Notes, Chapter 20

Abbreviations

1. "touching their sympathies"--Daily Picayune, February 12, 1850, p. 2.

2. "in writing!"--quoted in Coad and Mims, American Stage, p. 176.

3. to greater receipts--C. W. Couldock to J. F. Pray, March 27, 1850, in CCP, 10, 2980.

4. "remarkably well"--Daily Picayune, February 12, 1850.

5. Portnam Square rooms--referred to by Chorley to CC, March 7, 1850, in CCP, 10, 2933.

6. bought him easily--Longfellow's journal, ms. at Longfellow House, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

7. "not over-courteous"--CC to J. C. Adams, April 19 [1850], at NN.

8. "peculiarly fine"--Aloysius I. Mudd, "The Theatres of Washington from 1835 to 1850," Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 6 (1903): 261.

9. "free list" entirely--quoted in Wilson, History of American Acting, p. 48.

10. "in the land"--Spirit, May 18, 1850, p. 156.

11. "view of the stage"--Literary World, 7 (September 7, 1850): 195.

12. "than in this country"--Longfellow's journal.

13. their bright friends, the Carlyles--Whittier to CC, November 10, 1868, CCP, 14, 3907.

14. "very agreeable" visit--Longfellow's journal.

15. "in that respect"--CC to Mrs. Mann, at MBHi.

16. "not this fall"--CC to Fredericks, September 15, 1850, at MH-T.

17. $5 per head--Literary World, 7 (September 7, 1850): 195.

18. "might be excited"--CC to Fredericks, September 19 [1850], at MH-T.

19. "shame and disgust"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

20. farewell some months hence?--CC to Fredericks, November 8, 1850, at MH-T.

21. "damn fool head off!"--quoted in Clara Morris, Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections (New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901), p. 131.

22. "cleverest young man I have seen"--CC to Fredericks, January 5, 1851, at MH-T.

23. bleak crumpled reflection--this Clarke report is from an untitled newspaper clipping by Celia Logan at MH-T, quoting an undated article in the New York Sunday Dispatch by Don Piatt, and from a letter from Kathryn M. Miller to Lyman Beecher Stowe, dated January 15, 1941, in Stowe's notes at MCR.

24. "worn out with it"--CC to Fredericks, January 5, 1851, at MH-T.

25. brains--or feelings?--ibid.

26. white children, or else--Bede, "Miss Cushman," pp. 338-39.

27. hard on her nerves--E. Dunbar to Chloe Dunbar [March 10, 1851] at LU.

28. "nights to me"--CC to Sol Smith, February 25, 1851, at MoSHi.

29. "those actors"--quoted in Matthews and Hutton, Macready and Forrest, p. 11.

30. "challenged even Rachel"--Tallis's Dramatic Magazine (February, 1851): 103.

31. burst into cheers--Mrs. John Greene, Married Life on the Stage, quoted in Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 5, 218.

32. "forget your business"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

33. with her heels--Clement, Charlotte Cushman, pp. 68-69.

34. "reed-like Meg Merrilies"--Chicago Daily Journal, July 31, 1851, quoted in Napier Wilt, "The History of the Rice Theatres" (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1923), p. 154.

35. "to act with novices"--CC to J. B. Wright, September 30, 1851, in Locke Collection Scrapbook, 139, at NN-T.

36. "my return from Europe"--CC to Wright, October 14, 1851, quoted in untitled newspaper clipping from Boston Evening Transcript, July 22, 1916, at MH-T.

37. her legally adopted son--CC to Mitchell, November 29, 1851, at NjP.

38. "as of disappointment"--Longfellow's journal, November 5, 1851.

39. "to do it myself!"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 68.

40. "It was grand"--Harriet Hosmer to Miss Carr, January, 1852, quoted in Cornelia Carr, Harriet Hosmer: Letters and Memories (London: Moffat, Yard, 1913), p. 17.

41. "in so short a time"--ibid.

42. doors might open--Lydia Maria Child, "Harriet E. Hosmer, a Biographical Sketch," The Ladies' Repository, 21 (January, 1861).

43. "my best friend"--Lydia Maria Child, quoted in James Parton et al., Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation (Hartford, Conn.: Betts, 1868), p. 596.

44. near the White House--CC to Seward, January 18, 1852, at NRU.

45. "yours very truly, Charlotte Cushman"--CC to Chippendale, February 23, 1852, at MH-T.

46. "retirement from the Stage"--playbill in CCP, 15.

47. "she wishes it"--Hawthorne to Greenwood, April 17, 1852, typescript in collection of Norman Holmes Pearson at CtY.

48. "my Penates"--CC to Longfellow, June 13, 1852, at MH-T.

49. "that milks me"--quoted in Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 6, 363.

50. "weary beyond description"--CC to James Brown, May 15, 1852, at MH-T.

51. "ever forget that?"--New York Empire City clipping, 1852, at DFo.

52. "from the profession"--Spirit, May 8, 1852, p. 144.