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“…a dinner party…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 350.

“…the chilly reception…”

See “…Well, What does he want?,” above.

“…he made his approach.”

Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 229.

“…connection to the Times’ ‘Malakoff’…”

See “…introduced to ‘Malakoff’…,” above.

“…whose loyalty was doubtful.”

See “She had never written a word…,” above.

“…as any man in New York.”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, pp. 250-51.

“Would Raymond do him the favor…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 351.

“I don’t think any man…”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 351,

“…the Great Eastern.”

SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 328.

“Thornwell died…”

See “…the five millions of Xerxes…,” above.

Thornwell, J. H., Confederate States of America Collection (Library of Congress), & YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress). (1862). Our danger and our duty. Columbia, S.C: Southern guardian, Steam-Power Press, p. 3., ft.

“…acquitted of murder…”

From the “John F.G. Mittag Chronology,” included in a collection of materials gathered by Lindsay Pettus in Lancaster, South Carolina, held at the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society.

“…Mittag would lose everything…”

The Herald and Torch Light (Hagerstown, MD), February 27, 1867, p. 2.

Letter from J.F.G. Mittag to President Andrew Johnson, April 27, 1867, included in:

Johnson, A., Graf, L. P., Haskins, R. W., & Bergeron, P. H. (1967). The papers of Andrew Johnson. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, February to August, 1867, p. 242.

“Sims’s father enlisted…”

Harris, S. (1950). Woman's surgeon: The life story of J. Marion Sims. New York: Macmillan, p. 202.

“…gunmaker Norman Wiard…”

Transcript of a letter from Henri Stuart to, probably, Secretary of Ordnance Henry Augustus Wise, August 22, 1862.

Most of Stuart’s correspondence is almost totally illegible—this letter, however, was preserved in more than Stuart’s hand. Stuart’s letters to Wise (who, incidentally, wrote novels under the pseudonym “Harry Gringo”) are held at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan, New York, New York.

“…Caroline Thompson finally succumbed…”

See “…a uterine tumor…,” above.

“…on the Rue Balzac.”

“Reminiscences of Dr. J. Marion Sims in Paris,” Edmond Souchon, Medical Record, Vol. 46, No. 23, December 8, 1894, p. 707.

“…a lady-in-waiting…”

Letter from a child of Sims’s brother-in-law, B. Rush Jones, to Dr. C.F. Storey, March 23, 1938, from Luxemburg. Storey was researching an article about Sims. The writer of the letter—the exact name is not included at the end of the letter, offered details about a number of Sims’s children.