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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;
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&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>Library of Congress</text>
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                <text>New York Public Library</text>
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                <text>Philadelphia Historical Society</text>
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                <text>1816-00-00/1920-00</text>
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            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
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            <text>&lt;p&gt;[page 1] Dear friend. &lt;br /&gt;Too late in the day, but with all the love in my heart. I commend myself to your kind indulgence. for not sooner replying to your kind and welcome letter of the 4". which reached me in due time. Thoroughly like your generous &amp;amp; hospitable selves it is, &amp;amp; I fully &amp;amp; entirely appreciate all your goodness.- I will come &amp;amp; stay with you when I come to Baltimore. if you will have me. if only to show you that I can accept hospitalities with all the frankness in which they are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 2] offered. It is more blessed to give than to receive. &amp;amp; you will find compensation [?] in your own hearts. if not in my conduct. I am situated a little awkwardly I fear. I have invited my friend Miss Stebbins. (sister of Henry S. Stebbins of N. Y.) to go to Phil&lt;sup&gt;a&lt;/sup&gt; [Philadelphia] &amp;amp; Baltimore with me. &amp;amp; should scarcely feel myself justified in bringing a stranger to you. But we shall see? Miss Hays has not come to America this time. she [i]s busy editing a journal in London in company with a friend. so Emily must "keep her memory green"! &amp;amp; live on that for the present. It is better than "+++ in coffee". My engagement here. is very&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 3] wonderful indeed considering the &lt;u&gt;times.&lt;/u&gt; wonderful for any times. but particularly for these which "do try +++ souls." This makes my stay here a little uncertain. I may stay longer or shorter at all events. you shall have timely warning of my coming southwards &amp;amp; not be unexpectedly &lt;u&gt;pounced&lt;/u&gt; upon! ever my kind love to Maria. I shall be very proud of her as a "servant" but hope she wont [sic] make herself too "Cavalier". as I am sensitive &lt;u&gt;though old&lt;/u&gt;! Kiss all the +++ for me. I shall be so glad to see them all again. [rest of the page missing]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 2 reverse] &lt;u&gt;know how&lt;/u&gt;. Sallie sends her kind love to the Children &amp;amp; Mrs Chase [?] if they will accept it &amp;amp; look forward with great pleasure to seeing you all again. I write in great haste. for I am very very busy. but ever. with best love to yourselves &amp;amp; yours &lt;br /&gt;Your attached friend &lt;br /&gt;Charlotte Cushman&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>This specific collection cannot be found on the website currently.&lt;br /&gt;Who is the addressee? What could the year be?</text>
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            <text>Chase, Algernon, 1808-1878</text>
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              <text>Cushman writes to Chase family in Baltimore about their invitation. She alerts them to the fact that Emma Stebbins will accompany her – even though they might have expected to see her still in the company of Matilda Hays (who is, however, as Cushman explains in London, busy editing a journal).&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;a href="https://archives.nypl.org/"&gt;New York Public Library&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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              <text>NYPL, Players Club, Misc. Papers, Coll. 9069</text>
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