Letter from Charlotte Cushman to James Fields, Sep 25, [1860]

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[page 1] Thanks dear kind friend. for your kind interest in & efforts for my boy. who bears you this. He returned to me quite sanguine that Mr Brown would entertain the idea of having him. & hoped to have gone to him on Thursday for a favourable answer - but last night he received a letter from my old friend Mr Cochran who has found some thing else for him. by the aid of Mr Brown I believe - & he goes to Boston I hope to be settled in a good house where he will get a general knowledge of the business. & facilities in selling goods - which however this opportunity may resolve

[page 2] itself. may [?] be of good to him in whatever business he may eventually put his capital into. Thank you for this & so many other good things that I know not where to begin or end. Will you kindly help him to a boarding house where he will be cured for a little. some good genteel place where he may form nice connexions [sic]. He is going to try and persuade his grand mother to stay with him a little until he gets settled a bit. Will you take a little notice of him. & give him a little counsel as to his associates. He is going to study French with a master. and bookkeeping. which will be well for him to know. I shall be glad if you will from time to time let 

[page 3] him have any money that he may want. when I have failed to supply him with enough. advise him a little as to what books to read & let him have what looks he may want to +++ +++. just advising him if he is likely to be too extravagant - as you so well know how to do. without alarming his pride. or his faith in you. You see how much I ask of you. but I trust your goodness with entire faith. Mr Crow the soul of kindness & goodness. he encourages him in every way. & will be his best friend. He only wants him to wait until he is able to earn enough to support a wife. & then he will have a house & furniture & income given to him & his wife to let them live as she has been accus

[page 4] -tomed to live. & as Mr Crow has fixed no date to this. They will be married as soon as Ned can earn any thing & show himself a steady reliable man. We leave here tomorrow morning for New York. No 20. W. 16" Street will find us - & we hope on the 15" or 16" to receive you. & show you how much we love & value you. I am beginning to look with fear & tumbling to my engagement in New York. The election. & many distractions occupy peoples thoughts too much to let them think of me while +++ is "over the way". never mind Boston Engag^t will come after the Election & that will be fine -
God bless you ever - Your attached friend 
Charlotte Cushman 
Love to Annie 
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