Notes, Chapter 5

Abbreviations

1. herself in New York--E. Burke Fisher to Francis C. Wemyss, New York, September 27, 1836, at MH-T.

2. of the building--Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 51.

3. night, October 11--H. P. Phelps, Players of a Century: A Record of the Albany Stage: Including Notices of Prominent Actors Who Have Appeared in America (Albany, N.Y.: McDonough, 1880), p. 199.

4. forgot to appear--Eleanor Ruggles, Prince of Players: Edwin Booth (New York: Norton, 1953), p. 8.

5. "lanky girl"--Phelps, Players of a Century, p. 201.

6. "as she deserves"--Spirit, October 22, 1836, p. 284.

7. a practical move--CC, "Extracts from My Journal: The Actress," The Lady's Book and Magazine of Belles Lettres, Fashions, Music, etc., 14 (February, 1837): 70-73.

8. "glory of man"--quoted in Richardson Wright, Forgotten Ladies: Nine Portraits from the American Family Album (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1928), p. 215.

9. "all a bam"--Spirit, October 22, 1836, p. 284.

10. "in love with her"--quoted in Spirit, November 19, 1836, p. 313.

11. "of bright eyes"--quoted in Spirit, November 19, 1836, p. 319.

12. "at the Capitol"--CC quoted in Stebbins, p. 28.

13. the other actors--Stebbins, p. 24.

14. "dear, darling sister"--CCP, 10, 3008.

15. November 4, 1836--George Combe to CC, Edinburgh, Scotland, February 7, 1846 at ScEN.

16. fortunes had taken--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 47.

17. Alexander the Great (footnote)--Phelps, Players of a Century, pp. 203-04.

18. "national jealousy"--quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 147.

19. "the compliment"--December 18, 1836, quoted in Spirit, February 4, 1837, p. 402.

20. "reward the Man"--CC's holograph in CCP, 15.

21. "kept from harm"--quoted in Geraldine Jewsbury to Emma Stebbins, February 6, 1877, CCP, 11, 3462.

22. "in my art"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 24, 1862, CCP, 2, 457.

23. "ever I saw"--quoted in David Belasco, "Women and the Stage," Ladies Home Journal, 37 (November, 1920): 13.

24. attempted the role--Charles E. L. Wingate, Shakespeare's Heroes on Stage (New York: Crowell, 1896), p. 303.

25. "enthusiastic applause"--Albany Advertiser, quoted in Phelps, Players of a Century, p. 204.

26. "than the Albanians"--ibid.

27. Augustus had written--CCP, 10, 3012.

28. "over my soul"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 24, 1862, CCP, 2, 457.