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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;
&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;
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            <text>&lt;p&gt;[page 1] one word of loving thanks dearest Annie for your sweet remembrance of this day for me. Sallie laid upon my pillow this morning – your lovely volume of Landor's Hellenics. &amp;amp; I was so pleased – this &amp;amp; a lovely pair of ear. rings (to match my +++ buttons &amp;amp; pin.) which my dear Emma gave me. &amp;amp; a little box of bonbons which Grace Greenwoods [sic] little girl brought me this morning. &amp;amp; Jamies [sic] "Glimpses" are my land marks of the day. I am very happy w [with] them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 2] all. but especially my books. which last forever! Thank you dear. and Jamie for remembering me so sweetly: You will have heard from Emma I suppose by this time as I know she purposed writing to you yesterday. She will have told you what a weary journey we had to New York &amp;amp; how cold we found it. Henry Stebbins was so delighted with his +++. he will have written to you also. I left my darling yesterday morning. &amp;amp; came on here. Tired, weary. foot sore. heart tired. arrived at 1. went to my rehearsal. Things bothering me very much. read the &lt;a href="https://books.google.de/books?id=cUQvAQAAIAAJ&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The Amber Gods: And Other Stories By Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford"&gt;Desert Sands&lt;/a&gt;. which affected me most powerfully - as much&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[page 3] the most artistic thing I have ever read of Mrs Prescott. &amp;amp; then to the Theatre. where a very fine house awaited me - although Xmas Eve - is proverbially bad Every where: came home very late. very cross. slept well &amp;amp; this morning awoke with stiff neck cold in my head &amp;amp; many miserables. I feel so lonely without my other, &amp;amp; much very better half. Sallie is out to dinner. &amp;amp; I am &lt;u&gt;alone&lt;/u&gt; for the rest of the day. This is rest. but on this day of all others one wants &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;somebody&lt;/span&gt; do they not? &amp;amp; the silence compared with Boston is appalling. However I hope to get some reading done now &amp;amp; heaven knows I have need&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[page 4] I am much delighted with +++ article on Page. &amp;amp; what he says of me. is wondrous. do you think that an Editor note might put my name at the bottom of the page. or is it sufficient? I very much want a likeness of Emerson. with his own writing presented to me. &amp;amp; one of Longfellow &amp;amp; one of Holmes. &amp;amp; Lowell. &amp;amp; Whittier. do you think you could accomplish this for me? against my coming back in April?— Now God bless you dear give my best love to Jamie. &amp;amp; believe me ever most affectionately &lt;br /&gt;Your attached Charlotte&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
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            <text>Fields, Annie, 1834-1915</text>
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            <text>p. 154 needs to be scanned</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; describes &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/2" title="Emma Stebbins"&gt;Emma Stebbins&lt;/a&gt; as her "much better half" and her "darling." She tells &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/60" title="Annie Fields"&gt;Annie&lt;/a&gt; about their stressful journey to NYC and about a favorable article about herself that she encountered. She desires "a likeness of Emerson. with his own writing presented to me. &amp;amp; one of Longfellow &amp;amp; one of Holmes. &amp;amp; Lowell. &amp;amp; Whittier."&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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