https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/a1803f03b26a45f9cea2b0d4726883fc.pdf c851c30963c0e328bd2e3cd34048994a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cushmania Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Gossip--Published Gossip--Private Relationships--Networks Italy--Rome Description An account of the resource A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a>) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century. 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, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>." <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><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" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><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" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Letter A resource containing textual messages sent from one person to another or one person to many people. Text Any textual data included in the document [2637] My dearest C.C. I am anxious not having heard from one of you since you left. How is it with you? I almost hope this letter will be forwarded after you and that you are at this very moment +++ health as I +++ on the +++ far away from this burning old Europe. How I wish dear C.C. l could be your doctor, would[?] I just dose you with portwine, milk, glycerine taken internally raw eggs succulent meats and above all with your sedative in the fashion of a kiss or two every time you were going[?] to [2637 reverse] excile[?, sic] yourself. It is all very fine to torture you externally What you want is internal replenishment of blood. I will maintain in the teeth[?] of all the Drs in the world that never was sweeter blood than yours never certainly a sweeter breath and all those things are so much in your favour. all the people who have had maladies of the nature you fear have had sweet sound +++, and +++ [inserted] less than all such pure +++ health as yours & I have known several. . Journeys[?] of condition[?] blood +++ by too much exhausting fatigue bodily or mentally [2638] or heartily [?]. May cause something what looks like it, and which where there is a fear from inherited misfortune of such a disease may confirm the suspicion that it is but it is not the thing. a friend of mine whose maternal [inserted] grand mother died of cancer, whose father was very scrupulous, had a tumour which +++ her to death and she had it cut out. She was ill for a long time but finally got quite well and has had several children since. And her inherited blood was full of disease on the paternal side and or[?] the maternal was the fact. It is all very +++ & uncertain but good blood does not +++ itself and yours is sweet blood only you have tried to diminish it too [2638 reverse] much. Please eat and drink & Do not be tortured in any way. I wish I could have managed to get to England this year so as to have had a peep at you as I had when you were so ill at Boston. Sometimes wish I could give you some of my steel. partly in my veins partly in my head. I saw Miss +++ for a day or two. and she was coming[?] again but the plans have changed finally. The Bronsons[?] +++ leading her but Mrs B's illness prevented it[?] Here is an article of mine on in all its +++ in July I forgot the date which I should +++ you to send, it is called A +++ a +++ and I do hope that my sketch of you & +++ written last autumn will meet your eye somewhere in America but I +++ it to +++ a to post[?] and she posted[?] it without registering +++ I fear it is lost!!!! – If not you must [?] see what +++ compliments I pay you I say +++ was is [inserted] a good wife & good mother but C.C. +++ [added on 2637 at the top] especially the friend of women the one woman whose hand has always reachout & support the feebler[?] poorer[?] ones of her own sex How is Emma S. & Emma C. - of course you have been to the +++, always your affecate [affectionate] Isa Loves to Emmas both. they and to Sally [last four words inserted] Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed July 11 or July 1? Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) Specification Standardized Data for Dates according to http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/ 1869?-07-01? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Isa Blagden to Charlotte Cushman, July [1], 1869 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Blagden, Isabella "Isa", 1816?-1873 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1869-07-01 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0884 Subject The topic of the resource Arts--Portraits Blagden, Isabella "Isa", 1816?-1873 Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Frustration Illness Journalists/Writers England Description An account of the resource Isa Blagden regrets that Charlotte Cushman has been in bad health recently. She suggests that Cushman should have a blood transfusion to attempt to improve her condition and points out that Cushman's cancer may be inherited. Blagden has also enclosed an article she wrote and hopes that Cushman likes the sketch Blagden included of her. <h3>Credit</h3> <a href="https://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a>, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.  Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LoC, CCP 9: 2637-2638 illness/death press coverage