https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/a616b3bd686163b6233d4b279f84ecb5.pdf f178ff7aea95ca58fbad325ea1622221 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. 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Text Any textual data included in the document [198] New York. Oct 26th 1860 Dearest & best beloved of my heart! The days have gone like maniacs. & in their course have taken my resolution my pleasures away from me. I have purposed & wanted. oh so much. to write to you. my chiefest pleasure in absence from you - is, first, in thinking of you, then in writing to you. You know, you believe this. your own heart tells you how dearly I love you. & how much I would wish to be with you even in this miserable & unsatisfactory way, any communion is better than none. & I find comfort even in this way for I love you my precious one. just as dearly as you would have me. think of you just ar fondly & admiringly. want You just as much as you want me The dear you, of my life is to think how near you are to me. how much nearer you will be to me. ever long. all mine.   [198 reverse] ever since I have been in New York, I have been so driven in one way and another. That I have never felt myself at liberty to take leisure time for writing as my heart dictates to you. you darling we retured to a house- which had to be put in +++ +++. to be habitable tell this fell upon aunt Emma: you know how helpful I am +++. & I feel I can say this to you without the chance of being thought egotestical but when she is in the case. & has any ing to do. of course I am more help- ful than usual. consequently whenever anything comes to her to do. I have to do it for her. Mrs Stebbins The same so I have had a world of occupation. another thing. This last week my rehearsals have begun again- so I have been much occupied with them all my mornings being spent at the Theatre. my afternoons have been the only time for my letters & of this I am   [199] obliged to take an hour or two for sleep or rest- for indeed my brain is too busy to let me sleep.- Then all my evenings at the play - that I have been unable to write to you. I have had business letters to write of such importance they that so have taiken all the brains try to I had left. I comfort you by saying that I have not written to dear Ned for a week & I try to comfort him by telling him I have not written to you for 12 long weary days. How Strange woman nature is that we should try to satisfy one - with the losses of another. God bless my own sweet love she is dear & good & +++ & loving which I write to her or not. & takes for granted that my love for her continues ever as strong & beautiful as it ever was from the first Darling did we not love each other very quickly. & has it not grown very easily This it shall ever do my & pacefully   [199 reverse] precious one. until in "to the down". - I had such a nice letter from Ned darling that I enclosed it for your father to read and then when the Fields +++ home to Boston - they wrote me back a very sweet letter. & the part of it +++ referred to Ned. I also cut out & send to your father. for I want him to see +++ other people think of my own chicken as well as the character of  his own +++ when he writes to me. Have I done something[?] my precious? I like your father to see how much I trust him & how much affectionate confidence exists between +++ & myself! But if you think I was wrong I shall be sorry. Your father wrote such a nice note about Ned that pleased me & I sent that to Ned so I try to put every body on a good +++ towards each other. - Darling. I am getting very tired of my work. & all the business I have to attend to. If I had only my professional labours. It would not be much. but I have so much   [200] to do. to try to take care of & get possession of that which I have already earned and thought would be sufficient for all my needs. but which I am, & have been so shamefully wronged out of by unworthy people. The letters I have to write would trouble your dear heart to see & Heaven knows whether they will result in anything. For the first time do I feel to be in the hands of an honest friend -in your good father - I am working now to put as much money into his hands to invest for me as I possibly can. so that I may have enough to live[?] upon comfortably & happily in a style which justifys my many years of hard work entitles me to. & then I must leave all the rest– & if any thing comes of it in after time[?] - it will be clear gain but if not. I must sigh & look upon it as the lost! - Why should I +++ you with all this. only to tell you my own sweet one that you are not neglected & that in my not writing   [200 reverse] you are not +++ thought of. God be with you my sweet. I will write again soon. +++ +++. you will see +++ the many letters I write to your dearest father that I must be busy. He will be able to tell you often how I am +++ health. & that will be a comfort to you. I wrote your father about seeing[?] "Hattie, the selfish" off. so I need not recapitulate that. - I love you +++ own. I have so many things to write to you about & no time to do it. I am so called off that I dont  know what I have written. God bless you love love me as I love you & want +++ kiss me down deep into your +++ fondly devoted passionably Your own Ladie 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 Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 Location The location of the interview New York Geocode (Latitude) 40.7127281 Geocode (Longitude) -74.0060152 Admin Comment Comments for further research, pending questions, tasks that still have to be completed Merrill quotes from this letter; Is she talking about Hosmer as selfish? 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 Emma Crow, Oct 26, 1860 Description An account of the resource <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Charlotte Cushman</a> writes to <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/6" title="Emma Crow Cushman">Emma Crow</a> that she loves her and wants to see her again, feeling comfort in writing her. Due to being otherwise occupied, Cushman has been unable to write sooner, and now talks about a fresh start of rehearsals. She admits having trusted in the wrong people for her financial affairs. Eventually, Cushman found an honest firend in <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/7" title="Wayman Crow">Wayman Crow</a> who can be trusted to invest for her so that she might live comfortably and happily. She works hard to make up for her past mistakes and reach financial security. <h3>Credit</h3> <a href="https://www.loc.gov/">Library of Congress</a>, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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 LoC, CCP 1:198-200 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1860-10-26 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0216 Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Crow, Wayman, 1808-1885 Cushman, Edwin "Ned" Charles, 1838-1909 Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920 Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex Finances Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 Gossip--Private breach of privacy financial concerns gossip--unpublished love