Notes, Chapter 26

Abbreviations

1. "laugh who win"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, August 8, 1861, in CCP, 1, 309.

2. "than his duties"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, October 28, 1861, in CCP, 1, 336.

3. "will grow upon him"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, date illegible, in CCP, 2, 499.

4. "to care for a woman"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, October 28, 1861, in CCP, 1, 336.

5. "law for us"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, August 30, 1861, in CCP, 1, 316.

6. "ever shall"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, August 16, 1861, in CCP, 1, 312.

7. "largest good of all"--quoted in Stebbins, pp. 178-79.

8. "tell it him again?"--Emilia Hawkes Venturi to CC, December 15, 1861, in CCP, 11, 3251.

9. "kiss your hands"--CC to Jane Carlyle, January 28, 1862, at ScEN.

10. "of me by you!"--Jane Carlyle to CC, January 31, 1862, CCP.

11. "to write or to talk"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, February 6, 1862, in CCP, 2, 383.

12. "your faithful friend"--CC to Seward, December 4, 1861, at NRU.

13. "our women workers!"--ibid.

14. "develop well"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman [spring, 1862], CCP, 1, 349.

15. her mother's name--CCP, 2, 409.

16. the baby to rear?--CCP, 2, 445.

17. "for God's"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 24, 1862, in CCP, 1, 457.

18. Rotterdam for shipment--CC to James Fields, March 15, 1862, at CSmH.

19. herself to applaud--Stillman, Autobiography, p. 363.

20. "open and malignant"--ibid., p. 360.

21. "they can well bear"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman [May 1, 1862], in CCP, 2, 443.

22. "I know it"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 7, 1862, in CCP, 2, 448.

23. "my time or actions"--CC to Jane Carlyle, July 15, 1862, at SeEN.

24. failed to call--Browning to Isabella Blagden, July 19, 1862, quoted in Edward C. McAleer, Dearest Isa: Robert Browning's Letters to Isabella Blagden (Austin: University of Texas, 1951), p. 111.

25. "doing things in America"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, first week of October, 1862, in CCP, 2, 471.

26. "My soul aches for it"--CC to James Fields, November 21, 1862, at CSmH.

27. "to one of them"--ibid.

28. "Three cheers for Charlotte Cushman!"--Humphrey H. Swift, an eyewitness, to William Winter, October 7, 1906, at DFo.

29. "for 'sair e'en'"--CC to Seward, June 19, 1863, at NRU.

30. "to look further"--Seward to CC, June 20, 1863, in CCP, 13, 3692.

31. remain in the room--Emma Crow Cushman, "Charlotte Cushman, a Memoir," in CCP, 15.

32. "Sallie do?"--CCP, 10, 2921.

33. "continue until then"--quoted in CC to Seward, August 2, 1863, at NRU.

34. "shining upon us"--Seward to CC, July 25, 1863, in CCP, 13, 3963.

35. "and be glad"--CC to Seward, July 21, 1863, at NRU.

36. "over a weak woman"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, February 7, 1863, in CCP, 2, 530.

37. "lives for effects"--Annie Field's diary, September 20, 1863, quoted in Howe, Memories of a Hostess, p. 220.

38. "sleep is thrilling"--ibid., September 26, 1863.

39. to Rebel sympathizers--Joseph George, Jr., "The Night John Wilkes Booth Played Before Abraham Lincoln," Lincoln Herald, 59 (summer, 1957): 12.

40. "of the present age"--Washington Daily Chronicle, October 16, 1863, p.2.

41. edged in ribbon--CC's copy of the program is in CCP, 15.

42. "like the Arc de Triomphe"--Emma Crow Cushman's memoirs, CCP, 15, 5.

43. tickets for $20--The Diary of George Templeton Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1952), p. 37.

44. "success of the year"--Tribune, October 23, 1863, p. 5.

45. two reigning stars--Spirit, October 31, 1863, p. 144.

46. surgical incision (footnote)--cf. Francis Wilson, John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of Lincoln's Assassination (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1929).

47. "save the fight!"--quoted in Morris, Life on the Stage, p. 98.

48. dying in battle--CC's reading copy in CCP, 15.

49. "in the national struggle"--The New York Times, November 9, 1863.