https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/9e4cca6efed6b9ac62911fd3beae3391.pdf d7f842f354591355368cf874c7b2bcf7 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 [p. 1] 5 / Rome Apr. 30 - it was a month yesterday since any letter arrived from you my beloved & best sister +++ possesses this mail to serve us equally for the frst time such a mischancy[?] trick! The papers come as they shd & the reports of the trial become more & more interesting. It will be a great relief when it is fairly certain that the +++ is +++. it did not seem possible when +++ stepped out that a man more infamous wd. ever step in. But there's the first of the Roman emperors to keep us modest. in our estimate of +++ May 2th - Yr letter of the 14 Apr arrived last Thurs. with no report of the missing one. now that lost letter must have been a very interesting one. There are hints in this of some of the events mentioned there. +++ other things learned in that way. I gather that it +++ his been married, the last thing on earth I shd. have expected. for if ever I heard the most thorough contempt holy borders,   +++ for the +++ estate of +++, expressed by human lips, those lips were A. C's- Well - "we know what we are" as the +++ says. 2C. I hope her hus- band's +++ justified the latest word. wh. +++ are of encouragement. Poor Henry Lock, & poor mother of him! I am so sorry that +++ disappointed them! & what else will Henry do but work on the farm? Now, my dear Paset[?] I grieve to check fr personal gratitude or seek of those pickles & things wh. were not intended for Yr delectation [p.2]   but - were sent - as gift - to for [crossed out]  Mother & Father & I suppose were intended to be directed to Mother Paret +++ - +++  is xtremely [sic] disappointed that half of them were peaches - as she sent word that blackberries & more especially cherries wh. she says are more delicious shd. be put up wilh the rest. But they will keep you +++ & I dare say can be eaten in time. Yr. description of april in +++ made us laugh– didn't it say, that such weather was impartial [?] & went the rounds? How I dare say you are having a touch of  summer. We have it in full & the garden of the princess is a mess of bloom & odor such heaps of roses - of  migorette. +++ +++ +++ & all flowers that we hold most refined & delicious - Such great stretches on the long high walls of +++ & lemon trees in full blossom & fruit - it - is a paradise – Last week her H. sent for us to come & see her as she was sick & about to depart for some +++ baths. She has left her garden to us to go there as after & stay as long as we desire - but - alas that I shd say so there was no mention of any picking privilege & of all that enomrous wealth or roses – dying by +++ -  +++ on the bushes she plucked two & gave us each one - But confusion I say or those who +++ at what they don't get. & are not grateful for what they do. we +++ there the Princess somebody & perhaps I forgot to tell you that +++ our guests  on +++ miration night was another princess [p.3] somebody – Do feel awed by this liberal mention of Princesses? Don't  – dont [sic] waste any +++ that way. You wd +++ if you saw them. But we did meet with a very attractive young girl – friendly & beautiful in manner at Tell's platte. a +++ +++ - she was there some days with her father & mother & took quite a liking to us, She spoke english xcellently [sic] well But I shall begin to wonder if we see any more nobility about these parts who they are who compose the rank & file. Our rus- sian friend - whose little we do not know to whom we have given the sorbriquet - of Ps invited us there to meet the duchess of some string from Florence (russian) - Who is a sculptress - but we did not see her & at that time I forgot to ask why she was not present.as regards nobility here & as espec- ially princesses - I dont know the law of their multiplication, perhaps +++ Buckle did but the time may come when plain John & Jane may be distinctions-  Let us hope Perhaps +++ have seen in the papers at home a smell fire - work of H. Hosmer's with refce to the monopoly of the honors of the hunt (Fox) (wh is pur- sued here +++ the writer with great +++ ness) by the Italians. In wh. said H. complains that the "Brush" has never been presented to her nor to any other than Ital. ladies, tho, they are always last- & in after "the death" - There has been a little tempest - in a lie pot & the American pest has +++ [p.4] from the club in consequence - I shd not wonder if some I our smart new papers like the +++, shd treat the affair to a little sarcasm - Miss Cushman & Miss Stebbins leave Rome on the 17th for America. & will not return till just bef. Christman - Miss S., thinks she may be obliged to remain there this winter. Miss C. has had a pretty severe winter. never she says has there been such a rush! & her time as all given to taking strangers in - it is an unconscionable task wh. she imposes on herself—to see & entertain crowds of people whom she doesnt [sic] care for, + wd. never know again. She is going to give readings to the music hall people in the fall. In order to put into marble some rebellions presented to them by herself & bought of a danish sculptor here! We met Dr. Lymer the American episcopel clergymen at a neighbor's the other +++. who gave us some acct of the doings of the archeological society of wh. any one I believe becomes a member by the +++ of +++ Mr. Parker the head of a +++ publishing house in Oxford Eng. spends all his spare time & means grabbing in & about Rome +++ is too poor to carry on +++ of itself - & makes them only so fast as it is furnished with funds by +++ outsiders. If one had the time it wd. be [p. 5] interesting to join in the search. tho I doubt if I have the +++ mania to follow it up. They found the other day some enormous cut out of the solid rock with the pillars of rough stone +++ just as they were +++. This is more puz- zling than anything yet come across. but they know it to be the site of an old city also they came across a great +++ of  delicious water wh, formerly was one of those wh. supplied Rome - never was a city so well provided for in this respect. So see what +++ fountains shed then +++ a- bundance now when but one or two of the acqueducts remain gives some +++ of what must have been then. Mr Parker +++ previous researchers knew of the xistence[sic] of this rest; in the - but had sought for it in rain & pounced upon it at last of course with the deligh- of a +++ upon a new planet. They found a long piece of acqueduct cut out of solid. The reason that so much of the acqueducts was built above ground as that it was necessary or the +++ of the force of water to make the movement +++ - since +++ romans did not understand or did not use iron pipes the only thing that is able to resist the pressure. Last Sunday we wen to see the old wherf lately brought to light & (a part of it on the muddy bark of the tiber. It is built with great neatness & beauty of +++ bricks - with soled stone projections to +++ +++ to & large blocks of hardsom [sic] Egyptian marbles lie about embedded in the mud - [p. 6] it is a wonder to me how such things even get covered up. The tiber is not altogether the kind of stream & +++ +++. It is a deep strong +++ thing much more of a river than I had supposed but the color doesn't disappoint you - it is dirtier that the Missi - If that is possible. The banks are more beautiful in then spring ten- derness of green - & we ere thinking it wd. be a pleasant thing to do, to go down to the see in a boat. Yesterday as I was passing a workman who +++ with others was digging a new st., he showed me the little bronze leg & foot of a bird with a cor- nelian globe in claw, very nicely xecuted [sic] wh he he had just found - this with a few old coins & xchanged for a few coppers - There was never such a place for any one who has time to +++ about as this not simply under ground I mean but every where shops +++. old palaces & endless celira[?] These seems to be scarcely any +++ that may not find +++ & satisfaction here. I am aghast sometimes when I get little side-glimpses of the pursuits that may be & are carried on here, to think how many things & miss confined to my +++ line of +++. But - one life-time after all suffices for but one thing & to grasp night & lift leaves one a little poorer than the persistent clutching of one thing However this must be said-. that wuth the material means one might constantly be thrown in the way of acquiring formation highly useful in one's own walk- even if outside [p. 7] the line of direct study. so very occasionally I am smitten with a touch of envy when I see people with much means & more leisure philandering round & picking up things Sunday May 13. I am very grateful for the cold of last winter or whatever agency it might have been wh. devastated fleedom[?] to such a degree. I am sure I speak within +++ that in saying that to this is ad a hundred to one. but everything is backward. – Strawberries are too dear[?] for our eating still & if Belmont "chills in the rear" in its degree yet will not be picking till of 4th July . I trust poor Mother is not suffering with neuralgia still. The xcessive [sic] cold of the writer must here aggrevated that & other ills. I long to hear again & of Mr. Lambert too - who was just getting better of +++ - Love to them & sym- pathy in their several troubles – It is certain that a hard winter always brings forth a crop of distresses of one sort & another & how our puritan forbears had the grit to settle on that rock with all the whole [crossed out] at- lentic coast - stretching south of it is one of the mysteries of human character. Before I left home James wrote me for an order on Appleton &  ev. for some of my rols. I sent him one for 10 copies. If any way by which 2 or 3 can be sent out to me shd. turn up I shd like it but do not esteem it worth taking too much trouble for Yesterday I had a photogr at my studio to take a picture of the statuette wh. Dr. Gould wants to send to a friend in Buffalo who has commissioned him to buy a statuette [p. 8] he rebukes me for not photographing my things, - but xcept when there is a special cell for it - as in this case - there seems to me not much use in it. The finished window wh. will be sent for this week is so much better in all respects that Camie's[?] & Edwds that I am afraid they will feel ill treated shd. they see the picture, wh - I have not seen yet -/ it was taken yesterday with the other)- It is beautifully done the marble)-, +++ Pell., is memorable as the time of our first - visit - to the Baths ot Caracalla. to wh, we were taken by Dr & Mrs. Gould. Except the collisseum of all the roman ++ it strikes us as the most +++. It occupies an immense area. 104,000 sq yards & tho' within the walls seems as if they were out in the country - +++ as it is by verdure & stillness & approached by a delicious flowering lane. But here as usual +++ baffled to describe. The quiet hells & chambers are open to the sky & the arches seem like +++ to the most gorgeous lapis- lazuli. everywhere Hosid roses are growing +++. the quiet, swimming - bath that was has one continuous border of them. a thing that Caracalla never dreamed of. nor of the endless +++ that gilds the topmost chambers of his delight (the poor devil!) When the granite colums wh supported the roof of one of the hells were removed it fell in with a jar that made Rome think it at earthquake & cd. you see the huge messes of +++ +++ brothers in bigness to the boulders of New Hampshire with petches of mosaic on the smooth [p.9] side wh. in places fill up the area you wd. think the romans had had good argument. There are long petches of beautiful floors. in mosaic of red & green porphyry. & here & there a priece of the living marble left with the beauty of wh. they used to hide the ruggedness of then everlasting +++. These +++ are still comperatively +++ - but there beve been found there some of the most beautiful works of sculpture now in the museum of Naples & the Vatican a torso lately found was out there under the light - for us to see! A splendid thing!- But the thing of most interest to me is the feet that Shelly wrote here his Promis[?] +++ (read his preface to the poem). I cd. live a day there without food on that fact. OShelly – man of men most beautiful. most beloved. how one loves him here not in the [last three words crossed out] in Rome I[?] mean, in the old foxe's hole of +++ & +++ - +++ dead in Rome - buried here - but nowhere any one so alive as he here. I imagine him sitting smiling beside his wedge at the best of Papa's throne. We stayed till sunset & then drove to the Collism not far off & walked in to it & heard the owls cry. Shelly again - & then came home - Alas +++ has left us lone - no. not alone but with     a girl who doesn't fill her place. The Pa- drone (landlord) of the house whose her hus- band is porter +++ +++ a good part of it & wanted her to return & take charge threat- ning [sic] the if she did not he wd turn them both out[?] If we cd. afford it I think we [p. 10] Shd. take to the brettone[?] now for the sake of having less care having a woman to come in only twice a day - but perhaps things will settle soon. It is something to have the earthquake fairly over & revolutions are not so great when they are made on one floor. Tell me if you have to pay any- thing additionally on my letters in Boston?. & have you ever given my love & best remembrance to the Hudsons? I do read from yr letters to Addy - but I thought as there were seldom secrets therein & we were so far from home you wd. have no objection. When that picture was taken it was probably midsummer. but yr eyes have failed probably to discover the sleeping & of Yrs.[?] +++ then that porch we enter & depart everyday - He had a note fr. Bridges few days +++ +++ . She says that May +++ is nd[?] of her fever - but has not as yet much appetite - rides out every day +++. She will recover her strength more +++ when they go north/ they were to go the last of last week) she is probably +++ feeling the effects of the +++ taken to break up the fever. A great many +++ have had some torch of fever this winter fortunately M. Jr. is well. Miss Adams has not been in Rome - is in Paris to believe. At the end of a week probably. all +++ we know but the +++ will have gone - I shd like to have a bill of xchange for 1000 +++ (one thousand) sent me – this shd reach you about the 26th the response wd reach me in time. tho it did not come immediately - (with the bill) I hope to stay till July!– I trust dear mother is all bright again– Love to the dear all. Location The location of the interview Rome Geocode (Latitude) 41.8933203 Geocode (Longitude) 12.4829321 From The name and email address of the person sending the email Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Whitney, Sarah 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 Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, April 30 - May 13, 1868 Description An account of the resource <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/535" title="Anne Whitney">Anne Whitney</a> shares intimate knowledge about acquaintances and discusses aspect of Rome's infrastructure and nature. She reports that <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Charlotte Cushman</a> and <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/2" title="Emma Stebbins">Emma Stebbins</a> leave Rome and announces Cushman's readings in the coming fall. Apparently, Cushman detests receiving guests, whom she does not care about. Among others, <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/21" title="Harriet Goodhue Hosmer">Harriet Hosmer</a> (hunting issues/discrimination) and <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/60" title="Annie Fields">Annie Adams Fields</a> are mentioned. <h3>Credit</h3> <a href="https://repository.wellesley.edu/whitney_correspondence/155/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Letter from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney">Wellesley College Archives, Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4): Correspondence. 155.</a> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://repository.wellesley.edu/whitney_correspondence">Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4): Correspondence</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1868-04-30 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This Correspondence is brought to you for free and open access by the Papers of Anne Whitney (MSS.4) at Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive. Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0230 Subject The topic of the resource Italy--Rome Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915 Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 Gossip--Private Intimacy--As Source Social Events--Misc. artists abroad gossip--unpublished Rome social capital travel/touring women's jobs