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Vandenhoff's Leaves from an Actor's Note-Book; With Reminiscences and Chit-Chat of the Green-Room and the Stage, in England and America (1860)

Vandenhoff's Leaves from an Actor's Note-Book; With Reminiscences and Chit-Chat of the Green-Room and the Stage, in England and America (1860).pdf
Same text but different page no. published as Dramatic Reminiscences; or, Actors and Actresses in England and America (1860, London, T. W. Cooper). Credit Hathi Trust

Mrs. Walker's Reminiscences of the Life of the World-Renowned Charlotte Cushman (1876)

Walker_Reminiscences of Renowned Cushman (1876).pdf
The biography traces Cushman's successful career and mentions many business partners and friends. However, it excludes every references to Cushman's same-sex relationships. It is published after Charlotte Cushman's death.The Cushman-Macready-…

Mowatt's Autobiography of an Actress; or, Eight Years on the Stage (1854)

Mowatt_Autobiography of an actress - Omeka Excerpts.pdf
Mowatt is an actress that performs with/meets Susan and Charlotte Cushman as well as Macready. She serves as an example of annother actress carefully analyzing press coverage. Credit Hathi Trust

Macready's Diary – Cushman mentions (edited by Toynbee, 1912)

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The diary entries depict an interesting dynamic between Macready's and Cushman's relationship. There is no diary entry from the beginning of January, 1844, when Cushman published her poem about Macready in the Anglo American Journal. Usually,…

Letter from Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, March 18, 1865

In a patronizing manner, Robert Browning speaks of the letter from March 3, 1865, tat he received from Matilda Hays: "Miss Hays wrote to me for my signature to her petition for a literary pension: I thought it about the coolest proposal I remember,…

Letter from Matilda Hays to Robert Browning, March 3, 1865

Matilda Hays writes to Robert Browning to convince him of her writing skills and career by including her "memorial." She mentions Charlotte Cushman in the context of her short stage career after which she traveled as a "companion" with Charlotte.Hays…

Letter from Kate Field to Cordelia Riddle Sanford, March 1860 (excerpt)

Kate Field tells her aunt about a lively evening she spent in the compancy of Harriet Hosmer and Emma Crow. She also mentions that Charlotte Cushman is en route to England and that Emma Stebbins is making progress on her Lotus Eater (the sculpture is…

Letter from Julia Howe to Anne Brewster, Jan 29, 1871

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[2]: Dear Madam, I hope that what friends and the public know of you will justify being appealing to you, without +++ in behalf of a project which I have warmly at heart, and in which I write to +++ thought put women in behalf of other their +++ her…

Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, June 19, 1878

1878_Letter from Emma Stebbins Hyde Park New York to Anne Whitney_about the reception of the memoir.pdf
Emma Stebbins responds to Anne Whitney's reaction to reading Charlotte Cushman: Letters and Memories of Her Life. Credit Wellesley College Archives, Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4): Correspondence. 2010.

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to James Thomas Fields, Dec 31, 1864

Letter from CC to JT, December 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,…