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                <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;
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&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;
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            <text>&lt;p&gt;[page 1] Monday&lt;br /&gt;Dearest Annie. Like a goose, I forgot my Shakespere [sic] last night will you please give it to the +++ &amp;amp; will you lend me the Diamond Edition of Lowell for Miss Chapman to look at. another thing I want to ask of Jamie. Miss Stebbins has been in despair over the lack of applause at the Theater. &amp;amp; last Evening gave me the Enclosed paper to give to Jamie to have put into the adver-&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[page 2] Advertiser or Transcript. Will he see that it is done. She thinks the word ought to be spoken-- somebody said something about it in the Evening Gazette yesterday--and a member of these words spoken may rouse the shy. conscious. prudent Scotch Yankee [?] to give the use of his own hands to the artist or lecturer. we had a lovely evening last evening. I was enchanted with Lowell as I always am &amp;amp; have been. &amp;amp; Miss Chapman has completely&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[page 3] lost her heart to him - I enjoyed my evening very &lt;u&gt;very&lt;/u&gt; much &amp;amp; Thank you as ever for every thing you say &amp;amp; do to-me-ward &lt;br /&gt;Love to Jamie &lt;br /&gt;Ever your attached friend &lt;br /&gt;Charlotte&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
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            <text>They actively consider the influence of the press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;location unknown</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman"&gt;Cushman&lt;/a&gt; asks &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/59" title="James T. Fields"&gt;James Fields&lt;/a&gt; for a favor on behalf of &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/2" title="Emma Stebbins"&gt;Stebbins&lt;/a&gt; who was upset about the "lack of applause" at a performance at the theater. Fields should print a comment in the &lt;a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045175/"&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Boston Daily&lt;/em&gt;?] &lt;em&gt;Advertiser&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023791/"&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Boston Daily Evening&lt;/em&gt;?]&lt;em&gt; Transcript&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
&lt;a href="https://www.huntington.org/"&gt;Huntington Library&lt;/a&gt;, James Thomas Fields Papers and Addenda</text>
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