28“bullying demand[s]” and following quotations: “Rev. T. Packard—Again,” Hampshire Express, June 28, 1866.
29“No other proof”： TP, “Charge Against Rev. Mr. Packard.”
30“I have no”： AM, “Packard Insanity Case.”
31“The case was”： EP, MP2, 379.
32“We will gladly”： Elizabeth W. Packard （Libby）， George H. Packard, and Arthur D. Packard, letter to EP, May 24, 1869, in “The End of the Packard Matter,” Illinois Journal, June 4, 1869.
33“My fond heart”： EP, letter to Elizabeth （Libby）， George, and Arthur Packard, May 25, 1869, in ibid.
34“The mother’s battle”： EP, MP2, 379.
35“pies, cake”： “The Fourth,” Chicago Tribune, July 4, 1869.
36“velocipede”： Ibid.
37“finest residential area”： Chicago School of Architecture Foundation and the Prairie Avenue Historic District Committee, “Prairie Avenue Historic District” （self-pub., July 1975）， Foreword, 1.
38“safe”： TP, TPD, 41 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
39“got along”： Ibid., 84 （1869）。
40“When he restored”： EP, MP2, 383.
41“stranger gentleman”： Ibid.
42“kindly gratified”： Ibid., 384.
43“indescribable beauty”： James. M. Pierce, Harvard scientist, Congressional report, quoted in Joe McFarland, “When Was the Last Total Solar Eclipse in Illinois? It’s Been a Long Time,” Daily Herald, August 18, 2017, https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20170817/when-was-the-last-total-solar-eclipse-in-illinois-its-been-a-long-time.
44“secondary”： EP, MP2, 381.
45“undivided energies”： Ibid., 384.
EPILOGUE
1“God grant”： EP, PHL, 162–63.
2“Packard’s Law”： Quoted in Carlisle, Elizabeth Packard, 165.
3“feeling of independence”： Dr. Ranney, Iowa Superintendent, quoted in Himelhoch, “Elizabeth Packard,” 368.
4“We passed the”： A member of the Massachusetts Legislative Committee, quoted by EP, MK, 137.
5“Sir, I am”： EP, ibid.
6“arrogant guardianship”： National Association for the Protection of the Insane and the Prevention of Insanity, quoted in Carlisle, Elizabeth Packard, 188.
7“You have far”： S. Weir Mitchell, “Address before the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 21, no. 2 （1894）： 427.
8“female paranoiac”： Dr. James G. Kiernan, comment made at the joint meeting of the Chicago Medical Society and the Chicago Medico-Legal Society, February 16, 1891, quoted in Himelhoch, “Elizabeth Packard,” 373.
9“half-cured lunatic”： Clement Walker, “Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” AJOI 32 （January 1876）： 352, in Carlisle, Elizabeth Packard, 176.
10“through fire and”： EP, PHL, 172.
11“At every inch”： Ibid.
12“just one”： Dr. D. R. Brower, Transactions of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society （Chicago, 1893）： 485, in Himelhoch, “Elizabeth Packard,” 374.
13“A great many”： Myra Bradwell, Chicago Legal News, March 3, 1879, 267:3–4, in Carlisle, Elizabeth Packard, 179.
14“the greatest obstacle”： EP, MK, 7.
15“my most terrible”： Ibid., 99.
16“whitewashing report”： Daily Illinois State Register, June 29, 1869.
17“technical appearance”： “Illinois Legislation Regarding Hospitals,” 220.
18“accidental collisions”： Special Report of the Trustees, 46.
19“styled…abuse”： Ibid., 85.
20“Who would not”： Ibid., 59.
21“with the satisfaction”： “New Superintendent of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane,” Illinois State Journal, June 10, 1870.
22“entirely exhonorated”： “An Infamous Lie,” Illinois State Journal, July 5, 1869.
23“not composed”： Ibid.
24“were not substantiated”： “The Late Dr. M’Farland,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 24, 1891.
25“distinguished founder”： Ibid.
26“helpless and irresponsible”： AM to Robert Todd Lincoln, September 8, 1875, in Mark E. Neely Jr. and R. Gerald McMurtry, The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln （Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986）， 72.