https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/de9cc643351e1f22e81c5212bb731a4e.pdf 29450d5ed6b552fa8554f933225cee44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cushmania Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Gossip--Published Gossip--Private Relationships--Networks Italy--Rome Description An account of the resource A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a>) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century. We invite you to either look for specific items via the tag cloud at the bottom of the page or the search function at the top, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>." <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="237.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="324.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Letter A resource containing textual messages sent from one person to another or one person to many people. Text Any textual data included in the document [page 1] Dear friends Your sweet & welcome letter of the 13". reached our hands only yesterday morning. we were prevented from leaving Rome on the 13" as we expected by the illness of our dear artist. who was confined to the bed for a week with abscess in her jaw. she was prevented from eating drinking or sleeping for a week & I can assure you it pulled her down very much. we thus missed the boat of the 13" purposing to take the direct boat of Wednesday 16"--to reach Paris on the 18" at the latest. " Man proposes & " women are disappointed. on Tuesday 15" came a telegram saying there would be no direct boat on +++ of the Napoletan Government [page 2] sending it with troops to Sicily. Thus we had to take the boat which stops at +++ +++ & Marseilles. This boat was crammed. Great as we fancied ourselves in Rome--we found one +++ on that boat. having achieved the +++ of lying on a mattrass [sic] on the floor for thee nights. not taking off our clothes from Wednesday morning to Sunday night. on Monday morning more dead than alive, we found a packet of letters waiting for us. among them yours: which gave us infinite pleasure. first that there should be a chance of our catching you in London & second that you want us to be with you-- but--I hear that the Sargoods [?] are expecting us to stay with them. something was said about it long ago. but I did not know I was expected--if I am--we must go them. this I shall learn in the course of a few days. & then if not too late I will write [page 3] & ask your help in the way of lodgings Meanwhile I may as well tell you what we should want in case we should have to telegraph you that we want rooms a sitting room--one double bedded room & two single bedded rooms. If there can be but one single room. I must manage to let my nephew sleep elsewhere--but him I should prefer to have you him [inserted] with me. Will you learn if such accommodation can be had on Tuesday night. at your house in case I want it. of which I will give you timely information. Meanwhile my young chicks. The crows. bear you this note. They will like to see Mr Fields to ask him something about an apartment. in your house or some where near where you are. They wish to go to the Isle of Wight to return on Saturday nights. Will Mr Fields help their movements for my sake—Goodbye for the present! Emma Crow will tell you how we are. but she cannot tell you how much we wish to see you or [page 4] how anxiously we look forward to the pleasure. We will see "the picture", of which I have heard so much. & many other delights. in +++ short sojourn which loom pleasantly. our Even my our [inserted] kind love to "Jamie" whose pleasant +++ we took off one hat to at Madam +++ this morning. +++ indeed ended somebody will go to the +++ - & be very happy to be taken up again by such truly good clever people. I shall be so glad to show him "our [?] Emma"--God bless you both. believe me Ever your attached Charlotte Cushman   From The name and email address of the person sending the email Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 Location The location of the interview Hotel de la Grand Bretagne, Paris, France Geocode (Latitude) 48.8566969 Geocode (Longitude) 2.3514616 Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed somehow it is striking that she is using the “we”-pronoun throughout this letter; the double bedded room for Stebbins and CC? (and the single bed rooms for Sallie and Ned?) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Charlotte Cushman to the Fields family, May 23, 1860 Description An account of the resource <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Cushman</a> writes to the Fields of travel arrangements and complications which were experienced along the road and of a potential meeting in London. She informs them about the rooms she would like for her travel companions and herself, asking <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/59" title="James T. Fields">James</a> to help find an apartment for the Crow family in the Field's house, or at least nearby, all the while sending much love their way. <h3>Credit</h3> <a href="https://www.huntington.org/">Huntington Library</a>, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Huntington, JTFP, Box 12, FI 681 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-05-23 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0175 Subject The topic of the resource Actors and Actresses--US American Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 England--London Friendship Italy--Rome Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex Relationships--Networks Social Events--Travels London public intimacy Rome social capital travel/touring