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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>Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882</text>
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            <text>Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881</text>
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            <text>is the Dr. HH's father? He was often referred to as the Dr. Is Harriet the forth person? or ECC?</text>
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            <text>&lt;p&gt;[page 1]&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Dear Sydney Lanier&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Your pleasant letter found a hearty and sincere welcome from your three, I may say your four friends here – for now the D&lt;sup&gt;r.&lt;/sup&gt; is added to our trio - and makes of us a quartette of well wishers. We were +++ rejoiced to know&amp;nbsp; you safely and happily arrived +++ your Paradise, and tasting its delights without drawbacks, and with new hopes. for&amp;nbsp; the D&lt;u&gt;&lt;sup&gt;r&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/u&gt; 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! –&amp;nbsp; We are getting on spendidly to D&lt;sup&gt;r.&lt;/sup&gt; says and he does not&amp;nbsp; hesitate to reiterate his promise of a care which he says&amp;nbsp; is as certain as that he lives – But beside his assurance – I can &lt;u&gt;see&lt;/u&gt; improvement almost daily – and&amp;nbsp; though there is still pain to struggle with - at times - the&amp;nbsp; sweet lively soul! - has longer intervals in which it can&amp;nbsp; pursue its legitimate mission ministering angel —.&amp;nbsp; You will say this must be so when I tell you that a&amp;nbsp; thanksgiving day we went to see Henry the 5th, and&amp;nbsp; she sat through the whole long plays, with (hardly a sound of complaint! — and suffered no harm from it after!&amp;nbsp; 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&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[page 2] [now?]&amp;nbsp; troubled the waters – and not it remains with yourself&amp;nbsp; 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 –&amp;nbsp; Let us hear from you the same - and believe in the&amp;nbsp; constant remembrance&amp;nbsp; of yours faithfully&amp;nbsp; E.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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            <text>in all of her transcripts Lorenz indicates Johns Hopkins University as the source of material where she wrote the transcripts; Lorenz annotated her transcripts</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Emma Stebbins assures Lanier that the four of them (Stebbins, Cushman, "Dr.," &amp;amp; person x) are "getting on spendidly." Cushman's health is improving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Transcripts by &lt;a href="https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&amp;amp;searchArg=mm%2092081445&amp;amp;searchType=1&amp;amp;permalink=y"&gt;Jennie Lorenz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;a href="https://www.loc.gov/"&gt;Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.</text>
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