Notes, Chapter 29

Abbreviations

1. "for a day or two"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 91.

2. "be lifted up again"--Stebbins to Emma Crow Cushman, August 26, 1869, in CCP, 13.

3. "Your loving Auntie"--CC to Ned Cushman, August, 1869, in CCP, 4, 1179.

4. "would na say so"--Stebbins to Emma Crow Cushman, September 11, 1869, in CCP, 13.

5. "will trust in Him"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, August, 1869, in CCP, 8.

6. "very well, lately"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 92.

7. "buried Caesars"--CC to Seward, March 26, 1870, at NRU.

8. "end my days"--ibid.

9. "sooner or later"--CC to Seward, May 10, 1870, at NRU.

10. "help her endure"--Stebbins to Emma Crow Cushman, July 24, 1870, in CCP, 13.

11. "last Thursday"--CC to Dear Friend [c. June 12, 1870], at PPHi.

12. "great in art"--Marston, Our Recent Actors, 2, 82.

13. "betimes, or never"--Hawthorne, Marble Faun, p. 461.

14. "ever to leave"--CC to Dear Friend, September 13, 1874, at CSmH.

15. swirls of snow--Maud Howe Elliott, This Was My Newport (Cambridge, Mass.: Mythology, 1944), p. 83.

16. to be amused--Mary Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 244.

17. "when to retire!"--CC to Annie Fields, January 5, 1871, at CSmH.

18. "not be justified"--CC to Emily Warren, March 29, 1871, quoted in Stowe's note, at MCR.

19. "to stand pat"--CC to James Fields, March 30, 1871, at CSmH.

20. "wiser and nobler"--Annie Field's diary, April 27, 1871, quoted in Howe, Memories of a Hostess, p. 221.

21. "not overdo myself"--CC to Booth, July 25, 1871, at NNP.

22. "as a finality"--CC to Booth, July 12, 1871, at NNP.

23. "to do so"--CC to Dr. Bliss, July 25, 1871, at MH-T.

24. "can make money"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 25, 1871, in CCP, 5, 1477.