233 “Why don’t you go up . . . quite in luck”: Ibid.
234 “handsome dark eyed . . . young Doctor”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 16: COLLEGE
235 “They have each quite”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, January 14, 1861, MS#0124, CU.
235 “I am sick of the farce”: Emily to Elizabeth, November 10, 1858, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
235 “It is the old difference”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, January 14, 1861, MS#0124, CU.
236 “sentimental air . . . doing”: Emily to Elizabeth, May 10, 1859, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
236 “If we could have joined”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 9, 1863, MS#0124, CU.
236 “Being the first”: Second Annual Announcement and Constitution of the New York Medical College for Women and Hospital for Women and Children (New York, 1864), 7.
236 “The true plan”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, June 9, 1863, MS#0124, CU.
237 “a vulgar little class”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, January 18, 1865, in Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 236.
237 “We believe that the time . . . kind of disease”: Blackwell, Medical Education of Women.
238 “It is knowledge”: Ibid.
238 “to enable the corporation”: Constitution and By-Laws of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and Woman’s Medical College (New York: Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, 1864).
238 “the San Greal”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, September 7, 1864, in Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 237.
238 “The great secret”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, May 23, 1865, ibid., 240.
239 “The circle is broken”: Emily’s journal, March 5, 1866, Folder 80, Collection A77, SL.
239 “I had built”: Anna to Blackwell family, March 20, 1866, Folder 22, Collection MC411, SL.
239 “Whether I shall really”: Anna to Elizabeth, April 2, 1866, Reel 71, LC.
239 “a kind of ‘social evil’ ”: Elizabeth Garrett to Louisa Garrett Smith, November 22, 1862, Women's Library.
239 “Science, at best”: “Shall Women Be Doctors?” Lancet 2 (August 3, 1861): 117.
239 “In Miss Garrett”: “Medical News,” British Medical Journal 2 (July 14, 1866): 62.
240 “I have had an unexpected”: Elizabeth to Marian, October 5, 1866, Reel 76, LC.
240 “a very talented girl”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, April 25, 1860, MS#0124, CU.
241 “Little Miss Putnam”: Elizabeth to Marian, October 5, 1866, Reel 76, LC.
241 “a great Spiritualist”: Mary Putnam to Victorine Putnam, October 21, 1866, in Putnam, Life and Letters of Mary, 99.
241 “They will, as always”: Emily to Elizabeth, July 21, 1866, Folder 163, Collection MC411, SL.
242 “The Eye and its Appendages”: Rebecca J. Cole, “The Eye and its Appendages, Submitted as a Thesis to the Faculty of Female Medical College of Pennsylvania,” February 1867, Drexel University Archives and Special Collections.
242 “carried on this work”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 228.
242 “the respectability of a household”: Rebecca J. Cole, “First Meeting of the Women’s Missionary Society of Philadelphia,” Woman’s Era 3, no. 4 (October 1896).
242 “Emily . . . does grandly”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, January 13, 1867, in Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 245.
243 “When you write”: Emily to George, April 18, 1867, Folder 169, Collection MC411, SL.
243 “True growth”: Blackwell, Address Delivered at the Opening, 3–4, Reel 48, LC.
243 board of examiners: “The Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary,” 1st catalog/announcement, 1868, Reel 48, LC.
243 “This school is the only one”: Blackwell, Address Delivered at the Opening, 13.
244 “keen intuition”: “The Woman’s Medical College,” New-York Times, November 3, 1868, 8.
245 “I’m afraid she won’t”: Elizabeth to Barbara Bodichon, October 28, 1868, CU, in Sahli, “Blackwell.: A Biography,” 165.
245 “If I am to be a doctor”: Sophia Jex-Blake’s journal, April 12, 1868, in Todd, Life of Jex-Blake, 200.
245 “to which she instantly”: Sophia Jex-Blake to Mary Jex-Blake, November 8, 1868, ibid., 206.
245 “In 1869 the early”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 241.
246 “Partnership (of 10 years”: Emily? Notes on partnership, 1869, Folder 191, Collection MC411, SL.
246 “If you would take a peep”: Kitty to Alice, July 10, 1869, Reel 55, LC.
247 wrote a will: Elizabeth’s will, July 14, 1869, Folder 81, Collection MC411, SL.
247 “They claim me”: Elizabeth to Samuel Willetts, October 18, 1869, Folder 62, ibid.
247 “I am settled”: Elizabeth to Kitty, February 23, 1870, Reel 55, LC.
248 “I did not indulge”: Emily to Elizabeth, October 11, 1869, Folder 164, Collection MC411, SL.
248 “I would sink”: Elizabeth to Emily, January 4, 1870, Folder 46, ibid.
248 “I can see very well”: Emily to Elizabeth, 1869, Folder 183, ibid.
248 “build up a little group”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 13, 1870, Folder 164, ibid.
249 “It seemed as though everything”: Ibid.
249 “a graceful & entirely”: Ibid.
249 “Aunt Emily made”: Kitty to Alice, April 5, 1870, Reel 55, LC.
CHAPTER 17: DIVERGENCE
250 “Miss Garrett”: Elizabeth to Emily, August 20, 1869, Folder 46, Collection MC411, SL.
250 “I do indeed congratulate”: Elizabeth to Sophia Jex-Blake, in Todd, Life of Jex-Blake, 264.
251 “Neither Miss Putnam”: Elizabeth to Emily, August 1870, Folder 50, Collection MC411, SL.
251 “I could not have imagined”: Elizabeth to Emily, May 14, 1870, Folder 46, Collection MC411, SL.
252 “You can help me so much”: Elizabeth to Kitty, October 12, 1869, in Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 280.
252 “fitted herself into all”: “In Memory of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Emily Blackwell, January 25, 1911,” NYAM, 12–13.
252 “Prevention is better”: Blackwell, Pioneer Work, 247.
253 “that direful purchase”: Ibid., 243.
254 “exquisite spiritual joys”: Blackwell, Counsel to Parents, 56.
254 “It might almost be read aloud”: Emily to Lucy Stone, January 29, 1879, LC, in Sahli, “Blackwell: A Biography,” 235.
254 “a well-established fact”: Blackwell, Human Element in Sex, 51.
255 “is largely under the control”: Blackwell, How to Keep a Household in Health, 9.
256 “From the outset of marriage”: Blackwell, Medical Address on Malthus, 34.
256 “A man who commits rape”: Ibid., 28.
256 “To a hygienic”: Elizabeth, Pioneer Work, 239.
257 “really of tremendous practical”: Elizabeth to Annie Leigh Browne, April 1902, in Boyd, Excellent Doctor Blackwell, 293.
257 “My ‘Test’ ”: Elizabeth to Emma Stone Blackwell, July 6, 1894, in Sahli, “Blackwell: A Biography,” 341.
257 “I am utterly unwilling”: Emily to Elizabeth, June 15, 1870, Folder 164, Collection MC411, SL.
258 “I cannot describe the shock”: Emily to Elizabeth, August 25, 1870, ibid.
258 “I do not know whether”: Emily to Elizabeth, October 6, 1871, ibid.
258 “It is utterly impossible”: Elizabeth to Mary Putnam, December 31, 1871, in Putnam, Life and Letters of Mary, 307.
259 “It is your mind”: Mary Putnam Jacobi to Elizabeth, December 25, 1888, Reel 43, LC.
259 “She is a bright”: Emily to Kitty, November 14, 1871, Folder 180, Collection MC411, SL.
259 clutching the banister: Emily to Kitty, July 31, 1871, Reel 55, LC.
259 rows of kisses: Nannie to Emily, January 24, 1884, Folder 713, Collection MC411, SL.
260 “They have put down”: Emily to Elizabeth, November 25, 1873, Folder 164, ibid.
261 “You ought to have a partner”: Emily to Alice, Jan
uary 14, 1884, Reel 73, LC.
261 “like a butcher’s”: Emily to Alice, March 9, 1884, Reel 73, LC.
261 “a remarkably lovely woman”: Mary Putnam Jacobi to Elizabeth, December 25, 1888, Reel 43, LC.
261 “No one could be more kind”: Emily to Elizabeth, February 26, 1896, Reel 74, LC.
261 “The last days”: Elizabeth Cushier to Emily, September 14, n.d., Folder 187, Collection MC411, SL.
262 “On the top floor”: “Woman’s Medical College Burned,” New-York Tribune, April 23, 1897, 4.
262 “We have taken the next”: Emily to Elizabeth, April 27, 1897, Reel 74, LC.
262 “Women students need”: “In Connection with the Burning of the College Building . . . ,” pamphlet, NYAM.
263 “at first in derision”: “Woman Doctors’ College Burned,” Sun (New York), April 23, 1897, 8.
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264 “I understand that is”: “Institution May Close,” New-York Tribune, May 24, 1899, 5.
264 “They have a million”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 27, 1898, Reel 74, LC.
265 “The graduates think”: “Confirmed by Dr. Loomis,” New-York Tribune, May 25, 1899, 9.
265 “had held open the door”: Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, 321 East 15th Street, Final Catalogue and Announcement, June 1899, 14.
265 “In every city”: Ibid., 15.
265 Of the eighteen women: “Its Last Commencement,” Sun (New York), May 26, 1899, 4.
266 “You will be brought . . . her sons”: Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, 321 East 15th Street, Final Catalogue and Announcement, June 1899, 18–19.
266 “I am glad to feel”: Emily to Elizabeth, December 13, 1899, Reel 74, LC.
266 “I remember how I trembled”: “In Memory of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and Dr. Emily Blackwell, January 25, 1911,” NYAM, 23–24.
267 “It is only when we have learned”: Blackwell, Religion of Health, 22.
268 In 1910: Walsh, “Doctors Wanted,” 186.
268 Today thirty-five percent: Federation of State Medical Boards, “FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018,” Journal of Medical Regulation 105, no. 2 (2018): 7–23, https://www.fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/publications/2018census.pdf
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