https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/6dc3dbaf33ff8e1fbe4444e9776786e7.pdf bed2aa66430bfbba538db0015f9bdcd0 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from CC to JT, November 21, 1862 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charlotte Cushman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived James T. Fields Papers, Huntington Library, FI 689 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-11-21 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Cushmania Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Gossip--Published Gossip--Private Relationships--Networks Italy--Rome Description An account of the resource A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a>) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century. 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, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>." <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><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" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><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" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Letter A resource containing textual messages sent from one person to another or one person to many people. Text Any textual data included in the document [page 1] Dear J.T F. Tilton has arrived. by him I hear many things. among the finest. That he entirely forgot what he was to do with the little +++ sketch painted by Miss Adams & sent by me to trace the walls belonging to my children. I sent a number of things by him--& imagined that they would reach their destination through his care. alas. some of them Ned only recd [received] the day before he left for St Louis. & never knew at all what had become of his little picture & felt awkwardly about asking Tilton about it--thinking it was one of Tiltons [sic] own--& that perhaps he had found a customer for it. Many years ago. I made up my mind that it would be a mistake to trust any of your sex hence my spinsterhood. why was I ever so weak as to trust my property to one of them. I wont [sic] again. so there I have quietly remarked to Tilton, that men [page 2] are but weak things after all. Then too I have another proof in you having such an opportuny [sic] of sending a lot of books to my fortunates living in Rome. Why we would have been glad even to have paid trade price. if you had bought them in New York & sent them - having forgotten them in Boston - but there. your conscience must have been in a state of bluster [?] ever since, so I wont [sic] +++ you any more! I dare say you think us ungrateful. because I never thank you for those lovely books of Mintheops [?]. lovely & cool & brisk & +++ & new as nature! They have delighted us & many other weary tired souls [?] & we have thanked you over & over again. and now what shall I say. we are back in Rome. a little later this year! & shaking down into our corner. Miss Adams is here & working like a Trojan. She seems very comfortably situated with two good working women & is well & happy. I have not been allowed to go to her studio yet. as she "had nothing to show" - but in a day or two I am to be allowed! Miss Truman is also here with them. as nervous as inscrutable as ever. very clever with her fingers, [page 3] but oh so painfully shy & silent. Emma. our Emma Stebbins--is at work upon a sketch for a little statue of "Joseph being seventies [sic] years old was feeding the flock" - and then she will get to a "baby nurcery [sic]". Suggested by Shelleys [?, sic] +++ to Mercury [?]. The statue of Mann is not yet just off to Munich. it is waiting for another month [?] to be taken of [sic] in. for fear it should get broken in the sending — & the man who makes them is deeply busy. Besides exchange is at such an awful point [?]. That +++ one quarter or one third of the money would be lost to them by having it sent now. & it would not be right for Emma to lose it--would it?-- Send send oh send the Atlantic Monthly. my soul aches for it Tilton brought the Nov' number. but I have not the October.--I hear you are making your fortune. alas why am not I. If Emma had only been content to stop in America this year. I would have made mine too. but she would not. & I sit here & +++! Our Minister has come & is very nice. so is Mrs Minister so am I so are you. so is Emma so is Annie why does she never write. Ever yours, Truly Charlotte Cushman  [page 1 added] P.S. write to Ned about the picture!  From The name and email address of the person sending the email Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 Location The location of the interview Rome, Italy Geocode (Latitude) 41.8933203 Geocode (Longitude) 12.4829321 Location (Recipient) Boston Geocode Recipient (Latitude) 42.3602534 Geocode Recipient (Longitude) -71.0582912 Dublin Core 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/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Charlotte Cushman to James Fields, Nov 21, 1862 Description An account of the resource Tilton has not been handling the sending of <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Cushman</a>'s belongings very well. Cushman is grateful for the books <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/59" title="James T. Fields">James Fields</a> has sent her way, but comments on him forgetting to do so as of lately. These two issues cause her describe men (="sex") as weak and the reason for her "spinsterhood." She urges him to send her the October copy of the Atlantic Monthly, at the same time complaining about <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/60" title="Annie Fields">Annie Fields</a> never writing her. James Fields is "making [his] fortune." Cushman laments that she missed her chance this year: "alas why am not I. If Emma had only been content to stop in America this year. I would have made mine too." <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/2" title="Emma Stebbins">Emma Stebbins</a> has been working on a new statue but has issues with sending the Mann statue as she would lose money because of the exchange rate and is afraid of it being broken on the way.   <h3>Credit</h3> <a href="https://www.huntington.org/">Huntington Library</a>, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Huntington, JTFP, Box 12, FI 689 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-11-21 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0146 Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 Artists--Sculptors--US American Finances Arts--Sculpture Atlantic Monthly Gender Norms Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex financial concerns gender norms/bending public intimacy Rome same-sex attraction social capital