Notes, Chapter 23

Abbreviations

1. "of popular interest"--quoted in Murdoch, The Stage, p. 239.

2. "more delicate"--Tribune, September 29, 1857, quoted in Odell, Annals, 7, 8.

3. "destiny is fulfilled"--Spirit, October 10, 1857, p. 420.

4. "by emphasis alone"--ibid.

5. "Cooke, Kean, and Macready"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 217.

6. "as well as passion"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at DFo.

7. twenty-seven cents--Hughes, The American Theatre, p. 186.

8. "is better"--CC to Dear Sir, October 9, 1857, at CtY.

9. "like Charlotte Cushman"--quoted in Spirit, November 21, 1857, p. 484.

10. "This I want done"--CC to Julia Ward Howe (date illegible), at MH-T.

11. "about womankind"--Howe to CC, September 20 [1857], in CCP, 11, 3364.

12. returned Julia's play--Julia Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), p. 240.

13. "would have been filled"--quoted in Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, Julia Ward Howe: 1819-1910 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), p. 102.

14. curls to his lips--Emma Crow Cushman's memoirs, p. 2, in CCP, 15.

15. "faithfully by my side"--Major J. B. Pond, Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage (New York: Dillingham, 1900), p. 316.

16. "true and devoted"--CC to Emma Crow, February 3, 1858, in CCP, 1, 49.

17. "look better"--Daily Picayune, February 10, 1858.

18. where she belonged--Reignolds-Winslow, Yesterdays with Actors, p. 20.

19. "without limit"--quoted in Gamaliel Bradford, Union Portraits (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), p. 228.

20. "seldom enjoy"--Seward to CC, May 25, 1858, in CCP, 13, 3700.

21. "almost visibly"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 139.

22. "greatest living actress"--playbill at TxU-T.

23. "strength and power"--quoted in Spirit, June 12, 1858.

24. "stage struck fit"--Ednah D. Cheney, Louisa Mae Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals (Boston: Prang, 1889), p. 99.

25. "the purification of the stage"--Louisa Mae Alcott, Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Boston: Little, Brown, 1944), p. 157.

26. "would be for me"--quoted in Lilian Whiting, Kate Field: A Record (Boston: Little, Brown, 1899), p. 76.

27. "nailed to the masthead"--quoted in Boston Journal, February 18, 1876.

28. "her doing so"--The New York Times, July 7, 1858, p. 4.