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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>&lt;p&gt;[2931] Thank you for your note, dear friend, with its date of the 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; – It answers, to a certain degree, key indirect enquiry about "Playing with +++", &amp;amp; by so doing, justifies me in counting it, as &lt;u&gt;"nothing by its 'self nothing"&lt;/u&gt; among probable +++ of +++. — I am obliged to calculate more sharply than suits my elderly desire for ease – owing to being menaced with the loss of a slice of the +++ small properity I can call my own: but once certain, one knows how to manage. &lt;u&gt;without&lt;/u&gt; as well as &lt;u&gt;with&lt;/u&gt;, &amp;amp; to me, as you know, not &lt;u&gt;dis&lt;/u&gt;appointment but &lt;u&gt;a&lt;/u&gt;ppointment has been the rule;. so I am not downcast. — I am glad to think you will be in town in November: because, whist we will have, &amp;amp; if not by war[?], by &lt;u&gt;rush&lt;/u&gt;. light— We shall not meet in Liverpool — as there was a moment's chance. — My children are ill&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[2931 reverse] and I am in a plight to be oppression rather than cheering to them. — So, I think, I shall go to Scarboro' on Friday. &amp;amp; wait by the seaside till Monday – when I shall more down to Bradford: &amp;amp; return hither on the [inserted] Saturday for a few days. There is a chance &amp;amp; my writing an act for Miss P. Horton: &amp;amp; if so. (fancy!, I shall have £75. for it: in which case, I shall September, I think, at Fontainebleau[?], — pass[?] October in London — &amp;amp; after that, fate &amp;amp; Lady London Lerry[?] only know what may come of me. — I have been obliged to make a complete household change – &amp;amp; have now "a weed[?], who stands about to the height of my elbow &amp;amp; his wife. a busom woman - but as celestial cook – ah! just now, when I can only give &lt;u&gt;cold. potatoe&lt;/u&gt; dinners! — They have long wished to perch on my bough — &amp;amp; I know&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;[2932] both to first. class servants. If you &lt;u&gt;could&lt;/u&gt; have had a bit of my sole to day! — I am glad my Ristori&lt;u&gt;sms&lt;/u&gt; pleased you. — I like&lt;del&gt;d&lt;/del&gt; them. myself; among my doings. I wonder what people will say of my to day's to tomb cutting over M&lt;sup&gt;de&lt;/sup&gt; Vestris. — "poor woman! - is it not strange that she should have managed to die with every luxury about her! — &amp;amp; yet want, within a very few hours of clutching the whole household! — O, "Second Love," will never be a third love of mine. — &lt;u&gt;Here beginneth the first act&lt;/u&gt; &lt;u&gt;a Lady&lt;/u&gt; – I am a woman, daughter of my mother. — &amp;amp; amstending where you see me.— &lt;u&gt;Her maid&lt;/u&gt; — I am, my Lady's maid — &amp;amp; She is my mistress — &amp;amp; —, she is blind – &lt;u&gt;etc: etc: etc:&lt;/u&gt; — Don't betray me — but it &lt;u&gt;is&lt;/u&gt; trash &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;[2932 reverse] +++ has gone to Baden. Baden – but I should fear he will not soon. get his money for his work – Have you heard of &lt;u&gt;the Times&lt;/u&gt; taking a moral fit, &lt;u&gt;apropos&lt;/u&gt; of "La Piccolonni"? — +++ is a case of &lt;u&gt;Father Cole&lt;/u&gt; on the largest scale – +++ (not saints) upturned. – Well: may it be very long before you have as heavy a heart, as your poor +++&amp;nbsp; correspondents this Saturday night, has — I have no business to write. perhaps, when I am in such plights: but, perhaps. You will forgive it, when you remember, how&amp;nbsp; living creatures are left to whom I dare or can, or will, discuss my dolours whether in French[?] or English. — Affly y&lt;sup&gt;rs&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Henry F. Chorley&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>&lt;p&gt;Chorley mentions &lt;em&gt;The Times&lt;/em&gt;, illness, Madame Vestris, and a potential meeting&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.loc.gov/"&gt;Library of Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,&amp;nbsp;Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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