Notes, Chapter 14

Abbreviations

1. "was not married"--CC to unnamed person, n.d., at MH-T.

2. "virtuous society"--Combe to CC, December 25, 1845, at ScEN.

3. "the slander boldly"--CC to unnamed person, n.d., at MH-T.

4. "names is false"--Combe to CC, Edinburgh, December 25, 1845.

5. "a lazy company"--CC to Webster, Tuesday noon, at MH-T.

6. to leave the cast--Stebbins, pp. 58-59.

7. "to be a boy"--quoted in N. M. Ludlow, Dramatic Life as I found It: A Record of Personal Experience, etc. (St. Louis, Mo.: Jones, 1880), p. 316.

8. "maiden modesty"--John Bull, January 3, 1846, p. 12.

9. "dangerous young man"--quoted in Elizabeth M. Puknat, "Romeo Was a Lady: Charlotte Cushman's London Triumph," New York Theatre Annual, 9 (1951): 66.

10. "in actual life"--Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 76.

11. marry her sister--quoted in "Charlotte Cushman," The Nation, 19 (November 12, 1874): 314.

12. the ringing applause--John Bull, January 3, 1846, p. 12.

13. "ardent human being"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 60.

14. "Miss O'Niel"--quoted in Stebbins, pp. 60-61.

15. "how to go on"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 63.

16. "considerable merit"--John Bull, January 3, 1846, p. 12.

17. "at 1/4 before 10?"--note from Samuel Rogers to CC, at CSmH.

18. "with Miss Cushman"--Jane Welsh Carlyle to Babbie [January 19, 1846], at ScEN.

19. "a week as 'Romeo'"--Illustrated London News, January 24, 1846, p. 59.

20. "storm was on"--quoted in Spirit, July 4, 1846.

21. "black forever"--Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, January 31, 1846, in Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1, 443.

22. "by the ultimate result?"--Combe to CC, February 7, 1846, at ScEN.

23. "think of it"--quoted in Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 77-78.

24. "but the mind"--quoted in Bede, "Miss Cushman," p. 338.

25. "the mother's favorite"--CCP, 11, 3466.

26. "as Daniel Webster's"--Washington Union, July 13, 1846, quoted in Hershel Parker, "Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London Journal," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 69 (December, 1965; January, 1966; February, 1966): 634.

27. "when I left"--quoted in ibid., 70 (January, 1966): 38.

28. "escorting Miss Susan"--quoted in ibid., p. 44.

29. "for some time"--quoted in ibid., p. 48.

30. thirty performances--Wemyss, Modern Standard Drama, 10, 5.

31. "forbid the bans!"--quoted in George Vandenhoff, Dramatic Reminiscences; Or, Actors and Actresses in England and America (London: Cooper, 1860), p. 292.

32. "aslape in the cheer!"--quoted in ibid.

33. "bore it down"--quoted in Coleman, An Actor's Life, 2, 346.

34. "if he dared!"--quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 227.

35. "It is Forrest"--quoted in Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 329.

36. "Bra-vo, Char-let!"--quoted in Harper's Weekly, March 4, 1876, p. 193.

37. "mere scenic illusion"--quoted in New York Herald, May, 2, 1846, p. 138.

38. "choose to assert"--CC to Combe, April 1, 1846, at ScEN.

39. "and a woman"--quoted in New York Sunday Dispatch, September 6, 1846.