27“restored to reason”： Jury’s verdict in the trial of Mary Todd Lincoln, June 15, 1876, in ibid., 104.
28“an efficient aid”： EP, MK, 7.
29“want of courage”： EP, GD, 1:11.
30“I now fear”： Ibid., 1:12.
31“We must be”： EP, PHL, 13.
32“My beloved sisters”： EP, GD, 1:3.
33“by the married”： Message engraved on watch, quoted by EP, letter to the editor, in “The Emancipation Watch,” Daily Inter Ocean, September 15, 1889.
34“inestimable treasure”： Ibid.
35“as a significant”： Ibid.
36“ever an advocate”： Palmer, Bench and Bar of Illinois, 1026.
37“so strong a”： Ibid.
38“least successful”： Emma L. Packard, letter to Barbara Sapinsley, October 6, 1965. Barbara Sapinsley Papers.
39“mild, unimpressive”： Ibid.
40“Joys bright and”： EP, GD, 2:230.
41“taken deranged”： TP, TPD, 42 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
42“disrupting a child’s”： Vanessa LoBue, “The Effects of Separating Children from Their Parents,” Psychology Today, July 5, 2018, https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-baby-scientist/201807/the-effects-separating-children-their-parents.
43“it seemed as”： TP, TPD, 42 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
44“greatly emaciated”： Ibid.
45“wrong treatment”： Ibid., 85 （October 16, 1871）。
46“I acknowledge”： Ibid., 41.
47“irreligious influence”： Ibid.
48“His health is”： EP, MK, 51.
49“The infirmities”： TP, TPD, 42 （“Wife’s Insanity—1860”）。
50“quite cheerful”： Joseph H. Smart, attendant at Oak Lawn, evidence to coroner’s inquest, “Dr. Andrew McFarland,” Illinois Daily Courier, November 23, 1891.
51“having written any”： “The Other Side of the Story,” Chicago Tribune, May 14, 1886.
52“I’m weary”： AM, “Requiem,” reproduced in “The Last Sad Rites,” Illinois Weekly Courier, November 25, 1891.
53“Death by strangulation”： Official verdict of the jury at AM’s inquest, in “Dr. Andrew McFarland.”
54“Famous Packard investigation”： “Sensational Suicide,” Daily Illinois State Register, November 24, 1891.
55“with sincere sorrow”： “Mrs. S. M. P. Packard” [sic], Daily Inter Ocean （Chicago）， July 27, 1897.
56“She was remarkably”： “A Noted Woman,” Boston Transcript, July 28, 1897.
57“Wise Friend”： “Wise Friend of the Insane Is Dead,” Chicago Tribune, July 27, 1897.
58“an enviable record”： “Mrs. E. T. W. Packard Leaves an Enviable Record Behind” [sic], Tennessean, July 27, 1897.
59“strictly private”： “Mrs. S. M. P. Packard” [sic].
POSTSCRIPT
1“Pray for her” and following quotations: Donald J. Trump （@realDonaldTrump）， “Nancy Pelosi needs help fast!” Twitter, October 17, 2019, 1:00 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1184620202480193537?lang=en. This Twitter account has since been suspended.
2“unhinged meltdown”： Donald J. Trump （@realDonaldTrump）， “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!” Twitter, October 16, 2019, 10:29 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184597281808498688.
3“suffering from hysteria”： The Times （UK）， December 11, 1908, quoted in Digby, “Victorian Values,” 212.
4“dirty politics”： Quoted in Elizabeth McCauley, “Martha Mitchell: The Woman Nobody Believed About Watergate,” All That’s Interesting, September 17, 2018, https://allthatsinteresting.com/martha-mitchell.
5“You have to”： Laura, quoted in Phyllis Chesler, Women and Madness （New York: Doubleday, 1972）， 169.
6“vile practice”： Daniel Defoe, 1687, quoted in ibid., 163.
7“What is an”： EP, PHL, 122.
8“You’re crazy”： Janice Dickinson’s court evidence, quoted in “US model ‘wanted to punch’ Bill Cosby after alleged rape,” BBC News, April 12, 2018, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43747223.
9“increasingly unglued”： Memo of Lisa Bloom, 2016, quoted in Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite A Movement （New York: Penguin, 2019）， 101.