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                <text>Cushmania</text>
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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;
&lt;h6 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG"&gt;&lt;img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/c4226e025914fe32ca1542c728bd11cc.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="237.5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/"&gt;Palladio&lt;/a&gt; visualization, Dec 2021: location of items in collection, size nodes)&lt;/h6&gt;&#13;
&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>Library of Congress</text>
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                <text>Philadelphia Historical Society</text>
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                <text>1816-00-00/1920-00</text>
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            <text>It is a shame, dear kind soul that I should have left your letter of the 15" [and another?] on the 21" so long unacknowledged, but it came on the morning I was leaving London for this place. I was staying out at Hampstead &amp;amp; this necessitated an early start in the morning to get to the Great Malvern Rway in time for the 10 o'clock train to this place. After I arrived, there was the usual hunt for lodgings (there are plenty of lodgings for Aunt if she will come, &amp;amp; somebody here to find them for her which is hard not [to?]. This occupied a good portion of the 1st day, after seeing the Dr. Then on third day began the treatment &amp;amp; for the first few days I was too busy to do anything else. Now I begin to feel a little less like a worn out broken wrinkled lunatic than I did &amp;amp; now I begin to indulge myself at the Expenses of my friends, &amp;amp; eccola, here flies off a white winged messenger tipped with black &amp;amp; spotted in violet to acknowledge with warm thanks your kind enquiry for my well being, and an embrace for the lovely little poems enclosed. You pay me a great compliment &amp;amp; give me a great pleasure in sending them. They are very lovely &amp;amp; I understand them well. What are you doing with them, have they gone home &amp;amp; have you sold them, am I at liberty to do something with them, if I can? And now you are at [Bechtengarten? Berchtesgaden?] (you were to have [conversation?] about the 23? Was it not so?) and surrounded by many of my friends, to whom you must commend me in all friendly ways. I hope dear Anne Gordon is with you there. You have formed such a clear clear [sic] estimate of her [in so] few words. "She is sweet &amp;amp; restful" - it is just what she is, &amp;amp; she is loyal &amp;amp; true. Poor dear, her measles kept her from having all the attention which any other common malady would have admitted. Her last letter sounded weak &amp;amp; feeble, but Miss [Swinshaw?] had been very attentive to her, &amp;amp; she proposed getting on as soon as possible. We hear that about the 15" there was a great [?] of heat in Italy, driving everybody out of Rome &amp;amp; Naples. How was it with you in Venice, dear lovely Venice? [George?] Sala the [Vile? obliterator?] says of Venice that it is a mixture of Cranhouse Alley &amp;amp; Waffing Old Stain?] - People must not tell [me?] that Frenchmen are the only people who compare everything [by?] their 'Bella France'. An English [press?] man is a beast, lowering &amp;amp; to lower everything. He looks with English Eyes, &amp;amp; a copied French wit, &amp;amp; -- sells his book, to demoralized young England! I mean to visit all of the condensed [poetry?] of Italy. I can't &amp;amp; won't see the prosaic side-all is quiet, peace &amp;amp; just when I think I must see it once more before I return to my native land, which you know I propose I might next summer, God Willing, I thought I should fit a holiday to visit some friends in &amp;amp; about London during the month of June &amp;amp; a portion of July, but my good Dr. Franco in Paris [finding?] me much run down from my one work last winter in Rome, orders me here immediately to get my general health restored to a proper tone &amp;amp; if I am not much better of an indurated gland in my left breast by the 1st of August, I must go to [Crustzmade?] near Coblintz for six weeks. Then my summer which was laid out for some pleasure &amp;amp; a little water treatment, which always tones me up, is given up to medical treatment. Ah what poor souls we are, or rather what poor bodies, &amp;amp; somehow souls don't perish while bodies are [poor?] at least mine doesn't, but then I am rebellious perhaps! Miss Stebbins is with me, &amp;amp; we are so quiet that nobody would know us. Oh I wish you had come here. This summer you would have spent a little more money, but you would have found this time the health here that you can anywhere else because your disposition would have been helped. Shall you not get a run up to St. Moritz? That is the most wonderful air on the continent of Europe I believe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give my kindest regards to your friends &amp;amp; companions. I have heard much of the beauty of [Bechtengarten? Berchtesgaden?] &amp;amp; hope you may find healing there. The food is bad. I imagine, all those [German?] places are dreadful in that respect, &amp;amp; therefore Malvern is so good-ah I wish you had come here. Miss Clarke &amp;amp; Miss Foley have not shown up yet. I dare say they will do so later. Miss Clarke had very thoroughly interested Dr. Sully in Miss Foley: so that he asked me very kindly for her. Now God bless you dear. Miss Stebbins sends warmest regards. Let me hear from you soon again &amp;amp; send me "more more" long poems. Believing [me?] ever as I wish you to do, very faithfully Yours, &lt;br /&gt;Charlotte Cushman</text>
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            <text>Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876</text>
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            <text>Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885</text>
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Worcestershire, UK</text>
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            <text>1869 due to the other letters included in that box?</text>
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              <text>Colorado College, Tutt Library, &lt;a href="https://libraryweb.coloradocollege.edu/library/specialcollections/Manuscript/HHJ2-2-34.html"&gt;Helen Hunt Jackson Papers, Part 2, Ms 0156, Box 2, Folder 34, letters from Charlotte Cushman to HH, 1869-7&lt;/a&gt;0. Transcribed by Nancy Knipe, 2005.</text>
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              <text>Charlotte Cushman is currently undergoing breast cancer treatment. She is surrounded by her friends and with Emma Stebbins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Transcripts courtesy of Nancy Knipe, &lt;a href="https://libraryweb.coloradocollege.edu/library/specialcollections/Manuscript/HHJ2-2-34.html"&gt;Colorado College&lt;/a&gt;.</text>
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