Letter from Helen Hunt to Charlotte Cushman, May 17, 1871

Letter from Helen Hunt to Charlotte Cushman, May 17, 1871

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

Illness

Jackson, Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt is worried about how tired Charlotte Cushman had looked the last time she saw her, and that Cushman might not get enough rest since she is too caring about others. Otherwise, there was nothing new for her to write about, except that she has been ill.

Credit

Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

For transcripts, please also see Colorado College.

Hunt, Helen Jackson, 1830-1885

LoC, CCP 11: 3400-3401

1871-05-17

Reference

[3400] Darling Queen Woman,

Am left disquieted. You looked so tired. Will you ever rest? So much giving out of vitality as you did in Boston can’t but hurt you. You are caring down your life for others daily. I suppose you can’t help it. But if you only could!
Nothing new here. I have been on

[3401] my lounge for three days, but had, on the whole, the most comfortable and natural illness I have had since December. I am certainly very much better than when the winter began.
Don’t say it is not good for me to be here. It hurts and troubles me, to have a point in all my thinking or living, which is out of harmony with your wish or your judgement. My Great Grand darling!

[reverse 3400] Some day when I see you more quietly perhaps I can win you to see all as I see it; - most of all – to do justice to the sweetest patientest most self sacrificing human soul that ever walked in chains! – You can’t tell me of any fault I do not see. I know some which you do not.

[reverse 3401 is missing]

Hunt, Helen Jackson, 1830-1885

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

Newport, Rhode Island

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