https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/89d6ac396b3a2ab21c9686557d0bcb6f.pdf bf26963b4a6f8401669d8f4bc1bb14e4 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 [837] Dearest & best of daughters & lovers. Your two letters of the 2d & 3d reached me together about half an hour since. I thank you from my heart for all which they convey to me of +++ of information to Every Thing!! nobody in all this world loves me as you do. & when time should have reconciled me to the changes — which circumstances have brought in the routine +++ one habit or custom of very less [?] for the last 8 years. I shall be all that your prayers would have me be. Bless you darling. your prayer's [sic] have helped me. I am better though circumstances are more & more trying to my patience & my temper. neither of wh [which] being the best at any time. have been tried to the very uttermost bounds. during [837 added vertically] I will bring you the corsets for baby. God bless him forever & ever to be a comfort to me I kiss you & love you. My own darling +++ & am ever fondly devotedly your auntie Ladie. Grand ma [sic] & uncle Charles send dear love to you — my poor darling with no parlour +++ & her guests. Darling I should much like the apartment I had when last in Paris. in the month of June. will you look in the +++ to see which they were — they +++ +++ better than this +++ God bless you — I want a light mauve. full dress & a bonnet [?] for winter  [837 reverse] this miserable summer. My own health has had [inserted]. I am free to confess, much to do with it. I have been weaker physically. & hence less able to cope with a heart trouble. My disappointment in people. in various directions —has mortified & wounded me to the quick. on the top of all this. coming my first disappointment in the fidelity of Aunt Em. I have been very nearly broken to bits. only the love of my darling daughter & friend to keep me above drowning! But prayers. do avail. my prayers have never been so earnest. my need has never been greater. & help will come. Time only as the healer! — On my arrival in town on Monday night. after a sweet week in Wales. I found lots of things to attend to. First & foremost. Horses & man. Then architects & surveyors for my house in Bollon [?] Row. Then a two hours sitting with your grandmother at the Dentists [sic]. I was on my feet in the city & at Kings [sic] Cross. from 1 o'clock until 6 1/2 when [838] I got back here [?] to dinner! (I am suffering so much with my hands & feet. That I hardly know how to contain myself — & often find myself with the tears running down my chest from pain!) — This morning — I have been writing notes & letters. & now have to send off this little unworthy note to you. my darling. to tell you that I have felt obliged to stop at Folkestone on my way over to Paris. to see poor dear Mrs James — (of upper terrace Lodge. Miss Coates [sic] friend) who met [?] with a most terrible accident on the steamer going across to Boulogne. about six weeks ago — Broke her leg. & has been laid up in Boulogne & now in Folkestone. & is so very anxious to see us. That we have consented to remain over. but we shall come by the next days [sic] tidal train. leaving Folkestone. if the weather is not awful. on Sunday 12:40. & arriving at Paris. 3:15. — I am very sorry for the detention — but so that I get to Paris in time to be with my darlings on the birth day of sweetest dearest Babs. & still be in time [838 reverse] to commence my shopping. which is not much. on the Monday morning! I am so glad to hear that your dresses are so lovely that you made them. or conceived them at yourself. this is always a satisfaction Thank you dear for seeing Mrs King — all right! About the horses. I have arranged. They will be in Paris on the Sunday night. & go on to Marseilles & I have arranged about the forwarding &c &c after much tribulation.— I hope to get every thing done. in Paris so as to leave on Saturday 14th. going to Macons [?] the first day. & to Turin the next. & Bologna. the next — & to Florence on the 17" or 18" — There we shall stay for a few days of rest. while I send Sallie on to Rome to make ready for us — Ned will have to do everything he can to get permission for the horses to be out of quarantine. They will leave Marseilles on the 12" & be in Civita Vecchia on Sunday Morning 15". He must move Heaven & Earth to have them landed. I suppose he ought to +++ on Cardinal Antonelli. immediately on his arrival officially. but tell him Brown will set him right in that matter & he must ask — [839] you must look in the Rue de Bac for cheap silks. & find me a place to buy a very beautiful. pale lavender. For a full dress. for the winter. From The name and email address of the person sending the email Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed The location must be London as the printing on the envelope and Cushman's itinerary mentioned in the September letters suggest. Location The location of the interview London, UK Geocode (Latitude) 51.509865 Geocode (Longitude) -0.118092 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 Charlotte Cushman to Emma Crow Cushman, Oct 4, 1865 Description An account of the resource Cushman has been feeling physically weaker and her disappointment in various people has added to her suffering. Especially Emma Stebbins' infidelity has affected her and only Emma Cushman's love has "[kept her] above drowning." Upon her arrival in London, Cushman had much to attend to. She will stop in Folkestone to see a friend but will arrive in Paris just in time for the baby's birthday on Sunday. Cushman has finalized the plan for sending the horses to Italy and informs Emma of the itinerary. <h3>Credit</h3> Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LoC, CCP 3: 837-838 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1865-10-04 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0894 Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Cushman, Edwin "Ned" Charles, 1838-1909 England--London Frustration Illness Relationships--Networks Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Travel Reports Mercer, Sallie France--Paris Italy--Rome Italy--Florence Sentimental Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 breach of privacy London respectability social capital travel/touring