Notes, Chapter 25

Abbreviations

1. "ashamed to say"--CC to Miss Dorr, September 15, 1860, in CCP.

2. frightened her now--CCP, 1, 137.

3. "as 'Our Charlotte'"--The New York Times, October 1, 1860, p. 5.

4. so "superbly"--ibid., October 26, 1860, p. 5.

5. "not been invited"--CCP, 1, 197.

6. "I can like best"--CC to Sir [1860 or 1861], at MH-T.

7. "'of the Union'"--CC to Wayman Crow, November 6, 1860, in CCP, 1, 206.

8. "respect for Union"--ibid.

9. "a foot hold"--ibid.

10. "old Auntie's notions"--CC to James T. Fields, September 20, 1860, at CSmH.

11. "am and have been"--CC to Annie Fields, November 27 [1860], at CSmH.

12. "seem but twenty-eight"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 139.

13. a "mere willow"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

14. "bigger than I am"--quoted in Richard Lockridge, Darling of Misfortune: Edwin Booth 1833-1893 (New York: Century, 1932), p. 96.

15. "big as a codfish!"--quoted in Winter, Shakespeare on the Stage, p. 480.

16. "Scotch sorceress"--[Paul Akers], "Our Artists in Italy, William Page," Atlantic Monthly, 7 (February, 1861): p. 134.

17. "bottom of the page?"--CC to Annie Fields, December 25, 1860, at CSmH.

18. "amazed at myself"--CC to Emma Crow, January 29, 1861, in CCP, 1, 235.

19. "to meet your wishes"--copy of playbill in CCP, 15.

20. "so strong an arm"--The New York Times, February 26, 1861, p. 4.

21. thousand dollars in gold--CC to Emma Crow, February 26, 1861, in CCP, 1, 241.

22. "the home of the brave"--playbill at MH-T.

23. "with stems"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 9, 1861, in CCP, 1, 248.

24. "Harpers or anybody"--James Fields to CC, May 14, 1861, in CCP, 11, 3293.

25. "all right next fall"--CC to James Fields [May 15, 1861], at CSmH.

26. "to our children"--CC to Algernon Chase, May 2, 1861, in Stowe's note at MCR.

27. "will raise the statue"--CC to James Fields, June 26, 1861, at CSmH.

28. "a million half-alive women"--Higginson's journal, quoted in Mary Thacher Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1846-1906 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921), p. 244.

29. "mission and came away"--CC to Seward, July 9, 1861, in Nicolay Papers at DLC, quoted in David C. Mearns, "Charlotte Cushman's 'True and Faithful' Lincoln: Some Documents with Some Observations," Lincoln Herald, 59 (summer, 1957), p.4.

30. "both to love her"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, July 26, 1861, in CCP, 1, 298.

31. "the Lotus-Eaters"--Hawthorne to Stebbins, June 24, 1861, typescript in collection of Norman Holmes Pearson at CtY.