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Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth

Cushman talks about acting as Hamlet and fears she caught an inflammation of the throat. Her engagement was cut short, most likely because Edwin Booth will play the part of Hamlet after her. She asks Mary to have Edwin commission a pattern of the…

Tags: gender norms/bending, illness/death

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, 1859[?]

Cushman sends Mary pearls from Rome. Mary is currently in Boston and Cushman urges her to go to New York. Cushman herself is leaving London for Rome where she will spend the winter. She plans on returning to the United States in May 1860.

Tags: London, Rome, social capital, travel/touring

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, May 7, 186[?]

Cushman writes to Mary, apologizing for leaving Boston without a note. She states that she wishes Edwin Booth would leave the country over the next winter but does not want to press him on it.

Tags: social capital, travel/touring

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Mary Devlin Booth, Nov. 1, 1860

Mary Booth has left New York for Philadelphia with her "boy" Edwin without saying goodbye to Cushman. Mary proposed the idea of acting with Edwin to Cushman who considers the benefits of the arrangement. She suggests that her fame in New York could…

Tags: public image (active), social capital

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth, July 27, 1871

Cushman is waiting for word from her Doctor but she feels confident that she will be able to act in "Macbeth" for Booth on the 25th of September. She inquires who will play Macbeth and suggests Davenport.

Tags: illness/death

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth, July 19, 1871

Cushman is waiting for a reply from her Doctor as to whether she will be able to act in "Macbeth" for Booth on the 25th of September.

Tags: illness/death, travel/touring

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth, July 30, 1871

Cushman mentions that she missed Booth's letter of the 23rd because she was traveling. She urges him to engage Davenport as Macbeth for she will have to carry the play on her own otherwise. She mentions that she does not care so much who plays the…

Tags: social capital, travel/touring

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Edwin Booth, July 12, 1871

Cushman writes to Booth regarding her engagement as Lady Macbeth. Booth wants to engage her for 6 rather than 8 weeks and she inquires whether she could begin work on the 9th of October rather than the 25th of September as she fears her Doctor might…

Tags: illness/death, social capital

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.

Tags: social capital

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.

Tags: illness/death

Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Unknown, Aug. 7, 1872

Cushman states that she cannot act scenes from "Guy Manning" and "Macbeth" in one night. She proposes to split the two plays on different evenings.

Tags: travel/touring

Emma Stebbins to Anne Whitney, August 5, 1879

Stebbins tells Whitney how happy she is that their friendship still remains to this day and that Anne Whitney keeps up the correspondence. She then responds to Whitney's comments on art and how hard it is to learn from mistakes in sculpture since one…

Tags: illness/death, women's jobs

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Charlotte Cushman

Charlotte Cushman becomes widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as the first successful US-American actress. Earlier, she was a singer under the tutelage of James G. Maeder, married to actress Clara Fisher, in Boston. Charlotte has been the sole financial support of her mother since her father…