The Doctors Blackwell

by The Doctors Blackwell (retail) (epub)

  174 “I believe it has made”: Emily to Blackwell family, January 1, 1855, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.

  174 “made a Dr of me”: Emily to Elizabeth, January 29, 1855, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  174 “as I shall not”: Emily to Elizabeth, November 5, 1854, ibid.

  174 “She will probably thus”: Elizabeth to Emily, November 13, 1854, Reel 74, LC.

  174 “It seems strange”: “From a Correspondent in England,” Una 3, no. 1 (January 1855): 10.

  175 “in which article”: Emily to Blackwell family, November 27, 1854, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.

  175 “I do think you have assumed”: Lovejoy, Women Doctors, 52.

  CHAPTER 12: NEW FACES

  177 “This medical solitude”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 12, 1854, Reel 74, LC.

  177 “With few talents”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 3.

  177 “I thanked him”: Dall, Practical Illustration, 105.

  178 “She knows far more”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 22, 1854, DF.

  179 “My sister has just”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 113.

  179 “Yesterday little Mrs. Clark”: Elizabeth to Emily, April 20, 1854, Folder 45, Collection MC411, SL.

  179 “Would her companionship”: Ibid.

  179 “I don’t want her”: Emily to Elizabeth, c. July 6, 1854, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  179 “A more ignorant”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 2, 1854, ibid.

  179 “I fancy she’s”: Elizabeth to Emily, August 11, 1854, Reel 74, LC.

  180 “much grander”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 22, 1854, DF.

  180 “You must settle”: Ibid.

  181 “My Dispensary business”: Elizabeth to Emily, July 24, 1854, Folder 65, Collection A145, SL.

  181 “I look on the little”: Emily to Elizabeth, July 24, 1854, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  181 filling the margins: Emily to Elizabeth, July 14, 1854, ibid.

  181 “She cried oh”: Elizabeth to Emily, August 11, 1854, Reel 74, LC.

  182 “I found my mind”: Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 174.

  182 “Infant Congress”: W. H. Davenport, “The Nurseries on Randall’s Island,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 36, no. 11 (December 1867): 8–24.

  182 “great depot”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon and Bessie Parkes, June 3, 1856, Folder 2, MS#0124, CU.

  183 “I must tell you”: Elizabeth to Emily, October 1, 1854, Reel 74, LC.

  183 “She is a sturdy”: Ibid.

  183 “Oh nice God”: Sam’s journal, November 19, 1854, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.

  183 “Doctor,” she exclaimed: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 198.

  183 “I have had, and I shall”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon and Bessie Parkes, June 3, 1856, Folder 2, MS#0124, CU.

  183 “Oh Doctor”: Ibid.

  184 “very pleasant-voiced”: Kitty, “Reminiscences,” Folder 650, Collection MC411, SL.

  185 “I decidedly prefer”: Henry to Sam, June 2, 1853, Reel 50, LC.

  186 “I think you will like”: Henry to Lucy Stone, June 13, 1853, in Wheeler, Loving Warriors, 36.

  186 “If both parties”: Henry to Lucy Stone, July 2, 1853, ibid., 45.

  186 “I am very glad”: Lucy Stone to Henry, September 10, 1854, ibid., 98–99.

  187 “You shall choose”: Henry to Lucy Stone, December 22, 1854, ibid., 109.

  187 “Lucy, I wish”: Henry to Lucy Stone, January 3, 1855, ibid., 116.

  187 “We view life”: Elizabeth to Henry, December 27, 1854, Reel 50, LC.

  187 “morbid craving”: Elizabeth to Emily, September 15, 1854, Reel 74, LC.

  187 “We must absolutely”: Elizabeth to Emily, January 23, 1855, Folder 65, Collection A145, SL.

  187 “I hope that intercourse”: Emily to Elizabeth, January 29, 1855, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  187 “Sam says”: Marian, quoted in Elizabeth to Emily, January 23, 1855, Folder 65, Collection A145, SL.

  188 “She has very good taste”: Henry to Lucy Stone, February 13, 1855, in Wheeler, Loving Warriors, 122.

  188 “I protest against”: Elizabeth to Henry, February 22, 1855, Reel 50, LC.

  188 “this act on our part”: “Protest Published by Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, on their Marriage, May 1st 1855,” DF.

  189 “putting Lucy Stone”: Lucy Stone to Antoinette Brown, March 29, 1855, in Wheeler, Loving Warriors, 128.

  189 “a young woman of strange”: Quoted in Wheeler, Loving Warriors, 16.

  190 Henry had tried: Henry to Antoinette Brown, April 16, 1855, Reel 50, LC.

  190 “I forgot my drenched”: Sam’s journal, November 8, 1854, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.

  190 “The love of her”: Ibid., December 16, 1855.

  190 “They are for you”: Antoinette Brown to Sam, December 22, 1855, in Hays, Extraordinary Blackwells, 122.

  190 “spirited miscellaneous kissing”: Sam’s journal, March 2, 1856, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.

  190 “alone of all men”: Lucy Stone to Antoinette Brown, January 20, 1856, in Hays, Extraordinary Blackwells, 122.

  191 “You are a little wretch”: Lucy Stone to Susan B. Anthony, in Wheeler, Loving Warriors, 142–43.

  191 “Would you like to see”: Kitty, “Reminiscences,” Folder 650, Collection MC411, SL.

  192 “Thanks to our judicious”: Sam’s journal, November 9, 1856, Folder 1.3, Collection M715, SL.

  192 “I have experienced”: Emily to Elizabeth, March 23, 1855, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  192 “ardent love”: Anna Blackwell, “Elizabeth Blackwell,” English Woman’s Journal 1, no. 2 (April 1858): 99.

  193 “The surname of the lady”: “Physicians in Muslin,” Punch, April 5, 1856, 133.

  193 “The European hospitals”: Emily to Elizabeth, September 16, 1855, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  193 “old fogies”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 1855, Folder 165, Collection MC411, SL.

  194 “As things have turned out”: Anna to Blackwells, April 14, 1856, Folder 22, Collection MC411, SL.

  CHAPTER 13: INFIRMARY

  195 “I have no turn”: Elizabeth to Henry, December 23, 1855, Folder 62, Collection MC411, SL.

  195 “Dr. Sims has never called”: Elizabeth to Emily, 1855, Reel 74, LC.

  196 “Women have always presided”: Blackwell, Medical Education of Women, 3.

  196 “The midwife must”: Ibid., 5.

  196 “The grandest name”: Ibid., 5–6.

  197 “their ignorance”: Ibid., 8.

  197 “unnatural and monstrous”: Ibid., 8.

  197 “bitter mortification”: Ibid., 9.

  197 “utter want of delicacy”: Ibid., 8.

  197 “There is but one way”: Ibid., 14.

  197 “sound judgment”: Ibid., 15.

  198 “There was scarcely any life”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 183.

  198 “If you must talk”: Ibid., 197.

  198 “designed to meet”: Circular, June 2, 1856, Folder 83, Collection MC411, SL.

  198 “I shall have an Art”: Elizabeth to Emily, June 20, 1856, Folder 68, Collection MC411, SL.

  199 “This enterprise must not”: New-York Tribune, December 15, 1856, 7.

  200 “manifested the capacity”: “Female Physicians,” New-York Tribune, December 5, 1856, 7.

  200 “Debauchery”: Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman & Hall, 1842), 1:212.

  200 “She must have both”: Florence Nightingale to Emily, May 12, 1856, Folder 70, Collection MC411, SL.

  201 “Beecher’s theater”: Applegate, Most Famous Man, 299.

  202 five thousand dollars: Ibid., 291, 294.

  202 William Elder: “New York Infirmary for Women and Children,” New York Daily Herald, May 13, 1857, 3; “Opening of the New-York Infirmary for Women and Children,” New-York Tribune, May 13, 1857, 4.

  202 “Elizabeth Blackwell seemed”: Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 190.

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03 “fully respectable”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 209.

  204 “It is a principle”: Fourth Annual Report of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children for the Year 1857 (New York: Baker & Taylor, 1858), NYAM. Fourth counts from the founding of the dispensary in 1853; this was the first annual published after the founding of the infirmary.

  205 “What the Lady Doctors Are Doing”: “What the Lady Doctors Are Doing,” New-York Times, July 24, 1857, 8.

  205 “I found that she also”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 185.

  206 “Night after night”: Sixth Annual Report of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children for the Year 1859 (New York: Baptist & Taylor, 1860), 7.

  206 “unpleasant annoyances”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 197.

  206 “killing women in childbirth”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 219.

  206 “It was a sight”: Ibid., 227.

  207 “I informed him”: Elizabeth to Emily, July 11, 1857, Reel 74, LC.

  207 “I have been delighted”: Elizabeth to George, June 22, 1857, Folder 51, Collection MC411, SL.

  207 “the kindly, home-like way”: Fourth Annual Report of the New York Infirmary, 7.

  208 “Its funds have been”: “The Woman’s Own Hospital,” New-York Times, July 12, 1858, 4.

  208 “She sprang up”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 210.

  208 “When a woman has won”: “The Position of Women,” Philadelphia Press, August 25, 1857.

  208 “Your kind thought”: Elizabeth to Lady Byron, December 27, 1857, Reel 42, LC.

  CHAPTER 14: RECOGNITION

  210 “I am going to tell you”: Elizabeth to George, June 9, 1858, Folder 51, Collection MC411, SL.

  210 “I should not object”: Emily to George, August 25, 1857, Folder 168, Collection MC411, SL.

  210 “Life in New York”: Elizabeth to George, June 9, 1858, Folder 51, Collection MC411, SL.

  211 “Whatever happened”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 9, 1859, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  211 “very general misapprehension”: Anna Blackwell, “Elizabeth Blackwell,” English Woman’s Journal 1, no. 2 (April 1858): 80.

  211 “incapable of resorting”: Ibid., 94.

  212 “I think it very desirable”: Elizabeth to George, June 9, 1858, Folder 51, Collection MC411, SL.

  212 “An agony of doubt”: Emily’s journal, June 20, 1858, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.

  213 “She needs change”: Emily to George, July 13, 1858, Folder 168, Collection MC411, SL.

  213 “throw Kitty overboard”: Elizabeth to Emily, August 21, 1858, Reel 74, LC.

  213 “Dear Kittykin”: Elizabeth to Kitty, October 1, 1858, Reel 42, LC.

  214 “Having read, small as I was”: Kitty, “Reminiscences,” Folder 650, Collection MC411, SL.

  215 “heartfelt welcome”: Lady Byron et al. to Elizabeth, 1859, Reel 46, LC.

  215 “represents an exaggeratedly”: Elizabeth to Emily, November 1858, Reel 74, LC.

  215 “You can hardly have . . . leech”: Elizabeth, lecture draft, 1859, Reel 44, LC.

  216 “I cannot help thinking”: Elizabeth to Emily, January 11, 1859, Folder 46, Collection MC411, SL.

  217 “She feels”: Ibid.

  217 “She thinks moreover”: Ibid.

  217 “She wishes, I see”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, March 16, 1859, Folder 3, MS#0124, CU.

  217 “I remember my impression”: Florence Nightingale to Elizabeth, February 10, 1859, in Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 217.

  218 “FN’s idea”: Emily to Elizabeth, February 8, 1859, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  218 “Keep quietly clear”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 9, 1859, ibid.

  218 “The most characteristic”: Elizabeth to Emily, January 28, 1859, Folder 50, Collection MC411, SL.

  218 “I can hardly tell you”: Ibid.

  219 “shriek of horror”: Elizabeth to George, February 26, 1859, Folder 51, Collection MC411, SL.

  219 “about 150 people”: Elizabeth to Emily, March 4, 1859, Folder 50, Collection MC411, SL.

  219 “Now, let us for a moment”: “Lectures by a Lady-Doctor,” Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, no. 276 (April 16, 1859): 255–56.

  219 “something definite”: Elizabeth Garrett to Emily Davies, March 23, 1861, Autograph Letters of Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1860–1939, ref. GB 106 9/10, Women’s Library.

  219 “Last night I saw”: Elizabeth to Emily, June 17, 1859, Reel 74, LC.

  219 “I remember feeling”: Elizabeth Garrett to Emily Davies, March 23, 1861, Autograph Letters of Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1860–1939, ref. GB 106 9/10, Women’s Library.

  219 “There is an immense charm”: Elizabeth to Emily, April 15, 1859, Reel 74, LC.

  220 “I do not think you know”: Florence Nightingale to Elizabeth, March 7, 1859, Reel 43, LC.

  220 “They have got so completely”: Emily to Elizabeth, November 21, 1858, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  220 “a younger, less well known”: Emily to Elizabeth, March 16, 1859, ibid.

  220 “My liking is for Europe”: Emily to Elizabeth, January 7, 1859, ibid.

  221 “as her sister, Dr. Emily”: “Passing Events,” English Woman’s Journal 3, no. 13 (March 1859): 72.

  221 “In looking over the book”: Emily to Elizabeth, October 1, 1858, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  221 “She is evidently desirous”: Emily to Elizabeth, October 15, 1858, ibid.

  221 “Z doesn’t even make”: Emily to Elizabeth, January 7, 1859, ibid.

  221 “The whole affair”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 27, 1858, ibid.

  222 “I felt that a larger”: Vietor, Woman’s Quest, 237.

  222 “We can not make the hospital”: Emily to Elizabeth, November 21, 1858, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  222 “If ever I come”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 9, 1859, ibid.

  222 “one of those old”: Ibid.

  222 “I have had our names”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 16, 1859, ibid.

  222 “Blackwell Emily”: Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1859, 78, Digital Collections, New York Public Library.

  222 “Blackwell Elizabeth & Emily”: Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1860, 81, Digital Collections, New York Public Library.

  223 “get people to regard us”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 16, 1859, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  223 “half crazy”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, May 7, 1859, MS#0124, CU.

  223 “I confess I’ve had”: Elizabeth to Emily, April 11, 1859, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  223 “I have only one”: Elizabeth to Emily, June 17, 1859, Reel 74, LC.

  223 “Your registration”: Emily to Elizabeth, July 5, 1859, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.

  CHAPTER 15: WAR

  224 “I wrote the above”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, April 23, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  224 “the overbearing insolence”: Elizabeth to Emily, June 20, 1856, Folder 68, Collection MC411, SL.

  224 “I think it is much more”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, April 13, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  225 “their true position”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 23, 1860, MS#0124, CU.

  225 “I do not look on a good”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, April 13, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  225 “Doubt is disease”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, undated, MS#0124, CU.

  225 “She has taken an extreme”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, December 2, 1860, MS#0124, CU.

  225 “We are compelled”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, April 23, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  226 “To the Women of New York”: “An Appeal,” New-York Times, April 28, 1861.

  226 “God bless the women!”: “Ladies’ Military Relief Meeting at the Cooper Institute,” New-York Tribune, April 20, 1861.

  227 “Every woman is a nurse”: Nightingale, Notes on Nursing, 3.

  227 “There has been a perfect ma
nia”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 5, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  227 Emily even traveled: “A Fragment of Cousin Kitty’s Reminiscences,” dictated by Kitty to George H. Blackwell, August 1933, Collection of Martin Dornbaum and Patricia Simino Boyce, Health Professions Education Center, Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. A second, slightly different version was sent to me by Jane Carey Blackwell Bloomfield, daughter of George H. Blackwell and great-granddaughter of Elizabeth and Emily's youngest brother, George W. Blackwell.

  227 “On the Selection”: “Report Concerning the Woman’s Central Association of Relief at New York to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at Washington, Oct. 12, 1861,” Sanitary Commission No. 32 (New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1861), 24–26.

  228 “Girls of eighteen”: “A Fragment of Cousin Kitty’s Reminiscences,” August 1933.

  229 Bellows’s proposal: “Report Concerning the Woman’s Central Association of Relief at New York to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at Washington, Oct. 12, 1861,” 20.

  229 “to have anything to do”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 5, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  229 “lest our name”: Emily to Barbara Bodichon, June 1, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  229 “Of course as it is essential”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 5, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  229 “Miss Dix, though in many”: Emily to Barbara Bodichon, June 1, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  230 “The government has given”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 5, 1861, MS#0124, CU.

  230 “We completed the 100”: Elizabeth to George, June 7, 1862, Folder 51, Collection MC411, SL.

  230 “They were inclined”: Emily to George, June 16, 1862, Folder 169, ibid.

  230 “commutation”: Hays, Extraordinary Blackwells, 151.

  230 “I have given up”: Emily to George, August 21, 1862, Folder 169, Collection MC411, SL.

  231 “Our carpenter”: Emily to George, September 1, 1862, ibid.

  231 As Kitty remembered it: “A Fragment of Cousin Kitty’s Reminiscences,” dictated by Kitty to George, August 1933.

  232 “The green flickering”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 9, 1863, MS#0124, CU.

  232 “villages of tents”: Elizabeth to Emily and Kitty, June 6, 1864, Reel 55, LC.

  232 “We have had charming”: Elizabeth to Kitty, June 8, 1864, Reel 55, LC.

  232 “making acquaintance”: Ibid.