Notes, Chapter 8

Abbreviations

1. "in my heart"--CC to Judd, July 23 [1840] at MCR.

2. eight years before--Margaret Armstrong, Fanny Kemble: A Passionate Victorian (New York: Macmillan, 1938), p. 159.

3. wrote Sam Judd--CC to Judd, October, 1840, at MCR.

4. in her career--Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 4, 172.

5. Nicholas Nickleby--ibid., p. 173.

6. "up her mind"--quoted in W. T. Price, A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New York: Brentano's, 1894), p. 49.

7. "bloomed and flourished"--Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 4, 173.

8. "once a favorite"--CC to Judd, October, 1840.

9. "inferior" to her--Armstrong, Fanny Kemble, p. 176.

10. found her "marvelous"--Frank Preston Stearns, The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Lippincott, 1906), p. 231.

11. "acquaintance," Fanny wrote--Fanny Kemble to CC, CCP, 9, 2763.

12. "to visit me"--Kemble to CC, CCP, 9, 2759.

13. "opportunity of seeing"--Francis Courtney Wemyss, Twenty-Six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager: Interspersed with Sketches, Anecdotes and Opinions of the Professional Merits of the Most Celebrated Actors and Actresses of Our Day (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1847), 2, 344.

14. "on every tongue"--Wemyss, Modern Standard Drama, 10, 3.

15. "going to close"--CC to Mrs. William Creswick, January 23, 1841, at MH-T.

16. far from well--ibid.

17. "and Burton himself"--New York Herald, January 23, 1841.

18. "heartily disappointed"--CC to Mrs. Creswick, February 7, 1841, at MCR.

19. "therefore refuses"--CC to Judd, February 3, 1841, at MCR.

20. "in show pieces"--quoted in Odell, Annals, 4, 468.

21. fetch her in style--Wemyss, Twenty-Six Years, 2, 352.

22. "for a time"--CC to Judd, n.d., at MCR.

23. "life your Father"--Babbit to CC, June 13, 1841, in CCP, 9.

24. the staring eyes--CC to Mrs. Creswick, July 9, 1841, at MH-H.

25. "skill and attention"--playbill for this performance, at TxU-T.

26. "in the whole cast"--Spirit, September 4, 1841, quoted in Odell, Annals, 4, 530.

27. "poutingly"--CC to Park Benjamin, October 13 [1841], at MH-T.

28. over the lawn--playbill for this performance, at TxU-T.

29. "greatly against her"--W. T. W. Ball in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 162.

30. "anything finer"--Walt Whitman, "Specimen Days," in Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose, ed. John Kouwenhoven (New York: Modern Library, 1950), p. 572.

31. "beginning to end"--quoted in Floyd Stovall, "Walt Whitman and the Dramatic Stage in New York," Studies in Philology, 50 (July, 1953): 531.

32. "loud-talking Amazonian"--New World, about October 16, 1841, quoted in Price, Life of Charlotte Cushman, p. 47.

33. "does the rheumatism"--New York Daily Herald, October 14, 1841, quoted in Lorenz, Charlotte Cushman, p. 61.

34. "of more importance"--CC to Benjamin, October 13 [1841], at MH-T.

35. "and his 'notice'"--New York Herald, October 16, 1841.

36. cowardly attack--Herald, October 18, 1841.

37. "witless ape"--Aurora, March 24, 1842, quoted in Rubin and Brown, Walt Whitman, p. 111.

38. "to obtain this"--CC to Noah M. Ludlow and Sol Smith, October 29, 1841, at MoSHi.

39. "flowing elocution"--untitled newspaper clipping in Joseph N. Ireland's scrapbook of New York stage actors and actresses at CtY.

40. "Nor even Somivel's"--Field's holograph, displayed on walls of the "Dickens Room" at the Parker House, Boston.

41. "Atlantic between them"--Life, Letters, and Speeches of Charles Dickens: With Biographical Sketches of the Principal Illustrations of Dickens's Work (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894), 2, 419.

42. "Miss Charlotte Cushman"--New York Sun (weekly edition), March 26, 1842.

43. "lights under bushels"--quoted in Rubin and Brown, Walt Whitman, p. 92.

44. "present glooms"--CC to Campbell P. White, at NNHi.

45. "filling up"--Weekly Herald, June 17, 1842.

46. his side of the house--Olive Logan, Before the Footlights and Behind the Scenes (Philadelphia: Parmelee, 1870), pp. 506-07.

47. "New Yorkers in six"--CC to W. H. Chippendale, August 2, 1842, in CCP, 2.

48. "and very nice"--CC to Chippendale, September 11, 1842, at MH-T.