Notes, Chapter 2

Abbreviations

1. "of human hopes"--quoted in Ralph L. Rusk, The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York: Scribner's, 1949), p. 136.

2. "duly keep"--from the introductory poem to Emerson's essay, "Compensation," published in 1841.

3. "his own esteem"--Rusk, Life of Emerson, p. 158.

4. "plump, round, rosy"--recollections of an unidentified old man who knew Charlotte Cushman, quoted in an untitled newspaper clipping at NN-T.

5. "got from below"--Emerson quoted in Rusk, Life of Emerson, p. 159.

6. church each Sunday--Rusk, Life of Emerson, p. 141.

7. enjoy the theatre--James Henry Wiggin, "Some Interesting But Little Known Facts About Charlotte Cushman," Coming Age (March, 1900): 225.

8. "Farewell, My Love"--Clara Erskine Clement, Charlotte Cushman (Boston: Osgood, 1882), p. 3.

9. surprised even him--John Paddon quoted in Boston Transcript, April 13, 1885.

10. "of her glory"--Frances Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans (New York: Knopf, 1949), p. 337.

11. a troubling dilemma--Mary Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," The People's Journal, 2 (July 18, 1846): 31.

12. perhaps, began--Walt Whitman, New York Dissected: A Sheaf of Recently Discovered Newspaper Articles by the Author of the Leaves of Grass, ed. Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari (New York: Wilson, 1936), pp. 18-19.

13. "fortune I coveted"--CCP, 15, E. Stebbins's ms. of Charlotte Cushman's recollections.

14. "cheerfully die tomorrow"--quoted in New York Sunday Morning News, January 3, 1836.

15. intellectual universe--W. S. Tryon, Parnassus Corner: A Life of James T. Fields: Publisher to the Victorians (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963), p. 24.

16. recognized talent--Clara Fisher Maeder, Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder (New York: Dunlap Society, 1897), p. xv.

17. core of her life--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 30.

18. "make her happy"--CCP, 10, 3013.

19. astonished to comment--Gamaliel Bradford, "Charlotte Cushman," Biography and the Human Heart (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932), p. 110.

20. "reading this letter"--CCP, 14, 3932.

21. audiences to tears--Oral Sumner Coad and Edwin Mims, Jr., The American Stage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929), p. 98.

22. moving the hands--Maeder, Autobiography, p. 92.

23. New York since 1824--Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock, The Opera: A History of its Creation and Performance: 1600-1941 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941), p. 94.

24. to the Tremont Theatre--Wiggin, "A House and a Name," p. 87.

25. "flexible, and sweet"--quoted in Edward G. Fletcher, "Charlotte Cushman's Theatrical Debut," Studies in English, The University of Texas Publication No. 4026 (Austin, Texas, July 8, 1940): 167.

26. "success was brilliant"--Boston Daily Atlas, April 11, 1835, quoted in Fletcher, "Theatrical Debut," p. 168.

27. showed much promise--Atlas, April 18, 1835, quoted in Fletcher, "Theatrical Debut," p. 169.

28. "his fortune--perhaps"--Spirit of the Times, April 18, 1835.

29. "the substantial cause"--Paddon, Boston Transcript, April 13, 1835, quoted in Fletcher, "Theatrical Debut," p. 171.

30. "for her success"--ibid., p. 174.

31. on the first occasion--The Pearl, quoted in Fletcher, "Theatrical Debut," p. 173.

32. "beside Mrs. Wood"--quoted in Fletcher, "Theatrical Debut," p. 175.

33. side of morality--Charles Durang, The History of the Philadelphia Stage between the Years 1749 and 1855 (published serially in the Philadelphia Dispatch, May 7, 1854 through July 8, 1860, and arranged as an unpublished scrapbook by Thompson Westcott), 4, 174.

34. and marry him--New York Sunday Dispatch, quoted in Celia Logan, untitled newspaper clipping in MH-T.