Transcript of Letter from Charlotte Cushman to [Sidney Lanier], Aug 3, 1875
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[page 1] Dear friend.
Your kind & most welcome lettr [sic] of the 31" +++ just recd & has been such a relief to me. that I hasten to show send you just one word of greeting to show you that I am in the flesh—& thankful to find you again—aftr [sic] your much wandering. Before Peacock left his home, I wanted him to write to Mrs. Lanier— we were in such anxiety about you—to learn why we heard nothing—at last, just as he was leaving home he recd your lettr [sic] of the 10 July which he was kind enough to send to me that I might see and judge by your own hand how you were getting on—I am so glad that you will now be so near—at least for a time—& hope I may persuade you to run up to Lenox. after your work is over.—We hope (D.V.) to go there on the 9th +++. I have been so extremely suffering ever since I stopped work that I have hardly have able to walk beyond my own [illegible, crossed out] door [inserted]—a little drive in the +++. /being all that I have been able to accomplish of exercise. I had hoped very much that I might have been able to entertain you in my own house, here at Newport but I see I must give up that hope for the present. & trust to your being able to get to Lenox where we shall be, all August, & delighted to see you. Perhaps I shall be able to stay there longer—all depends upon the weathr [sic]: here, the damps of August are a little too softening and depressing for me. But you shall know of any change in our movements I am most sorry that you do not meet Mr. Calvert who admires and respects your poems enough to satisfy you—perhaps aftr [sic] I return here, in Sept, I may have the pleasure of bringing you togethr [sic]. as well as seeing you up among those lovely Berkshire Hills, where we will talk of many lovely things. Here I was interrupted by visitors whom I allow myself
[page 2] to receive from 12 1/2 to 1 1/2 in the day—and now must hurry this note off to you to assure you of my sympathy with you in the separation from your' lovely comrade and the 'hostages' in your hat burrying in Brooklyn for a month in all your dusty hot wandering, up & down the land—I heard through Peacock that you had been suffering your +++ hemorrhage—you say nothing of this—let me know how all is with you— I am turning over in my mind about England and its opinions—I have been cut off from all my English associations for so long—& they were never of the Press, that it is not clear to me at once. but it will become so—meanwhile believe how much I am interested in your work & your fame—Miss Stebbins was away from me for 3 weeks—but came to me in the 2 3 21(?)st to pass my 59th birthday with me on the 23d—we count the days to the mountain air & I am in dread of the suffering from the journey—for indeed I am very very suffering. more so than I ever dreamed of—& this is but the beginning, they tell me. ah, if the end could only be any night that I go to sleep/ anything to avoid the pain—& the sight of my pain to these I love—but unfortunately it is not—as we will—If you could only run on here on a Saturday noon. 1 o'clock if it were only to see me & a few choice spirits—& get back to your work on the Monday following if need be. However?, as you can. Miss Stebbins joins me in kindest words—commend me to you wife & believe me ever yours cordially
Charlotte Cushman
Envelope addressed. Sidney Lanier Esq. 195 Dean? St. Brooklyn. N.Y.
