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“The election of Lincoln…”

Gasparin, A., & Booth, M. L. (1861). The uprising of a great people: The United States in 1861. New York: Scribner, p. 11.

“A naval blockade…”

Gasparin, A., & Booth, M. L. (1861). The uprising of a great people: The United States in 1861. New York: Scribner, p. 141.

“…regenerate the institutions…”

Gasparin, A., & Booth, M. L. (1861). The uprising of a great people: The United States in 1861. New York: Scribner, p. 225.

“…the elimination of slavery…”

Gasparin, A., & Booth, M. L. (1861). The uprising of a great people: The United States in 1861. New York: Scribner, p. 257.

“…a few of its twinkling cluster…”

Gasparin, A., & Booth, M. L. (1861). The uprising of a great people: The United States in 1861. New York: Scribner, p. 262-63.

“…Mary Booth completed her translation…”

Mary Booth dated her translator’s preface a month and four days before Sims sailed for Europe (see “…the Persia…,” above).

Gasparin, A., & Booth, M. L. (1861). The uprising of a great people: The United States in 1861. New York: Scribner, p. viii.

“W.H. Pratt of Mobile…”

See “…W.H. Pratt had been dispatched to Europe…,” above.

“…addressed to a nom de guerre.”

From W.H. Pratt to unknown person, May 30, 1861, written on board the steamship Europa, after Pratt had left the United States, six weeks after the start of the Civil War. This transcription is held in the State Department archives at the Archives II facility in Washington D.C.

“…the United States’ Dead Letter Office.”

From Postmaster General John A. Kasson to William Seward, June 19, 1861, held in the State Department archives at the Archives II facility in Washington D.C.

“…thwart the designs…”

From William Seward to Henry Shelton Sanford, June 20, 1861, held in the State Department archives at the Archives II facility in Washington D.C.

“It was a tip Mary Booth…”

There is no direct indication that Mary Booth reached out to New York Commissioner of Police James Bowen about Sims—nor is it clear who did. Although there is evidence that Sims agitated on behalf of the South even before he left the country, he went to great lengths, both before and after the war, to disguise his leanings, by acknowledging his sentiments but denying that he would ever act on them, was loyal to the Union, and so on. Mary Booth was perfectly positioned to identify the lie in this, and she was just at this point beginning to make the contacts—Charles Sumner, and others—that would have enabled her to call attention to the fact that Sims’s publicized trip abroad might have had motives beyond researching hospital design. (As noted above, I believe it’s possible that Booth’s involvement with Sims may have been much more intentional, as a kind of spying, than I even describe in the printed book.)

The Commercial Advertiser, November 10, 1860. Sims was addressing a meeting of Southern medical students.

“…wholly secessionist in spirit…”

Letter from James Bowen to William Seward, July 20, 1861, held in the State Department archives at the Archives II facility in Washington D.C.

“…hostile to the government.”

From William Sanford to Henry Shelton Sanford, July 25, 1861, held in the State Department archives at the Archives II facility in Washington D.C.

“Mary Booth continued her translation work…”

Phelps, E. S., Stowe, H. B., Cooke, R. T., Livermore, M. A. R., Spofford, H. E. P., Harland, M., Clemmer, M., ... Elliott, M. H. (1884). Our famous women: An authorized record of the lives and deeds of distinguished American women of our times. Hartford, Conn: A.D. Worthington & Co, p. 128.

“…the United States Sanitary Commission.”

FOLEY, T., Mary L. Booth: The Story of an Extraordinary 19th-Century Woman, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2018, p. 77.

“…served on the commission’s hospital ships…”

As will be seen in a later chapter, Caroline Lane will play a significant role in the fate of J. Marion Sims at Woman’s Hospital.

McGregor, D. K., & McGregor, D. K. (1998). From midwives to medicine: The birth of American gynecology, p. 183.