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. 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, <a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">browse all items</a> in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "<a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exhibits</a>." <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"><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" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)</h6> <h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"><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" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)</h6> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress New York Public Library Philadelphia Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1816-00-00/1920-00 Letter A resource containing textual messages sent from one person to another or one person to many people. From The name and email address of the person sending the email Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866 To The name(s) and email address(es) of the person to whom the email was sent Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Location The location of the interview 5 Cheyne Row Chelsea, UK Geocode (Latitude) 51.4837173 Geocode (Longitude) -0.169603 Provenance What is the source of the piece of information, where is it derived from? E.g. archive (e.g. scans), research notes by a someone who had access to archival material, published (e.g. in an edited version) , citation (e.g. cited in secondary literature) Carlyle, Jane Welsh, et al. Jane Carlyle: Newly selected letters /  edited by Kenneth J. Fielding and David R. Sorensen. Routledge, 2017, pp. 263-264. Text Any textual data included in the document If believe in one human will having power over another even thro' some miles of other human beings?— if I believe in Spiritual Mag[n]etism?— Most assuredly' I believe in it absolutely and entirely! It is the great Central Fact Of the Universe for me! concentrated Essence Of Life! — I wouldn't say as much in 'mixed company'; knaves and idiots have so taken the name Of Magnetism in vain—so disgraced and disecrated it With their Clairvoyant Champaign Breakfasts— their after-dinner table-turnings—all their brutal nonsenses, that to declare oneself a firm believer in Magnetism—and in little else—were to expose oneself uselessly to the misconception of the greater number: but it suits my humour to begin my correspondence with you by a confidence! For the rest; I do wish to see you; do wish to hear from you;do love you; (you know that; why make me say it?) And, further I mean, deliberately and imperatively, that we two should be friends for the rest of our lives, —and good ones—to make up for lost time. That is my modest meaning; understand!— Set yourself against it if you can! In reading your programme I thought for a few moments of asking Mrs Dilberoglue to let me meet you once more in her dear little Temple of Concord, on Sunday evening; or asking yourself to make Time to come here again one morning before our departure— But the idea was quickly rejected. The impression left on my mind by our Parting the other evening was so good! so exactly the sort of impression of you I wished to keep till your return next June, and suppose I managed to arrange another—parting; how easily, in the prosaic unsettledness and bustle of the next days, might there arise something from without or from within to make the second parting less satisfactory to think of than that other! and to disturb or mar the impression or that other, which I wished to keep intact! A cowardly apprehension you may think! at least a nervous one! But. anyhow it came to me with the impressiveness of a Monition Of Nature; and having no 'principles of conduct' 'to speak of,' the more need I should give heed to my Instincts!! You will write to me when you are settled—? I mean when you have leisure of mind and body— I dont want a letter written. as I am writing this one, in a worry of Things! I have the strangest thing to tell you about your flowers! The moment I set my eyes on them, and before setting my eyes on the note, and in face of the glaring improbability that grapes and flowers should be sent from the same person, on the same day by two different messengers (!) I knew somehow—knew as assuredly as if I had taken them out of your hand—that those flowers were from you! My maid, in entering the room with them from Mr Ruskin I think mam'! — at least it isn't his man that brought them: 'NO' I said as if I had known Of their coming 'they are from Miss Cushman.' And I knew the note was from you, before I had looked at the signature or read a word of it! I did not know the handwriting yet I knew it was yours! I must stop— I have to go up to Piccadilly to arrange about—about— Oh Dear me about something much above my capacity! viz placing Mr C's horse out at grass for a few weeks!! He has gone and got himself bitten, (the horse not Mr C) on the neck by another horse, and Mr C who calls himself or is called a Philosopher is so ashamed of thc trifling disfigurement to his Horse's beauty, that he declines taking him on a visit to an Aristocratic Stable—and I (!) must find him a month's grazing somewhere!— My Dear! Men are—what shall I say? – strange upon my honour! God Bless you—kind regards to Miss Stebbins with the clear fine eyes and gentle smile—your / affectionate Jane Annotations annotations added by someone other than members of the project's researcher team; those annotations may have been added by the producer/creator of the item, an archivist, or by another researcher who had access to the archival material; may be specified as known or suspected due to context and content "early Sept. 1861" was added by unknown 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 Jane Carlyle to Charlotte Cushman, [Sept. 1861] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-09-00 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0238 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LoC, CCP Description An account of the resource This letter is one of the first ones that <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/55" title="Jane Welsh Carlyle">Jane Carlyle</a> sends to <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/1" title="Charlotte Cushman">Charlotte Cushman</a>. Carlyle writes about Spiritual Magnetism and a note from Cushman. Eventually, she tells Cushman about "strange" men among whom is her husband. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866 Subject The topic of the resource Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876 Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Friendship Gender Norms Relationships--Networks gender norms/bending love same-sex attraction social capital