Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Charlotte Cushman [1846]
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Title
Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Charlotte Cushman [1846]
Subject
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889
Arts--Literature
Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex
Description
Jewsbury thanks Cushman for the documents she sent to her and talks about a poem she does not really care about.
Credit
Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Creator
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880
Source
LoC, CCP 11: 3458-3460
Date
1846-00-00
Type
Reference
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Text
"This time last year I have written passionate things myself to another - & to see this poem & to read E. C’s letters seems like meeting my own ghost - & I am frightened at it! I wish I had more practical skepticism about people & more absolute faith in the theory of affections & so forth. I love passionately – shut my eyes willfully
[...]
I wish I did not care about you as I do for I know full well I shall be made miserable for it some day"
[...]
I wish I did not care about you as I do for I know full well I shall be made miserable for it some day"
From
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880
To
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Location
Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool, UK
Geocode (Latitude)
53.407154
Geocode (Longitude)
-2.991665
Annotations
"1846" added by archivist
Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) Specification
1846-XX-XX
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Citation
Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880, “Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Charlotte Cushman [1846],” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 25, 2024, https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/341.