Notes, Chapter 17

Abbreviations

1. "one of his poems"--quoted in Hanson, Necessary Evil, p. 357.

2. "sleep interrupted it"--ibid., p. 358.

3. "visit it was"--quoted in Ralph L. Rusk, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939), 4, 5.

4. "Quite possible"--untitled newspaper clipping from Philadelphia Bulletin, at MH-T.

5. in "her" roles--Kemble, Records of Later Life, p. 630.

6. "a deeper fall"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 386.

7. "(to look well)"--Jewsbury to CC [February, 1848] in CCP, 11, 3438.

8. social ornament--Dr. W. F. Hardie, "The Muspratts and the British Chemical Industry," Endeavor, 14 (January, 1955): 32.

9. "what I am"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 79.

10. "and no more!"--CC to Coxin, April 28, 1848, in CCP.

11. "you come home again"--quoted in Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 216.

12. "heap of filth"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 399.

13. "mischief in America!"--ibid., p. 358.

14. "expenses were paid"--ibid., p. 397.

15. disinterest in London theatre--Downer, The Eminent Tragedian, p. 288.

16. and the like--Spirit, July 29, 1848, quoted in Downer, The Eminent Tragedian, p. 373.

17. "for want of room"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 400.

18. candles held over head--Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 154.

19. "immature growth"--quoted in Susanne Howe, Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors (London: Allen and Unwin, 1935), pp. 105-110.

20. "circulation in families"--quoted in Hanson, Necessary Evil, p. 358.

21. set of chessmen--Mrs. Victor B. Cushman to I.yman Beecher Stowe, March 18, 1942, at MCR.

22. perhaps even "eminence"--Theatrical Times, 3 (October 21, 1848): 411.

23. "by no means uncommon"--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her sister Arabel, October 22, 1852, at NN.

24. "a lofty position"--January 27, 1849, 4, 23.

25. "It was perfection"--Hull Advertiser, March 9, 1849, at MH-T.

26. "from the stage"--quoted in Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 218.

27. "proved a liar!"--quoted in Charles Haynes Haswell, Reminiscences of an Octogenarian of the City of New York: 1816-1860 (New York: Harpers, 1896), p. 452.

28. "the English hog!"--quoted in Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 220.

29. Washington Irving--William K. Northall, Before and Behind the Curtain; or, Fifteen Years' Observations among the Theatres of New York (New York: Burgess, 1851), p. 142.

30. "him to remain"--Haswell, Reminiscences, p. 453.

31. "Three cheers for Ned Forrest!"--Northall, Before and Behind the Curtain, p. 140.

32. "den of the aristocracy!"--quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 277.

33. people lay dead--Downer, The Eminent Tragedian, p. 306.

34. land she came from--The New York Times, quoted in New York Weekly Yankee, June 23, 1849.

35. "in the case of Mr. Forrest"--Illustrated London News, June 2, 1849, p. 369.

36. "raving madman"--quoted in Dickens, Life, Letters and Speeches, 2, 156 (Dexter edition).

37. "safe and unharmed"--quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 270.

38. "of her time"--Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 66.