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Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Oct 26, 1869
Charlotte Cushman is currently recovering from her surgery. She is allowed to travel again and Emma Crow Cushman is in charge of finding a place to stay on the journey.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Tags: London, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt Jackson, Oct 3 [or: 13], 1870
Charlotte Cushman, Emma Stebbins, and Emma Crow Cushman and her children are preparing for the passage to the US. Cushman informs Hunt about the plans for the next couple of months. She has already started to pay farewell visits to her friends.Col.…
Tags: travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, [1871-1875]
Charlotte Cushman addresses Helen Hunt in her quarrel with James Fields. Cushman advises Hunt to transact her own business and confront Fields about some gossip and to "beat him to death with compliments."Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, April 14, 1871
Emma Crow Cushman owns a house in Newport at this point in time. She is with Charlotte Cushman who is still consulting more doctors on her state of health.Emma Stebbins and Cushman remain in different locations, Stebbins is still spending her time in…
Tags: love
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Aug 16, 1874
Charlotte Cushman discusses further engagements and tells Hunt about her "friend Miss Stebbins" who accompanies her. Emma Stebbins's mother died.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Aug 18, 1871
Cushman encourages Helen Hunt's work as a poet and critic and talks about "American men" who do not "understand or appreciate beauty".She has decided to take on the role of Queen Katherine in New York in September, adding that it is an "easy part to…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Aug 25, 1871
Charlotte Cushman is about to start a new engagement in NY, she will perform Queen Katherine in Henry VIII. She shows some resentment against "society" and admits that the audience will pay to see her much more than the play itself, which makes her…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Aug 5,1875
Charlotte Cushman replies to Hunt's letter from July 29, 1875. She talks about meeting Mr. Jackson and is sure that she should like him "very much". Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Feb 23, 1874
Charlotte Cushman discusses her readings in New York and complains about the press, in particular, the critics.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Tags: press coverage, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Friday 13, 1871
For transcripts, please visit Colorado College.
Tags: love, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Jan 1, 1871
The letter is the answer to a former letter included in this collection, item 214. Charlotte Cushman admires Helen Hunt for her poems and calls her a "gentlewoman."Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, Jan 6, 1874
Charlotte Cushman discusses friendship and Helen Hunt's pen name Saxe Holm about which Cushman will stay quiet. The letter may be the response to item 213. Cushman also touches upon people who gossip/spread rumors. Eventually, she informs Hunt that…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, July 14, 1873
Charlotte Cushman writes from her Newport home. Her health has deteriorated again. Cushman calls Emma Stebbins "Emma S." She is looking after Emma Crow Cushman's kids.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Tags: illness/death
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, July 24, 1873
Charlotte Cushman apologizes for writing less often. She is in a better state of health but Emma Stebbins is not well. Cushman turned 55.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Tags: illness/death, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, July 24, 1875
Charlotte Cushman is in pain. This letter is answered by Helen Hunt on July 29, 1875. Cushman encourages Helen Hunt to settle down and marry: "about your marriage. It is better, so infinitely better, happier, wiser gooder[?], so I rejoice with all my…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, July 29, 1874
Charlotte Cushman is with Emma Stebbins and Emma Crow Cushman in Newport. She despises T. Tilton and tells Hunt that he and Grace Greenwood (together with S. Ames) are friends. Cushman describes them as "rotten."Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe,…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, June 11, 1871
Charlotte Cushman left Newport for the Villa Boscobel. Cushman refers to Emma Stebbins as 'Miss Stebbins' who Cushman did not see for seven weeks as she emphasizes.Cushman admits that she is thinking of Helen Hunt: "I think of you often & much…
Tags: financial concerns, love, women's jobs
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, June 28, 1871
Currently, Charlotte Cushman is not in pain. Mrs Garland, Emma Stebbins's sister, is very fond of Helen Hunt because of the book of poems she sent.Cushman announces a visit of Stebbins and herself in Bethlehem. Among others, Booth urges Cushman to…
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, March 12, 1871
Charlotte Cushman is facing another surgery.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Tags: illness/death
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Helen Hunt, March 21, 1871
Charlotte Cushman faces surgery again and is afraid she may die. Cushman asks Helen Hunt to care for Emma Cushman if she dies.Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, Colorado College.
Tags: illness/death, love, social capital
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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…