Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman [?], n.d. [1854?]
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Title
Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman [?], n.d. [1854?]
Subject
Actors and Actresses--US American
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Finances
Friendship
Journalists/Writers
Relationships--Networks
Description
Henry F. Chorley asks Cushman to prepare with him a play they are working on together, Duchess Eleanor.
(Fragment of a letter?)
Credit
Library of Congress, Charlotte Cushman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Creator
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872
Source
LoC, CCP 19:2923-2942
Date
1854-09-00
Type
Reference
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[...] that Miss C: won’t give up the plan. It would be of unspeakable use to us both (if the Play is to come to anything) that we should have a quiet study of it together & I am in better spirits about it, now, than I was. I have wrought up the fourth act. till I only fear ther may be too +++ stage effect. greatly to the advantage of +++ Eleanor & should like to go over it line by line, word by word with her in the morning when the garish world is shopping! I +++ ++++ desperate quantity to do +++ it but like all things, which have a reality to their writer – the details too as they are, have fallen tidily into their places. & I think the matter will have a sort of workmanlike completness[?] such as I should wish it. With but one success I am sure of myself in that +++ old, battered, shabby & town tattered as I am! – Then, I think, that Miss C & +++
[2924] & the neighbours +++ +++ +++ (mercy upon me! What will they say, for being put in the place of the last +++!) I would do wonderful things in the chapter of public entertainment: +++ +++ +++ & I hope, my dearest madam +++ if they have not gone +++ +++ long ago – so that if the mornings were improvingly +++ the afternoons might be charmingly dissipated! I should like, however, to hear certainly: because I hardly know that I have +++ to undergo the +++ of 48 +++ +++ de suite: if I did not think I should +++ at the far end say 9th 10th or 11th of Oct as you please. I have managed three pairs[?] – Amsterdam, +++ or Frankfort – to find +++. But there's nothing but pickles & piper in the +++ peculiar & some of us are sharp[?] enough with the former & none that I know of +++.
Henry F. Chorley
[2924] & the neighbours +++ +++ +++ (mercy upon me! What will they say, for being put in the place of the last +++!) I would do wonderful things in the chapter of public entertainment: +++ +++ +++ & I hope, my dearest madam +++ if they have not gone +++ +++ long ago – so that if the mornings were improvingly +++ the afternoons might be charmingly dissipated! I should like, however, to hear certainly: because I hardly know that I have +++ to undergo the +++ of 48 +++ +++ de suite: if I did not think I should +++ at the far end say 9th 10th or 11th of Oct as you please. I have managed three pairs[?] – Amsterdam, +++ or Frankfort – to find +++. But there's nothing but pickles & piper in the +++ peculiar & some of us are sharp[?] enough with the former & none that I know of +++.
Henry F. Chorley
From
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872
To
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
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Citation
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872, “Letter from Henry F. Chorley to Charlotte Cushman [?], n.d. [1854?],” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 19, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/513.