Notes, Chapter 16

Abbreviations

1. "any other country"--Pennsylvanian, June 15, 1847.

2. "may retire forever"--Spirit, June 12, 1847, p. 179.

3. "hand or foot or eyelash"--Chorley to CC, May 8, 1847, in CCP, 10, 2955.

4. "may attain a century"--Theatrical Times, July 31, 1847, p. 243.

5. "an untried work?"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Mitford, February 8, 1847, quoted in Kenyon, Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1, 321.

6. "our next campaign"--Theatrical Times, 2 (August 14, 1847): 252.

7. "as I am doing!"--quoted in The New York Times, May 26, 1878, p. 10.

8. half a million--Lathrop, Memories of Hawthorne, p. 267.

9. "as something amusing"--Spectator, October 9, 1847.

10. "for the civility"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 373.

11. "frigid mannerisms"--quoted in a note by L. B. Stowe at MCR.

12. "off the stage"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

13. "true friends!"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 373.

14. "of her success"--Spectator, October 9, 1847.

15. "to get on"--CC to Povey, October 17, 1847, at NNP.

16. "to witness it"--London Examiner, October 9, 1847, quoted in Yeater, "Charlotte Cushman," p. 55.

17. "the theatre myself"--quoted in Fitzgerald, Letters to Fanny Kemble, p. 177.

18. "to the world"--London Athenaeum (1854): 447.

19. "bonnet-strings"--Chorley to CC, October 28, 1847, in CCP, 10, 2951.

20. "duplicity and meanness"--William Winter, Shakespeare on the Stage (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1911), p. 556.

21. grunt of relief--Henry Austin Clapp, Reminiscences of a Dramatic Critic (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902), p. 88.

22. "the source of tears"--ibid., p. 90.

23. good to the part?--referred to by Chorley to CC, October 28, 1847, in CCP, 10, 2951.

24. "are my critics?"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 374.

25. "histrionic poetry"--quoted in Price, Life of Charlotte Cushman, pp. 150-51.

26. "you played the part"--Chorley to CC, October 28, 1847, in CCP, 10, 2951.

27. "none in England"--CC to Povey, October 17, 1847, at NNP.

28. "multitude thought of me"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 376.

29. "go to hell"--ibid., p. 375.

30. "more deliberate judgment"--Macready to CC, November 2, 1847, in CCP, 12, 3538.

31. "of the sublime"--Theatrical Times, 2 (November 13, 1847): 355.

32. "a very pleasing actress"--ibid., August 21, 1847, p. 258.

33. offended the ear--ibid., November 13, 1847, p. 355.

34. "had been talked"--quoted in Leonard Huxley, Jane Welsh Carlyle: Letters to Her Family, 1839-1863 (Garden City, N.Y.: Murray, 1924), pp. 303-04.

35. "and good sense"--Elizabeth Davis Bancroft, Letters from England 1846-1849 (New York: Scribner's, 1904), p. 156.

36. "reserve about acting"--Charles and Frances Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle (New York: Scribner's, 1906), p. 251.

37. "Will it wash?"--George W. Bell to Charles Cushman, in CCP, 9, 2661.

38. "to Dr. Muspratt"--CC to Mrs. Howitt, December 5, 1847 at PU.

39. to Mrs. Mowatt--Anna Cora Mowatt, Autobiography of an Actress; or, Eight Years on the Stage (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854), pp. 273-75.

40. "of genteel comedians"--quoted in Mary Caroline Crawford, The Romance of the American Theatre (New York: Little Brown, 1940), p. 450.