Notes, Chapter 3

Abbreviations

1. "unkindness to me"--CC to Sam Judd, New Orleans, June 1, 1836, at NNHi.

2. several Italian musicians--Mrs. John Drew, Autobiographical Sketch of Mrs. John Drew (New York: Scribner's, 1899), p. 73.

3. arriving each autumn--Tyrone Power, Impressions of America: During the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836), 2, 145.

4. city with gas--Spirit of the Times, November 19, 1836, p. 316.

5. had erected it--Rober Tallant, The Romantic New Orleanians (New York: Dutton, 1950), p. 191.

6. could match it--Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 182.

7. even a veteran--Catherine Mary Reignolds-Winslow, Yesterdays with Actors (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1887), p. 25.

8. had other resources--Murdoch, The Stage, p. 235.

9. "taste nor skill"--quoted in John S. Kendall, The Golden Age of the New Orleans Theatre (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952), p. 126.

10. transplant from England--Nelle Smither, "Charlotte Cushman's Apprenticeship in New Orleans," Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 31 (October, 1948): 978.

11. "with success"--Bee, April 12, 1836.

12. "not a singer"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 22.

13. "badly stage-struck"--Clara Fisher Maeder in New York Dramatic Mirror, February 13, 1897, clipping at MH-T.

14. "the lower one"--CC to Stebbins, CCP, 15, 3997.

15. "you must succeed"--quoted in The New York Times, February 19, 1876, p. 6.

16. with a kiss--Lewis C. Strang, Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century (Boston: Page, 1903), p. 112.

17. as an actor--Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 49.

18. character on stage--H. Barton Baker, The London Stage: Its History and Traditions from 1576 to 1888 (London: Allen, 1889), 2, 162.

19. "a competent teacher"--quoted in Smither, "Apprenticeship," p. 979.

20. over the shoulders--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 32.

21. "pantheress let loose"--The New York Times, February 19, 1876, p. 7.

22. "on the stage"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

23. "members of the company"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 23.

24. to straight drama--Bee, April 25, 1836, p. 2.

25. her special powers--James Rees, The Dramatic Authors of America (Philadelphia: Zieber, 1845), p. xi.

26. to her salary--Smither, "Apprenticeship," p. 980.

27. by the twenty-fifth--CC to Judd, June 1, 1836, at NNHi.