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- Tags: social capital
Letter from Emma Crow Cushman to Edwin Booth
Tags: social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth, July 12, 1871
Tags: illness/death, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth, July 30, 1871
Tags: social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, Nov. 1, 1860
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, May 7, 186[?]
Tags: social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, 1859[?]
Tags: London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Note from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth
Tags: social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to William F. Bridges
Tags: social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mr. Harrington, July 15, 1840
Tags: press coverage, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Nov 20, 1872
Tags: social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Madame Vraidot, June 10, no year
Tags: financial concerns, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Jane Welsh Carlyle, July 12, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Jane Welsh Carlyle, Nov 16, 1861
Tags: love, Rome, same-sex attraction, social capital
"Rome – Foreign Correspondence of the Boston Post," Boston Post, February 23, 1867
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to William Wetmore Story, May 31, 1858
Tags: artists abroad, London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 26, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 12-13, 1862
Tags: artists abroad, love, respectability, Rome, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Dec 5-6, 1862
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to George Combe, Nov 23, 1845
Tags: respectability, social capital
Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mr. Danop, Oct 16, 1863
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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…