Notes, Chapter 6

Abbreviations

1. "cross-bearer"--William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (Boston: Macmillan, 1893), p. 208.

2. "learn it thoroughly"--CCP, 15, 4000.

3. season in September--Stebbins, p. 29.

4. "by a girl"--quoted in George C. D. Odell, Annals of the New York Stage (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 4, 147.

5. if she liked--Harper's Weekly (March 4, 1876): 193.

6. "fight against fate"--quoted from CC's acting version included in F. C. Wemyss, The Modern Standard Drama: A Collection of the Most Popular Acting Plays, with Critical Remarks, also the Stage Business, Costumes, etc. (New York: William Taylor, n.d.), pp. 8-59. CC's own Guy Mannering promptbooks are in CCP.

7. staff, staring--Reignolds-Winslow, Yesterday with Actors, p. 20.

8. "all over me"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 149.

9. have been made--Harper's Weekly (March 4, 1876): 193.

10. "dramatic nondescript"--Murdoch, The Stage, p. 240.

11. "melodramatic monstrosity"--Strang, Players and Plays, 1, 110.

12. as Meg Merrilies--T. Allston Brown, A History of the New York Stage: From the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1903), 1, 243.

13. "or our currency"--Philip Hone, The Diary of Philip Hone 1828-1851, ed. Allan Nevins (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1927), 1, 265.

14. Speed the Plough--Strang, Players and Plays, p. 101.

15. "worthy of you"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 34.

16. "Man, in these!"--CC holograph at MH-H.

17. "for a pedestrian"--Jules Zanger, Captain Frederick Marryat: Diary in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1960), p. 12.

18. Free Press to call--CC to J. S. Baggs, August 8, 1837, at CSmH.

19. a Sheridan play--Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 4, 153.

20. "meal-bag together"--Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker: Or, the Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick of Slickville (New York: Lea and Blanchard, 1843), p. 39.

21. "if possible"--CCP, 13, 3565.

22. a perpetual game--Lydia Maria Child, Letters from New York (New York: Francis, 1844), p. 68.

23. to avoid starvation--ibid, p. 13.

24. tracery and ornament--quoted in Joseph Jay Rubin and Charles H. Brown, Walt Whitman of the New York Aurora: Editor at Twenty-Two (State College, Pa.: Bald Eagle Press, 1950), p. 18.

25. outside of London--quoted in Spirit, February 27, 1836.

26. "loss of reason"--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 47.

27. ingenue roles--William Davidge, Footlight Flashes (New York: American News, 1866), pp. 171-72.

28. so little scope--Odell, Annals, 4, 190.

29. "retroussé"--Joseph N. Ireland, Records of the New York Stage from 1750 to 1860 (New York: Morrell, 1867), 2, 162.

30. "a great eminence"--quoted in Garff B. Wilson, A History of American Acting (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966), p. 22.

31. "surges of the sea"--William Winter quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 405.

32. "Hercules himsel'"--quoted in John Coleman, Fifty Years of an Actor's Life (London: Hutchinson, 1904) 1, 335.

33. "untempered brutality"--Strang, Players and Plays, 1, 74.

34. "Shakespeare more"--quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 403.

35. "of a Man!"--quoted in Coleman, An Actor's Life, 1, 334.

36. "bones of his kindred"--quoted in Moody, Edwin Forrest, p. 96.

37. "snow she died!"--quoted in ibid p. 98.

38. "brusque characters"--New York Herald, September 30, 1837.

39. "unknown young woman"--quoted in Stebbins, pp. 31-32.

40. of his support--James Grant Wilson, The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck (New York: Appleton, 1869), p. 467.

41. "given due recognition"--Adrien de Montfort, "Amateurs and Actors: Random Recollections of the Stage," Spirit of the Times, 91 (April 1, 1876): 180.

42. blocking her way--William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901), p. 361.

43. "the old continent"--quoted in Meade Minigerode, The Fabulous Forties 1840-1850: A Presentation of Private Life (New York: Putnam's, 1924), p. vii.

44. "native music sung"--Spirit, July 28, 1838, p. 185.