Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman, Feb 15, 1847

Chorley mentions the actresses, Susan Cushman, Madame Vestris, Jenny Lind, and Fanny Kemble Butler.

Credit

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

[2923] Dear friend. I was totally unable (it being no case of choice[?] otherwise) to get to call on M^rs. Meriman when she was here. – It is three days since I began to say so. – (the present being +++ the 30^th Friday) — & by this. you may, in some measure, judge of what my predicament has been. – I say every year. "Any thing like this, I don't remember: — but, this time, it is really true". — or I would earlier have said how sorry I am to hear of you having been a sufferer – I hope my condolence will arrive "the day after the fair[?]" — but pray be a little more sparing[?] of yourself. & when you have a moment, recollect that I am earnestly wishing to know how you are.— Meanwhile for news. — It is an +++ way of beginning to say that I have not yet had time to see Mrs Butler: yet 'tis true. Mendelssohn being here, has made the musical season unusually +++: & his nights of concerts etc: Which I must attend, have been hers. — A worse reason to come out in, could not have been continued [inserted] with the +++ distress[?] & the coming apparition Jenny Lind – all the people I live with seem absorbed past thought of play going: & I hear, that wen [sic,?] her just night was not as full as we could have hoped. I sate[?] with her for

[2923 reverse] an hour the day after – & she seemed cheerful — but I hear is very unwell. — In short I am [illegible crossed out] reconciled to the delay of our Duchess, in coming When she does come, there will be to longer the same amount of curiosity about other matters of other Duchesses to distract attention  we see in the papers that Vestris is going to the Keeleys' theatre: that Drury Lande will be soon in the[?] market. – Why, +++, the last got will taken (as one says of "pills[?]") there is +++ scattered talent enough to make a grand theatrical +++ I wish any capitalist would so it & give me the manage -ment on a salary! I have written this "betwist[?] wind & water", in a state of hurry I can't describe: but I could not hear of you having been laid up – Without a line of enquiry — to +++ you that be you east or be you west, I am always faithfully & sincerely yours
Henry F. Chorley