4. Ibid., p. 50.
5. Ibid., p. 134.
6. Ibid., p. 154.
7. Ibid., p. 104n.
8. Ibid., p. 182.
9. Ibid., p. 194.
10. Ibid.
11. Graham, p. 3.
12. Ibid., p. 4.
13. Ibid., p. 63.
14. Ibid., pp. 66–67.
15. Ibid., p. 74.
16. Ibid., p. 184.
17. Mossiker, Affair of the Poisons, p. 67.
18. Ibid., p. 119.
19. Lever, p. 11.
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