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Cobbe's Italics: Brief Notes on Politics, People and Places in Italy (1864)
Among others, the text mentions Hosmer and Cushman. Cobbe describes the Cushman household as a "women club."
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Hathi Trust
Harriet Hosmer's "The Doleful Ditty of the Roman Caffe Greco"
Hosmer writes a "witty" poem, as Cornelia Carr describes it in her edition of Hosmer's letters, about the patriarchal culture of male sculptors in Rome. The poem is published in the New York Evening Post in the summer of 1864.
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Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 22, 1864
Charlotte calls herself a "Mum" and Emma her "daughter" in this letter. She is criticizing Longfellow and critiquing the January issue of the Atlantic. Among other issues, Cushman is discussing "war" and "peace" democrats, the administration, Harriet…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 30, 1863 [1864?]
This letter seems to be a follow up of Jan 22, 1864, and hence have the wrong date. Instead of "1863," the letter is probably from 1864.Charlotte Cushman tells Emma Crow Cushman that she never shows her letters to anyone except for reading single…
"Personal," Lowell Daily Citizen and News, March 26 1864
A report stating that Greenwood visited the Potomac army and is due to give four lectures to "large audiences".
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
"Our Sanitary Fair in Rome," The Methodist, Apr 2, 1864
The preparations of the Sanitary Commission are highlighted. The article praises American artists in Rome, among who Cushman and Stebbins can be found, that contribute to raising money in a patriotic manner. The article names Emma Stebbins and…
"Military Appointment Politics," Trenton State Gazette, Apr 18, 1864
The president is announced to attend one of Greenwood's lecture.
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
Record of the Metropolitan Fair in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission Held at New York in April 1864
The excerpt praises Cushman's performance of "Macbeth" together with Edwin Booth retrospectively""It was perhaps the most memorable of all the public performances given to the Sanitary Commission."The record ispublished in 1867, three years after the…
Greenwood Lecture, National Anti-Slavery Standard, May 7, 1864
This small paragraph defends Greenwood as a lecturer who, apparently, has been criticized for talking about politics.
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Readex: America's Historical Newspapers
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, May 29, 1864
Brewster received an unaffected letter by Cushman and mentions the Hawthornes as neighbors.
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The Library Company of Philadelphia
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, July 8, 1864
Anne Brewster describes the fiancé of her cousin Frank as a "well-posé person" whose manners she feels drawn to. She adds: "Had I been alone with her I should have kissed her [inserted] but I would not take a liberty with her before any one for fear…
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, July 26, 1864
Brewster writes about meeting a bishop, other encounters, and her novel St. Martin's Summer. She does not plan on working in the summer and fall as she is "living enjoying existence." Brewster mentions the Boston Athenaeum and the Atlantic Monthly,…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Thomas Fields, Aug 27, 1864
Cushman informs Fields that Emma Cushman is doing well in her pregnancy, while Emma Stebbins is not in high spirits due to money issues related to her Mann statue. The Sewards are mentioned.
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Huntington Library, James Thomas Fields Papers and…
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, Dec 4, 1864
Anne Brewster comments on her social duties: "I love a little society just a little, but if that society demand too much of me I must give it up for I can only receive & take so much."Brewster mentions her correspondence with Charlotte Cushman.…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to James Thomas Fields, Dec 31, 1864
Charlotte Cushman describes Anne Brewster as "an old dear friend of younger days." Stebbins cannot pay the exchange for the casting and transport of her statue. Cushman asks James to interfere on Stebbins' behalf and talk to Dr. Howe. Additionally,…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Annie Fields, [1865]
Charlotte Cushman mentions the Sanitary Commission and asks the Fields for help in terms of advertising a performance of her as she aims at collecting money for the charity. In particular, she asks Annie to send James to Ticknor Jr., as Chushman…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Jan 26, 1865
Charlotte Cushman writes to Emma Crow Cushman about her life in Rome, including recent visits by several US Americans (among them, Bishop Whipple of Minnesota and the Astor-family of New York) and about the renovations she intents to start, once…
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Charlotte Cushman
Charlotte Cushman becomes widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as the first successful US-American actress. Earlier, she was a singer under the tutelage of James G. Maeder, married to actress Clara Fisher, in Boston. Charlotte has been the sole financial support of her mother since her father…