Notes, Chapter 9

Abbreviations

1. "generous sentiments"--CC holograph in CCP, 1, 15.

2. "Walnut St. wardrobe"--CCP, 9, 2793-94.

3. the most good--Vandenhoff, An Actor's Note-Book, p. 195.

4. "the Far West"--Howitt, "The Miss Cushmans," p. 48.

5. "C. S. Cushman"--CC to Chippendale, Philadelphia, October 29, 1842, at MH-T.

6. laws were laws--Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: Macready and Forrest and Their Contemporaries, ed. Brander Matthews and Laurence Hutton (Boston: Page, 1900), p. 150.

7. "respectability"--Herald, November 14, 1842, quoted in Lorenz, Charlotte Cushman, p. 18.

8. Enchanted Isle--Brewster, "Miss Cushman," p. 171.

9. were irritating--Durang, History of the Philadelphia Stage, 5, 211.

10. of the calls--Walter M. Leman, Memories of an Old Actor (San Francisco: Roman, 1886), p. 179.

11. "to overestimate"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 34.

12. to another seat--Diary of Joseph Sill, Sunday, April 16, 1843, printed in Philadelphia Public Ledger, February 27, 1927, at PPHi.

13. "button-hole society"--Leman, Memories of an Old Actor, p. 180.

14. "I am beautiful"--CC to Thomas Sully, n.d., at MH-T.

15. she owed him?--Edward Biddle and Mantle Fielding, The Life and Works of Thomas Sully: 1783-1872 (Philadelphia: Biddle and Fielding, 1921), p. 131.

16. a special treasure--original at DFo.

17. "epicene"--Vandenhoff, An Actor's Note-Book, p. 218.

18. her "assistant"--Wemyss, Twenty-Six Years, 2, 337.

19. wrongly emphasized--Leman, Memories of an Old Actor, p. 170.

20. off the stage--Drew, Autobiographical Sketch, p. 98.

21. and other actors--Matthews and Hutton, Macready and Forrest, p. 9.

22. "the eye alone"--quoted in Downer, The Eminent Tragedian, p. 33.

23. "mischief with me"--Brewster, "Miss Cushman," p. 172.

24. "my little dear"--contemporary untitled newspaper clipping at MH-T.

25. saw them together--ibid.

26. "make me a gown"--quoted in Spirit, February 26, 1876.

27. "on the stage"--quoted in William Toynbee, The Diaries of William Charles Macready: 1833-1851 (New York: Chapman and Hall, 1912), 2, 233.

28. "and I will"--quoted in Brewster, "Miss Cushman," p. 173.

29. "to give it"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 230.

30. "Charlotte Cushman"--CC to [Macready] My Dear Sir, n.d., at NNC.

31. "the common room"--quoted in Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 234-35.

32. "powerful and clever"--quoted in ibid., p. 230.

33. "was only kind"--quoted in ibid., p. 239.

34. "forget-me-not!"--Knickerbocker (October, 1843): 364.

35. with Macready--Stebbins, p. 33.

36. "to stand up!"--Drew, Autobiographical Sketch, p. 94.

37. "by his imagination"--Trewin, Mr. Macready, p. 80.

38. indescribable "splendor"--CC quoted in George T. Ferris, "Players of Yesterday," The Theatre, 10 (September, 1909): 82.

39. fugitive impression--Lawrence Barrett, Charlotte Cushman: A Lecture, Publications of Dunlap Society, No. 9 (New York, 1889), p. 17.

40. audience dissolved--Murdoch, The Stage, pp. 104-06.

41. "where I please!"--Mrs. Bancroft, Gleanings from 'On and Off the Stage' (London: George Routledge, 1892), p. 244.

42. "something into it"--Edward Fitzgerald, The Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble (New York: Macmillan, 1895), p. 55.

43. "up into prose"--quoted in Richard Findlater, Six Great Actors: David Garrick et al. (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957), p. 127.

44. to her acting--Dutton Cook, Hours with the Players (London: Chatto and Windus, 1881), 2, 197.

45. "colloquial whisper"--quoted in Alan S. Downer, "Players and Painted Stage: Nineteenth Century Acting," PMLA, 61 (June, 1946): 544.

46. "anticipate my thought"--quoted in Findlater, Six Great Actors, p. 125.

47. "of her calling?"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 241.

48. "sent to me, etc."--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, pp. 26-27.

49. cheered "enthusiastically"--Spirit, December 9, 1843, p. 492.

50. "very double person"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 242.

51. "for many years"--Spirit, December 16, 1843, p. 504.

52. "him play second"--quoted in Stebbins, p. 32.

53. "fixed Miss Cushman"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 243.

54. "or Da Vinci"--CC to [Macready] My Dear Sir, [December, 1843], at NNC.

55. "of knowing you"--Macready to CC, December 24, 1843, in CCP, 12, 3536.

56. "thee, Dr. Fell!"--Toynbee, Diaries of Macready, 2, 244.