Letter from Helen Hunt to Charlotte Cushman, Oct 11, 1874

Letter from Helen Hunt to Charlotte Cushman, Oct 11, 1874

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

United States--Boston

United States--New York City

Social Events--Travels

Jackson, Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt tells Cushman that she will not be able to meet her on the next day as planned, due to a visiting friend. Helen is trying to figure out where they could meet next, hoping for New York, where Charlotte Cushman is currently reading.

Credit

Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

For transcripts, please also see Colorado College.

Hunt, Helen Jackson, 1830-1885

LoC, CCP 11:3404-3405

1874-10-11

Reference

[3404] Cara Regina,

I am so disappointed – I can’t come to Boston tomorrow, as I had planned. A friend is coming from Philadelphia, to spend a week with me, and has gone on, putting it off from day to day until now he writes that he will be here on Tuesday!—

Now where will you be, through November? I shall come down from these bleak and stormy heights early in that month; and must

[3405] see you somewhere. I shall be in Boston, New York, perhaps in Newport; - and shall decide then what to do for the winter. I am disquieted with this climate. Three weeks tomorrow have I been in it, and only ten days have I seen without storms. And even the days called fine, when the sun shines are so cloudy, that they seem dark to me, after the Colorado blaze of sunlight.

I send this to care of my Trustee in Boston, begging him to ascertain your address there, and I hope you will get

[reverse 3404] it on Tuesday. Ah. but I am grieved not to hear that dear grand voice tomorrow night. I do so hope you are still to read in N. York, when I can be there. Goodnight -
Your faithful Helen H.

Hunt, Helen Jackson, 1830-1885

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

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