<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="1021" public="1" featured="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1021?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-10-04T12:09:42+00:00">
  <fileContainer>
    <file fileId="1037">
      <src>https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/6819edc50caf10f8dea64bac55ae4fa7.pdf</src>
      <authentication>74c5a0cb46ef9e0cafcb67480437aa93</authentication>
    </file>
  </fileContainer>
  <collection collectionId="1">
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>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/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="5">
                <text>Cushmania</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="49">
            <name>Subject</name>
            <description>The topic of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="6">
                <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="7">
                <text>Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="8">
                <text>Gossip--Published</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="13195">
                <text>Gossip--Private</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="13196">
                <text>Relationships--Networks</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="13197">
                <text>Italy--Rome</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="41">
            <name>Description</name>
            <description>An account of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="9">
                <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;
&lt;h6 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"&gt;&lt;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" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/"&gt;Palladio&lt;/a&gt; visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)&lt;/h6&gt;&#13;
&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;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="48">
            <name>Source</name>
            <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="10">
                <text>Library of Congress</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="11">
                <text>New York Public Library</text>
              </elementText>
              <elementText elementTextId="12">
                <text>Philadelphia Historical Society</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
          <element elementId="40">
            <name>Date</name>
            <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="13">
                <text>1816-00-00/1920-00</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </collection>
  <itemType itemTypeId="18">
    <name>Letter</name>
    <description>A resource containing textual messages sent from one person to another or one person to many people.</description>
    <elementContainer>
      <element elementId="1">
        <name>Text</name>
        <description>Any textual data included in the document</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="19487">
            <text>[page 4] &lt;br /&gt;[Letter from Charlotte Cushman addressed to] Mrs Sarah J. Hale. Editor of "Lady's Book" Philadelphia Tremont House Boston Sep "22nd 18[??] &lt;br /&gt;Dear Madam. Business of an urgent nature has alone prevented me from sooner replying to your kind favour of the 17 "inst. In acknowledgement of your flattering request I have no copy of the sketch of me, which Mary Howitt wrote. yet I should so much prefer your selecting what you required. from that sooner. that I will send to London by Wednesday's mail. for a copy. It will, most likely reach me somewhere about the end of +++. Will that be too late? [page 5] I will also write. to my friend. Eliza Cook to ask her permission. to let me give you any particular of her early life. which may live in my memory. I shall be in N.Y. from the 7" to the end of Oct &amp;amp; probably in Phila, after that time. When I could give you verbally, perhaps a better description [inserted for illegible, crossed-out word] than I could write of her. An account which would tend to correct the very erroneous ideas, which are entertained not only in this country. but in England respecting her. She is a wonderfully gifted woman, but few know how gifted, &amp;amp; I should be glad to have a true woman like yourself give to the world a true account of her. Trusting that I may have the pleasure of seeing you. Either in New York or Boston Phila. &amp;nbsp;I remain Ever very truly Yours Charlotte Cushman Mrs S. J. Hale</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="19">
        <name>From</name>
        <description>The name and email address of the person sending the email</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="19488">
            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="20">
        <name>To</name>
        <description>The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="19489">
            <text>Hale, Sarah Josepha, 1788-1879</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
    </elementContainer>
  </itemType>
  <elementSetContainer>
    <elementSet elementSetId="1">
      <name>Dublin Core</name>
      <description>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/.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="50">
          <name>Title</name>
          <description>A name given to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19476">
              <text>Letter from Charlotte Cushman to Sarah Josepha Hale, Sep 22, 1830</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="49">
          <name>Subject</name>
          <description>The topic of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19477">
              <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19478">
              <text>Hale, Sarah Josepha, 1788-1879</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19479">
              <text>Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19480">
              <text>Reputation</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19481">
              <text>Relationships--Networks</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19482">
              <text>Journalists/Writers</text>
            </elementText>
            <elementText elementTextId="19483">
              <text>United States--Philadelphia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="41">
          <name>Description</name>
          <description>An account of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19484">
              <text>Harold Moulton sends photostatic copies of two autographed letters to Lorenz in &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/286"&gt;this correspondence&lt;/a&gt;. For the transcription of the second letter, see &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1020"&gt;Item 1020&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The first letter is from Charlotte Cushman to Mrs Sarah J. Hale, Editor of “Lady’s Book” (Philadelphia). Cushman would like to "correct" the public image of Eliza Cook and Hale will publish this account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;a href="https://www.loc.gov/"&gt;Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="48">
          <name>Source</name>
          <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19485">
              <text>LoC, JLP 5</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="40">
          <name>Date</name>
          <description>A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19486">
              <text>1830-09-22</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="46">
          <name>Relation</name>
          <description>A related resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19490">
              <text>&lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/286"&gt;Copied Correspondence by Harold Moulton sent to Jennie Lorenz, Sept 25, 1950&lt;/a&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="43">
          <name>Identifier</name>
          <description>An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19491">
              <text>1021</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="51">
          <name>Type</name>
          <description>The nature or genre of the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="19492">
              <text>Reference</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
  <tagContainer>
    <tag tagId="6">
      <name>public image (active)</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="40">
      <name>publicity</name>
    </tag>
  </tagContainer>
</item>
