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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;
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                <text>1816-00-00/1920-00</text>
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            <text>[...] that Miss C: won’t give up the plan. It would be of unspeakable use to us both (if the Play is to come to anything) that we should have a quiet study of it together &amp;amp; I am in better spirits about it, now, than I was. I have wrought up the fourth act. till I only fear ther may be too +++ stage effect. greatly to the advantage of +++ Eleanor &amp;amp; should like to go over it line by line, word by word with her in the morning when the garish world is shopping! I +++ ++++&amp;nbsp; desperate quantity to do +++ it but like all things, which &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;have a reality&lt;/span&gt; to their writer – the details too as they are, have fallen tidily into their places. &amp;amp; I think the matter will have a sort of &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;workmanlike &lt;/span&gt;completness[?] such as I should wish it. With but one success I am sure of myself in that +++ old, battered, shabby &amp;amp; town tattered as I am! – Then, I think, that Miss C &amp;amp; +++&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2924] &amp;amp; the neighbours +++ +++ +++ (mercy upon me! What will they say, for being put in the place of the last +++!)&amp;nbsp; I would do wonderful things in the chapter of public entertainment: +++ +++ +++ &amp;amp; I hope, my dearest madam +++ if they have not gone +++ +++&amp;nbsp; long ago – so that if the mornings were improvingly +++ the afternoons might be charmingly dissipated! I should like, however, to hear &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;certainly&lt;/span&gt;: because I hardly know that I have +++ to undergo the +++ of 48 +++ +++ &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;de suite&lt;/span&gt;: if I did not think I should +++ at the far end say 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; or 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of Oct as you please. I have managed three pairs[?] – Amsterdam, +++ or Frankfort – to find +++. But there's nothing but pickles &amp;amp; piper in the +++ peculiar &amp;amp; some of us are sharp[?] enough with the former &amp;amp; none that I know of +++.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Henry F. Chorley</text>
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            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Henry F. Chorley asks Cushman to prepare with him a play they are working on together, &lt;em&gt;Duchess Eleanor&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;(Fragment of a letter?)&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;Credit&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.loc.gov/"&gt;Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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