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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;
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&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;[2997]&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;My dear Cornelia&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;Your[?] of Friday[?] recd yesterday&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;glad to hear your party to Miss C. went off so +++&amp;nbsp; notwithstanding the Easterly Storm—It stormd [sic] here Monday[?] &amp;amp; yesterday am but is now bright, clear &amp;amp; pleasant, &amp;amp; the ball of rain was much needed &amp;amp; will do a great deal of good—Monday at 11am yr mother had a note fm [from] May[?] Chanvenit[?], say Holden had a Telegram just rec&lt;sup&gt;d&lt;/sup&gt; or deny him away[?] to Wilmington +++, &amp;amp; they would be married at 3 P.m to leave at 6—&amp;amp; asking her &amp;amp; myself to be present— we went, saw Dr &amp;amp; Mrs Eliot&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[2997 reverse] Eliot—M&lt;sup&gt;rs&lt;/sup&gt; Keim &amp;amp; Miss Irvine—M&lt;sup&gt;rs&lt;/sup&gt; Gantt, sister &amp;amp; +++—Mrs Judge [Riber] &amp;amp; Miss Mack—Mr Stuart the Sweden +++ Pastor married them—+++&amp;nbsp; Miss[?] Mack &amp;amp; Henry C. Miss Gantt as attendants, the bride in white +++&amp;nbsp; looked very pretty, no veil &amp;amp; the groom in Regimentals, &amp;amp; gold +++&amp;nbsp; afterwards Cake &amp;amp; wine &amp;amp; we left, &amp;amp; at 6—they went via Vandalia to Balt&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt; to travel right thro' to Wilmington arrive there thursday—Col.&lt;sup&gt;o&lt;/sup&gt; Grantt is last. +++ by +++ or +++ or his neck—I hope not the latter or it may go hard with +++&amp;nbsp; we go to night to see&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[2998] Stilsson at +++&amp;nbsp; yr mother &amp;amp; I called &amp;amp; saw her yesterday[?]. She was glad to see +++ — unfortunately Mrs Richarts— took up much of the visit telling of her loosing her Jewelry [illegible, crossed out] She was here—Miss N. goes to Chicago tomorrow where she is to meet her French Lover who landed a day or two ago—&amp;amp; +++ to California to be back in all[?] June to NYork &amp;amp; New Port— Tomorrow might we are to have the +++—+++ Mrs Thomson to tea &amp;amp; possibly the +++&amp;nbsp; as +++ Lewis is at her mothers Mr L. being out at Dinner—&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[2998 reverse] Mr. Yeatman ging his annual +++time to the blind school tonight or rather this P.m. &amp;amp; as yet uncertain when he can get off, as he is waiting some matters he hopes to finish up this week, &amp;amp; possibly we may go Sunday P.m— tho' it is uncertain M&lt;sup&gt;rs&lt;/sup&gt; Jim[?] Yeatman went on the same train monday with +++ &amp;amp; +++ bride—She returning to New Haven as King &amp;amp; Emm+++ have given up her house I have written for Rooms for +++&amp;nbsp; Mr C. or June 19th July January &amp;amp; Party go or Russia[?] 26 July— +++ fm +++ 18 May +++ +++&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;There is no mentionof Charlotte Cushman. Social gatherings mentioned&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;a href="https://www.loc.gov/"&gt;Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;span&gt;Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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