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                <text>&lt;p&gt;A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/"&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;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, &lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;browse all items&lt;/a&gt; in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Exhibits&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h6 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"&gt;&lt;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" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/"&gt;Palladio&lt;/a&gt; visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)&lt;/h6&gt;&#13;
&lt;h6 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"&gt;&lt;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" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/"&gt;Palladio&lt;/a&gt; visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items&lt;br /&gt;that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)&lt;/h6&gt;&#13;
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                <text>Philadelphia Historical Society</text>
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                <text>1816-00-00/1920-00</text>
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            <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[page 1] Tuesday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Oh what a lovely day. &amp;amp; how sadly we leave you. we have been made so happy through your kindness that we hate to go. &amp;amp; only think &lt;u&gt;now&lt;/u&gt; of the 15" - our hearts we have in your hands. at least I speak for two of us! Your own flirtations with Miss Stebbins must find their own response &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;our [?] feelings have been "kind o' &lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;arrow'd Mess" [?]. Dear J.F T. Enclosed please find &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;notes to Mr Bube &amp;amp; Gites [?]--if they are are [sic] not what you like. will you send them to me at Lenox. any &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[page 2] time before Monday morning next when we leave for New York. (No 20. West 16" S&lt;sup&gt;t&lt;/sup&gt;). &amp;amp; tell me what I can write better &amp;amp; I will do it. Let me have a line from one of you. if you see anything of Mr Bube. &amp;amp; if you cannot do any thing with him--do you know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Mr Gardner [?] Brewer [?] who would do Equally well. My great object is to get Ned at something in Boston Miss Crow much choosen [sic] Boston &amp;amp; so do I. Therefore if you can help me in the matter. will you. &amp;amp; if with them &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;nothing +++ can be done, cant [sic] you &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[page 3] make him, a bookseller of "your School". &amp;amp; so give me even a greater happiness Than the other would. for thus he would be being educated &lt;u&gt;intellectually,&lt;/u&gt; &amp;amp; Making Emma Crow a more satisfying companion. Will you think of this &amp;amp; let me know your mind &lt;br /&gt;God bless you from all to all &lt;br /&gt;Ever your aff [affectionate]&lt;br /&gt;Charlotte Cushman &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
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            <text>Fields, Annie, 1834-1915</text>
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            <text>to CC education and reputation was very important, cf. newspaper clippings in which she crossed out paragraphs about herself not having received training for the stage&lt;br /&gt;link to newspaper articles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;date probably between Sept 11 and Sept 19 --&amp;gt; CC arrived at Tremont House on Sept 11 and left for Lenox on Sept 19 according to letter 215 (also ties in with the date and location of letters 178 &amp;amp; 178)</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Cushman asks James Fields to make Ned "a bookseller of '[his] school'" so that he will be better educated and make Emma Crow "a more satisfying companion." &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;a href="https://www.huntington.org/"&gt;Huntington Library&lt;/a&gt;, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda</text>
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