Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Charlotte Cushman, Wednesday, 1846

Letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to Charlotte Cushman, Wednesday, 1846

Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

Illness

Friendship

Relationships-- Intimate--Same-sex

Frank sends much love the way of Cushman, saying he is always happy about receiving letters from her, while Jewsbury is anxious about Cushman's health. While Jewsbury calls her a genius, she is also in no way a machine. 

Credit

Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880

LoC

1846

Reference

- Wednesday - Thanks for yr letter of Saturday my dear love you don't know how glad I was of it - I can only tell you this - perhaps you can explain it - I am puzzled - it came along with a
letter tht had been "purifiée au lazaret."You
may guess who  wrote it. I opened yours
first & had long word this before I broke
the seal of he other! I was just as glad
of it as if it had come all alone by itself.
I read it twice thus before I read the other
twice! - (that) I went Down Town last Saturday
specially & principally to try to see a notice of
yr "Viola" but cd not. I shall see the Gazette
& Athanaeum for next Saturday when it will be
in - our paper very rarely has any theatrical
notice - Frank sends you his best love he
is as pleased as I am when a letter from
you comes - My dear love I feel very anxious
about you. It seems to me when people have
attained yr height the wear & tear of keeping
up is worse than all the fatigue & worry of thinking
you seem to me ? that wary ? your last.

Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

17 Madnor Place, Hyde Park, London

51.5074889

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