Notes, Chapter 31

1. "some respectable graveyard"--CC to her mother, May 1, 1845, quoted in Stebbins, p. 50.

2. "dear old Boston"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at NN-T.

3. "thank God for it"--quoted in Emma Crow Cushman's memoirs in CCP, 15.

4. "for me to say"--CC to Dexter Smith, October 24, 1874, in untitled newspaper clipping at MH-T.

5. "in me in 1857"--Pond, Eccentricities of Genius, p. 316.

6. "to be seen no more"--quoted in The Republic, n.p., n.d., in CCP, 15.

7. "engagement in New York"--CC to Algernon Sullivan, quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 125.

8. "Noble boy!"--quoted in Winter, Other Days, pp. 162-64.

9. "sea of admiration"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping in Ireland, scrapbook of New York actors and actresses at CtY.

10. "Sarah Siddons"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping at MH-T.

11. "symphony of Beethoven"--Henry Austin Clapp, "Dramatic Critic," p. 352.

12. "intellectual character"--untitled contemporary newspaper clipping in Ireland, scrapbook at CtY.

13. "or the public"--quoted by George W. Bell to Ned Cushman, May 20, 1876, in CCP, 9, 2661.

14. "their 'big mama'"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 265.

15. "is thine for life"--CC's copy of the poem in CCP, 15.

16. "Our most illustrious queen!"--quoted in Stebbins, pp. 259-62.

17. "a beating heart"--Bryant's holograph in CCP, 15.

18. "God be with you"--CC's holograph in CCP, 15.

19. "Shakespeare, Miss Cushman"--quoted in Winter, Other Days, pp. 165-66.

20. "an hundred years on thee"--Hutton, Plays and Players, p. 233.