(en-US) Joan Waugh, Unsentimental Reformer: The Life Of Josephine Shaw Lowell, Harvard University Press, , 296 p. (ISBN9780674930360, lire en ligne), p. 215
Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, Ipswich, Massachusetts, Literary Reference Center, (ISBN9780521402583, lire en ligne), « Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) »
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(en) Sophia Jex-Blake, Medical women : a thesis and a history, Oliphant, Anderson et Ferrier, 1886, p. 34 : « When in Paris, in 1868, I found that Miss Mary Putnam of New York was quietly studying there with permission of the authorities ».