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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>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;THEATRE-ROYAL, BRISTOL&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;[…]&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;LAST WEEK OF THE SEASON!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;ENGAGEMENT OF THE CELEBRATED MISS CUSHMAN.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Most positively for Three Nights only!&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;________&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;On WEDNESDAY, February 28th,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;MISS CUSHMAN will PERFORM, in the Play of GUY MANNERING,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Her celebrated Character of MEG MERRILIES.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;On THURSDAY, March 1st,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Will be presented Shakspere's Play of&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;ROMEO AND JULIET.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Romeo ..&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ..&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; .. Miss CUSHMAN.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;________&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;On FRIDAY, March 2nd,&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS CUSHMAN.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And positively her last Appearance, will be Presented&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;SIMPSON AND CO.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Mrs. Simpson ..&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ..&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; .. Miss CUSHMAN.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Doors open at Half-past Six; Performance to commence at&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Seven o'clock precisely.—Children in Arms not admitted.&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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              <text>"Amusements", &lt;em&gt;Bristol Mercury and Western Counties Advertiser&lt;/em&gt;, Feb 24, 1855</text>
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              <text>This is a list of announcements about Charlotte Cushman performing at the Theatre-Royal in Bristol for three nights, each a different role.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/newspapers#"&gt;The British Library Newspapers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gale.com/intl/primary-sources"&gt;Gale Digital Collections&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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