Letter from Kate Field to Cordelia Riddle Sanford, March 1860 (excerpt)

Letter from Kate Field to Cordelia Riddle Sanford, March 1860 (excerpt)

Cushman, Emma Crow, 1839-1920

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908

Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876

Cushman, Edwin "Ned" Charles, 1838-1909

Italy--Rome

Manners / Etiquette

Arts--Sculpture

England

Social Events--Travels

Kate Field tells her aunt about a lively evening she spent in the company of Harriet Hosmer and Emma Crow. She also mentions that Charlotte Cushman is en route to England and that Emma Stebbins is making progress on her Lotus Eater (the sculpture is now lost; for an image see the scrapbook of Mary Stebbins Garland, p. 5).

Field, Kate, 1838-1896

Whiting, Lilian. Kate Field. A Record. Boston: Little & Brown, 1899.

1860-03-00

Reference

[...] Last evening we were at Miss Blagden 's, — mother and I meeting Miss Cobbe , Hattie Hosmer, Emma Crow , and young Cushman , the great Charlotte 's nephew ; and we all laughed immoderately at nothing, as people always do whenever Hattie Hosmer is present. Emma Crow tells me that Mr . Browning paid me a tremendous compliment the night before she left Rome. I was dying to know what, but modesty forbade. Still this much is pleasant to me and may be to you. The Brownings return in May. Miss Cushman does not visit Florence en route to England, so they say. Miss Stebbins is at work upon her Lotus Eater, and has completed a ‘wonderful’ bust of Miss Cushman. [...]

Field, Kate, 1838-1896

Florence

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