Acknowledgments

In my attempt to revitalize Charlotte Cushman's name, I would be presumptuous and inaccurate to attempt to claim sole credit for whatever is worthy in the following book. As my source notes indicate, my search for the details of her career led me to widely scattered places. In every instance, I was greeted with courtesy and help. While I would wish to thank each of these people by name, space limitations force me to concentrate upon those whose assistance to me caused them the most trouble.

For reasons which they know well, I owe special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Brunt Cushman at Miraleste, California; Professors Ralph H. Gabriel and Norman Holmes Pearson at Yale; Helen D. Willard, curator of the Harvard Library Theatre Collection; Dr. John Broderick and Dr. C. Percy Powell of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division; Dorothy Mason at the Folger Shakespeare Library; J. S. Ritchie at the National Library of Scotland; Eleanor C. Westcott at the Charlotte Cushman Club in Philadelphia; Thomas de Valcourt at Longfellow House in Cambridge; Louis Rachow at the Players Club; June Moll and Frederick J. Hunter at the University of Texas at Austin Library; James Cleveland and Frank Scott at the University of Texas at El Paso Library; Jean McNiece and Robert W. Hill at the New York Public Library; Janet James at the Radcliffe College Library; Gladys E. H. Hosmer; Thomas Kilfoil at the Columbia University Library; Donald Gallup, curator of the American Literature collection at Yale, Professor Leon Howard at UCLA, Professors Napier Wilt and Joshua C. Taylor at the University of Chicago; Jean Preston at the Huntington Library; Phyllis Ball and B. M. Greeley at the University of Arizona Library; Mrs. Lesslie Stockton Howell; John Alden at the Boston Public Library; Frieda C. Thies at the Johns Hopkins Library; Warren G. Wheeler at the Massachusetts Historical Society; David G. Stowe, for his kind permission to use the Cushman materials collected by his father, Lyman Beecher Stowe; Fred Packard, Jack Carson, Edward Sherman, Grace K. Smith, Mary Lillian Collingwood, Hunter Faires, Andrew Cairncross, Francis Fugate, Leonard Sipiora, Pauline Ramsey, and Haywood Antone. All these people have given me help far beyond whatever their roles as librarians, colleagues, or friends could possibly have seemed to require. At the Yale University Press Merle Spiegel and Kathleen Roberts have given me superior guidance.

For kind permission to quote from unpublished manuscripts I am deeply indebted to the following: the Yale University Library, the University of Texas at Austin Library, the Boston Public Library, the Johns Hopkins University Library, the University of Rochester Library, the Missouri Historical Society, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the University of Pennsylvania Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Louisiana State University Library, the New York Historical Society, the Harvard College Library, the Columbia University Library, the Charlotte Cushman Club, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the Princeton University Library, the Woman's Archive at Radcliffe College.

Special acknowledgment is due to the Manuscript Division of The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, for permission to quote from their Miscellaneous Papers, their Gansevoort-Lansing Collection, and their Theatre Collection. For permission to quote from various letters of Charlotte Cushman, I am indebted to the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland and to The Walter Hampden Memorial Library at The Players, New York. Finally, grateful acknowledgment is owed to the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University, the Sidney Lanier Papers, and to The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

I am particularly indebted to former President Joseph M. Ray and Vice President Milton Leech at the University of Texas at El Paso for their interest and for granting me university funds to support my research. Dorothy Ann Leach merits far more than her husband's gratitude for the spirit that unfailingly encouraged my quest.

Joseph Leach

University of Texas at El Paso