Notes, Chapter 30

Abbreviations

1. "all these years!"--quoted in Wingate, Shakespeare's Heroes, p. 235.

2. "to resist the fetters?"--Seward to CC, October 8, 1871, in CCP, 13, 3716.

3. "little of 'decay'"--The New York Times, September 26, 1871, p. 4.

4. "a radiant light"--William Winter, Other Days: Being Chronicles and Memories of the Stage (New York: Moffat, Yard, 1908), p. 159.

5. "in a generation"--New York Standard, September 27, 1871, p. 2.

6. "unfaltering intelligence"--John Rankin Towse, Sixty Years of the Theatre: An Old Critic's Memoirs (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1916), p. 197.

7. "reserved power"--John D. Stockton, "Charlotte Cushman," Scribner's Monthly, 12 (June, 1876): 265.

8. such "little men"--Winter, Shakespeare on the Stage, p. 503.

9. "incarnate power"--Winter, Other Days, p. 153.

10. "age or illness"--Winter, Shakespeare on the Stage, p. 502.

11. "each other hereafter"--Seward to CC, October 8, 1871, in CCP, 13, 3715.

12. dignity and grace--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

13. "left the stage"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

14. "want me the more"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, October 27, 1871, in CCP, 5, 1534.

15. "of genius"--Blagden to CC, n.d., in CCP, 9, 2639.

16. "superfluous on the stage"--quoted in Montrose J. Moses, The Fabulous Forrest: The Record of an American Actor (Boston: Little, Brown, 1929), p. 320.

17. "or even equalled"--a critic's pencillings on a Globe Theatre playbill, November 28, 1871, at CU-B theatre collection.

18. "a feast of mind"--Daily Advertiser supplement, December 9, 1871, in CCP, 15.

19. "woman's heart there"--Annie Fields's diary, November 13, 1871, quoted in Howe, Memories of a Hostess, p. 222.

20. "awful eyes!"--Julian Hawthorne, Memoirs, p. 263.

21. "yet I could not"--Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Harriett Prescott, quoted in Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The Story Of His Life (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), pp. 130-31.

22. "what I've gained"--quoted by Celia Logan in untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T, quoting from an article in New York Sunday Dispatch.

23. "There's the bell"--quoted in James Henry Wiggin, "A House and a Name," pp. 87-97.

24. "I could have received"--CC to unnamed friend, December 31, 1871, quoted in Stebbins, p. 238.

25. "do and be"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 240.

26. "deposited in advance"--CC to Henry A. Willard, November 22, 1871, at NN-T.

27. "'Henry the Eighth'"--quoted in Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life (New York: Macmillan, 1909), p. 359.

28. "the dog's back"--quoted in Mary Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 265.

29. "humanity among them"--quoted in clipping from Harper's, 9, 1876, at MH-T.

30. "demonstrate this"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, January, 1872, in CCP, 5, 1579.

31. "anything of mine"--Longfellow to CC, January 24, 1872, in CCP, 12, 3528.

32. "than to rust out"--CC to Wayman Crow, May 22, 1872, in CCP, 5, 1649.

33. "ha! ha!"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 5, 1872, in CCP, 5, 1638.

34. "shrieking from the theatre"--quoted in Wisner Payne Kinne, George Pierce Baker and the American Theatre (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954), p. 5.

35. "weird it sounded"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 247.

36. "The rest is with God!"--CC to Seward, June 2, 1872, at NRU.

37. "as I please"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 249.

38. "her enter a room"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 299.

39. "I had no house"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 250.

40. "those who love me"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 249.

41. "enough of myself"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 246.

42. "when it came"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, November 18, 1872, in CCP, 6, 1692.

43. "for our church"--quoted in John Bouve Clapp, "Charlotte Cushman, Our Greatest Actress," Boston Evening Transcript, July 22, 1916, section 3, p. 6.

44. "work, work, work"--quoted in Arthur and Barbara Gelb, O'Neill (New York: Harper, 1962), p. 25.

45. "have ever listened to"--quoted in Wilson, History of American Acting, p. 51.

46. "coming now, be jabers!"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at NN-T and untitled clipping from the Christian Register at MH-T.

47. "intense acting"--Chicago Times, December 24, 1872, p. 3.

48. "of the meaning"--Chicago Times, December 31, 1872, p. 8.

49. "'endless'"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 147.

50. to Barrett's eyes--Willie Seymour in an interview with Susan Rice, in Boston Evening Transcript, in clipping dated 1925 at MH-T.

51. "electrified by her genius"--quoted in Kendall, Golden Age, p. 432.

52. could not tolerate--W. Bracken to CC, January 31, 1873, in CCP, 9.

53. "common looking"--CCP, 6, 1751.

54. "poor thrown in"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 155.

55. "one nightmare"--James Gibbons Huneker, Steeplejack (New York: Scribner's, 1922), 1, 84.

56. "with a splendor"--quoted in "Charlotte Cushman, Actress and Woman," Theatre Magazine (September, 1909), clipping at NN-T.

57. "near my heart"--CC to Stebbins, June 26, 1873, quoted in Stebbins, p. 248.

58. "as a whole"--CC to Daly, July 7, 1873, quoted in Joseph Francis Daly, The Life of Augustin Daly (New York: Macmillan, 1917), p. 134.

59. "what is inevitable"--CC to Stebbins, November 26, 1873, quoted in Stebbins, p. 254.

60. "idiotic brain!"--Blair to CC, December 1, 1873, in CCP, 9, 2703.

61. "she does it"--Annie Fields to Laura, March 2, 1874, at CSmH.

62. "cara amica"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 271.

63. "tell me I am"--CC to Mrs. Booth, July 27, 1874, at MH-T.