Notes, Chapter 7

Abbreviations

1. "interesting and prominent"--James Rees, The Life of Edwin Forrest: With Reminiscences and Personal Recollections (Philadelphia: Peterson, 1874), p. 379.

2. "more genius"--Brooklyn Eagle, August 14, 1846, recalling earlier performances.

3. louder applause--Spirit, June 30, 1838, p. 153.

4. "brilliant"--Spirit, August 25, 1838, p. 217.

5. "does not play it"--New York Weekly Herald, December 22, 1838, quoted in Jennie Lorenz, "Charlotte Cushman: A Study in Acting" (M.A. thesis, State University of Iowa, 1929), p. 296.

6. "and good benefits"--Spirit, December 22, 1838, p. 353.

7. "beauty of that performance!"--Brooklyn Eagle, August 14, 1846.

8. greedy opportunist--Herbert Marshall and Mildred Stock, Ira Aldridge: The Negro Tragedian (New York: Macmillan, 1958), p. 31.

9. "break my engagement"--Annie H. Brewster, "Miss Cushman," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 124 (August, 1878): 173.

10. to the theatre--untitled newspaper clipping at MH-T.

11. "where they might"--Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, preface to 1867 London edition.

12. "tip off a stick"--Brewster, "Miss Cushman," p. 174.

13. honor and decency--Vandenhoff, An Actor's Note-Book, p. 195.

14. play in her face--CC's promptbook for Oliver Twist at MH-T.

15. "spoke through blood"--Lawrence Barrett describing a later performance, quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 25.

16. "in the play"--Spirit, February 9, 1839, p. 409.

17. "on the Park boards"--Brooklyn Eagle, August 14, 1846.

18. play, The Genoese--Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 4, 174.

19. a popular play--John Howard Payne to CC, CCP, 13, 3635.

20. "to see them"--ibid.

21. "my promise good"--Payne to CC, 86 Frankfurt Street, Saturday, n.d., at NNC.

22. talents be known--Chapman quoted in Philadelphia Times, February 19, 1876.

23. coaxing Sir Peter--Laurence Hutton, Plays and Players (New York: Hurd and Haughton, 1875), p. 229.

24. "prospects before her"--Spirit, August 25, 1838, p. 217.

25. "scold and a vixen"--Spirit, March 28, 1840, p. 48.

26. talented sisters--Spirit, May 9, 1840, p. 120.

27. "part she played"--quoted in Lorenz, Charlotte Cushman, p. 221.

28. actor with blood--J. M. D. Hardwick, Emigrant in Motley (London: Rockliff, 1954), p. 8.

29. one more money--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 47.