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- ↑ The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1907, Page 261
- 1 2 3 New England Magazine Company 1908, p. 553-54.
- ↑ Massachusetts 1851, p. 481.
- ↑ Ladies' Physiological Institute (Boston, Mass.) Records, 1848-1966: A Finding Aid, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliff College, Cambridge, MA
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