Transcript of Letter from Emma Stebbins to Sidney Lanier, Nov 27, no year [1875?]
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Emma Stebbins assures Lanier that the four of them (Stebbins, Cushman, "Dr.," & person x) are "getting on spendidly." Cushman's health is improving.
Transcripts by Jennie Lorenz
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Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Creator
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[page 1]
Dear Sydney Lanier
Your pleasant letter found a hearty and sincere welcome from your three, I may say your four friends here – for now the Dr. is added to our trio - and makes of us a quartette of well wishers. We were +++ rejoiced to know you safely and happily arrived +++ your Paradise, and tasting its delights without drawbacks, and with new hopes. for the Dr says you can just as well be a well man as nat[?] and just think what that means! - and what vistas it opens! – just as it does to me, when I realize the blessed fact that it is possible for us to look forward once more! – We are getting on spendidly to Dr. says and he does not hesitate to reiterate his promise of a care which he says is as certain as that he lives – But beside his assurance – I can see improvement almost daily – and though there is still pain to struggle with - at times - the sweet lively soul! - has longer intervals in which it can pursue its legitimate mission ministering angel —. You will say this must be so when I tell you that a thanksgiving day we went to see Henry the 5th, and she sat through the whole long plays, with (hardly a sound of complaint! — and suffered no harm from it after! The weather has been most beneficient for us - so that hr [sic] drives have been uninterrupted – altogether I feel that I can make a very favourable report of hr [sic] — the Dr. was charmed with your lettr – and pleased to hear such good reports of your condition – we hope you will not neglect this opportunity for healing. The angel has
[page 2] [now?] troubled the waters – and not it remains with yourself to find the blessing Cushla[?] joins me in kindest greeting to you, she will take/ an early opportunity to write — this hasty scrawl is just to let you know all as going on well – Let us hear from you the same - and believe in the constant remembrance of yours faithfully E.
