Barbara Sapinsley Papers.
31“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.
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1“imperfectly prepared”： “Illinois Legislation Regarding Hospitals,” 220.
2“past the stage”： Eleventh Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville （Springfield, IL, 1868）， 9.
3“dangerous”： Ibid.
4“possess extreme”： Ibid., 9–10.
5“infernal prosecutions”： A. H. Van Nostrand, “Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” AJOI 23 （July 1866）： 115.
6“loose and flawy”： “Habeas Corpus and Lunacy,” AJOI 26 （January 1870）： 336.
7“this innovation”： EP, MP2, 323.
8“The conduct of”： “Illinois Legislation Regarding Hospitals,” 221.
9“confirmatory”： Ibid.
10“ridiculous farce”： Jacksonville Sentinel, May 30, 1867.
11“The effect of”： “Mrs. Packard’s Personal Liberty Law.”
12“The reports put”： “Mrs. Packard’s Personal Liberty Law Again,” Jacksonville Sentinel, May 16, 1867.
13“The name of”： Palmer, Bench and Bar of Illinois, 790.
14“The history of”： A “learned historian of this state,” quoted in ibid.
15“every detail”： Palmer, ibid.
16“kind, courteous”： Resolution of the Illinois House of Representatives, quoted in ibid., 789.
17“absolute justice”： Palmer, ibid., 790.
18“pretty able”： AM, letter to Dr. Edward Jarvis, January 2, 1868, Edward Jarvis Papers.
19“of well-known”： “The Insane Asylum,” Kankakee Gazette, December 19, 1867.
20“astute lawyers”： Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, Special Report of the Trustees, 43.
21“confer with the”： Resolution of the Illinois House of Representatives, quoted in ibid., 3.
22“The action of”： Trustees of the Illinois State Hospital, ibid., 5.
23“should be cast”： AM, “The Better Way,” 11.
24“perverted representations”： Ibid.
25“To reject their”： EP summarizing the committee’s opinion, PHL, vi.
26“The representations”： EP, GD, 2:210 [italics added].
27“would not let”： Testimony of Miss Kane before the investigating committee, in Report of the Investigating Committee, 38.
28“cast the water”： Ibid.
29“made no complaints”： Ibid., 39.
30“serious apprehensions”： Report of the Investigating Committee, 8.
31“I hope”： EP quoting the husband of Mrs. Caroline E. Lake, in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 143, in PHL, page 497 in PDF.
32“mock jury trial”： Shedd, “Testimony of Mrs. Tirzah F. Shedd,” in ibid., 132, in PHL, page 486 in PDF.
33“Is Mrs. Shedd”： AM’s letter, quoted in ibid., 134, in PHL, page 488 in PDF.
34“He came in”： Testimony of Mrs. Shedd before the investigating committee, in Special Report of the Trustees, 29.
35“I don’t see”： AM, quoted in “Testimony of Mrs. Tirzah F. Shedd,” in “Mrs. Packard’s Coadjutor’s Testimony,” 134, in PHL, page 488 in PDF.
36“improper liberties”： Testimony of Mrs. Shedd before the investigating committee, in Special Report of the Trustees, 29.