Notes, Chapter 18

Abbreviations

1. "go to heaven"--New York Weekly Yankee, August 4, 1849.

2. "Hurray for Our Charlotte!"--quoted in Spirit, September 15, 1849, p. 360.

3. "altogether beyond her"--CC to James T. Fields, September 29, 1849, at MH-T.

4. "other means being open"--CC to Chippendale, September 20, 1849, at MH-T.

5. "subordinate parts!"--quoted in Armstrong, Fanny Kemble, p. 318.

6. right for it--Richard Henry Stoddard, Recollections Personal and Literary (New York: Barnes, 1903), p. 184.

7. "contentious tempers"--Whitman in Brooklyn Eagle, February 12, 1847, quoted in Whitman, Gathering of the Forces, p. 315.

8. faces greeted her--Spirit, October 13, 1849, p. 408.

9. "intellectual jewels"--ibid.

10. "emphatically Our Charlotte"--New York Weekly Yankee, October 20, 1849.

11. "through the senses"--Alfred Ayres quoted in Wilson, History of American Acting, p. 51.

12. "the purest character"--Spirit, October 13, 1849, p. 408.

13. "half her influence"--Barrett, Charlotte Cushman, p. 14.

14. "they ought to come"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 150.

15. Meg her "greatest"--Spirit, January 20, 1849, p. 420.

16. "my finest characters"--quoted in Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 78.

17. "Cush-mania"--Weekly Yankee, November 3, 1849.

18. "Cushmania, Before and After"--cartoon clipping in Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 5, facing p. 242.

19. her vivid splendor--Leon Edel, Henry James: The Untried Years 1843-1870 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953), p. 100.

20. "doing it myself"--quoted in Bradford, Biography and the Human Heart, p. 121.