Notes, Chapter 19

Abbreviations

1. "anti-American"--cited in New York Weekly Yankee, December 15, 1849.

2. "attitudinizer"--quoted in Stowe's note, at MCR.

3. turned away hundreds--Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 5, 302.

4. "her poor sisterhood"--ibid., 4, 176.

5. content with her victory--William Corbyn to Ludlow and Smith, November 2, 1849, at MoSHi.

6. "well-puffed star"--Walt Whitman, quoted in Glenn Hughes, A History of the American Theatre 1700--1950 (New York: Samuel French, 1951), p. 147.

7. "ungraceful in the extreme"--quoted in Spirit, December 8, 1849, p. 493.

8. "less acting better"--quoted in Edward Wagenknecht, Longfellow: A Full-Length Portrait (New York: Longmans, Green, 1955), p. 185.

9. "intelligent forehead"--Frederika Bremer, America of the Fifties: Letters of Frederika Bremer (London: American Scandinavian Foundation, 1924), p. 49.

10. "him surely come"--Julia Ward Howe to CC, January 19 [1849], in CCP, 11, 3363.

11. "peculiar class of people"--CC to William Fredericks [January, 1850], at MH-T.

12. "arrest or stoppage"--Corbyn to Ludlow and Smith, December 13, 1849, at MoSHi.