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Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, Oct 13, [1869]

Emma Stebbins writes to Anne Whitney from Edinburgh to inform her about Charlotte Cushman's state of health. Stebbins hopes to be able to return to Rome soon. Credit Wellesley College Archives

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Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, March 24, 1874

Emma Stebbins writes to Anne Whitney and addresses Charlotte Cushman's precarious state of health. Credit Wellesley College Archives, Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4)

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Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, June 19, 1878

Emma Stebbins responds to Anne Whitney's reaction to reading Charlotte Cushman: Letters and Memories of Her Life. Credit Wellesley College Archives, Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4): Correspondence. 2010.

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Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, July 6, 1878

Emma Stebbins thanks Anne Whitney for her kind words about the Cushman-memoir and mentions the letters of praise she has received about the book. Stebbins also asks for information about Dr. Mitchell, famous for his rest cure, and the charges…

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Letter from Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, Jan 8, 1879

Emma Stebbins writes about grieving and some rumors in the papers, among which Hosmer confronts some libel. Credit Wellesley College Archives, Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4)

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Letter from Emma Crow to Edwin Booth, March 6, 1863

Emma Crow sends her condolescences to Edwin Booth and his small daughter after the death of Mary Devlin Booth.

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Letter from Emma Crow Cushman to Edwin Booth

Emma Crow asks Booth whether he could help a niece of a friend who is looking to pursue a stage career.

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Letter from Elizabeth Browning to Robert Browning, [Oct 21, 1852]

Elizabeth Browning tells Robert of her Paris experience, recounting an encounter with Louis Napoleon together with Cushman. Elizabeth Browning also mentions that Cushman "is on her way to Rome with her friend Miss Hayes who translated George Sand,—so…

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Letter from Elizabeth Browning to her Sister Arabella Moulton-Barrett, Jan 15-17 1853

Browning writes about Rome: "Rome is very full, I hear– Fanny Kemble is to be there this month, & Miss Cushman is there, & a world of Americans" Credit The Brownings Correspondence

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Letter from Elizabeth Browning to Henrietta Cook, Dec 30, 1853

The letter implies that Hays and Hosmer live together.

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russel Mitford, May 20, [1853]

After meeting Greenwood, Elizabeth Browning admits that she likes the writer despite the defamatory rumors. Credit The Brownings Correspondence

Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jessie Meriton White, [April 28[?], 1856]

Browning advises Jessie Meriton to ask Cushman for help in terms of a translation of George Sand who has a "reputation [...] of being tenacious" about her translations. Browning admits that she cannot interfere on Meriton's behalf since she does not…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, March 3, [1853]

Browning characterizes Grace Greenwood as a "strong-minded" and a woman who cannot be trusted with confidential information since she would capitalize on it: "What makes me talk so illnaturedly is the information I have since received, that she has…

Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, June 1, [1853]

Elizabeth Browning emphasizes again that Grace Greenwood is a person of "general intelligence & sensibility," countering the rumors spread about the writer.Blagden lives with Charlotte Cushman in Via Gregoriana, Rome, for the time being.…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, June 1, [1853]

Elizabeth Browning asks Isa Blagden whether Cushman is coming and speaks kindly of Grace Greenwood: "Grace is really a Grace, & not a Corinna, not assuming, not presumptuous." Credit The Brownings Correspondence

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, Jan 5-9, 1860

Elizabeth Browning tells Isa Blagden that she "will offend Miss Cushman" if she does not visit the actress in Rome. Credit Armstrong Browning Library - The Browning Letters

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, [Oct 20, 1856]

Elizabeth Browning informs Blagden that Robert and she are going to travel to Florence. She also mentions Cushman and Matilda Hays who are traveling to Algiers. Credit The Brownings Correspondence

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her sister Arabel, Oct 22, 1852

Browning describes Cushman and Hays's relationship as a "female marriage." Credit New York Public Librarysee also: The Brownings Correspondence by Wedgestone Press

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henry Fothergill Chorley, Aug 10, 1853

Browning courts Chorley, trying to convince him that the Brownings are fond of him. Apparently, Robert Browing misbehaved in the past which offended Chorley. She tells Chorley how Charlotte Cushman praised his play. Browning speaks of Cushman's…

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Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Charlotte Cushman, [ca.] Jan 1859

Bronwing invites Cushman over. Credit The Brownings Correspondence

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