Notes, Epilogue

1. "from the world"--New York Tribune, August 16, 1885.

2. "face I ever saw"--quoted in Anderson, Centennial, 9, 324.

3. could "go stainless"--Henry W. Foote quoted in Stebbins, p. 291.

4. "to so many people"--John D. Stockton, "Charlotte Cushman," Scribner's Monthly, 12 (June, 1876): 263.

5. "imperial in Charlotte Cushman"--New York Tribune, February 19, 1876.

6. "in vain for centuries"--quoted in Winter, Other Days, p. 177.

7. a household word--The New York Times, February 19, 1876, p. 6.

8. "in her own realm"--quoted in Price, Life of Charlotte Cushman, p. 176.

9. "stands on the stage"--Stockton, "Charlotte Cushman," p. 265.

10. "the brimming goblet"--newspaper clipping entitled "Charlotte Cushman, J. H. McVicker's Recollection of the Great Actress," at NN-T.

11. "of his possessions"--Lanier to his wife, February 26, 1876, in Anderson, Centennial, 9, 328.

12. "that side of me"--Lanier to his wife, February 27, 1876, in ibid.

13. "helping me"--Sallie Mercer to Dennis R. Alward, December 26, 1884, at MH-T.

14. "Art eternal lives"--"Charlotte Cushman, February 18, 1876," in New York Sunday World, clipping at MH-T.

15. "for a play-actress"--quoted in Winter, Wallet of Time, 1, 159.