Greenwood's "Notes from over the Sea," New York Times, April 30, 1876
Dublin Core
Title
Greenwood's "Notes from over the Sea," New York Times, April 30, 1876
Subject
Illness
France--Paris
New York Times
Italy--Rome
Travel Reports
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders, 1816-1876
Gossip--Published
Intimacy--As Source
Relationships--Networks
Social Events--Travels
Relationships--Patrons and Protégés
Intimacy--With Readers/Addressees
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904
Description
Greenwood reports on her travels through Italy. She fondly remembers her time with Cushman 23 years ago when the group of single ladies was referred to as the "happy family." Greenwood calls Cushman their "chaperone."
At the beginning, Greenwood addresses her readers as her friends.
At the beginning, Greenwood addresses her readers as her friends.
Credit
Creator
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904
Source
New York Times
Date
1876-04-30
Type
Reference
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Text
[...] To those of my friends who may have missed my letters from THE TIMES for the last five or six weeks, I am sorry to say that my silence has been compulsory. Ever since coming to Italy, when not actually traveling, or doing a very moderate amount of sight-seeing, I have been compelled to give my time and efforts to the restoration of health seriously impaired in Paris. With a thousand more interesting objects about me I have been obliged to think of myself day and night. All higher and more agreeable mental effort has been quite out of the question. [...]
FROM PARIS TO TURIN
It was on the coldest night of the Winter Feb. 10, that we left Paris for Turin by the Mont Cenis route. Through much tribulation we entered into the Kingdom of Victor Emmanuel. Though by the means of bribery and corruption we were able to secure an entire carriage for our party of four ladies, and though we were well provided with wraps, we had bitter experience of the discomforts of Continental WInter travel. [...]
TWO DAYS AT GENOA
We spent two sunny days in Genoa, a city in which I could perceive very little change fro the time of my first visit, nearly twenty-three years before. So familiar were all the street scenes, the noble show-palaces, rich in stately Vandykes, the churches, with their rough outside and brillian interiors that more than once I caught myself wistfully looking round for the dear companions of that first visit, especially for the noble leader and inspirer of our pilgrimage, Charlotte Cushman, then taking her first long holiday, and Harriet Hosmer, then bidding adieu to all long holidays, and setting her firm but ardent face toward the work of her life, and Rome. [...]
THE GREAT THINGS OF PISA
[...]
AT THE ETERNAL CITY
[...] This was during my six months' residence in Rome, the favorite walk of our household of six ENglish and American women, all single ladies of pretty decided characteristics--each one with an art, profession, or mission, yet all good friends and jolly companions. The wicked artists of that time used to call us "The Happy Family." AH, how I missed those pleasant companions at every turn from every path--how alone I seemed, though my dearer second self, my life's fairer supplement, was beside me. Most of all I missed our beloved chaperone, Charlotte Cushman, and her strong vitality and exuberant gayety seemed still to glow and sparkle in that unchanged golden atmosphere. [...]Provenance
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1876/04/30/80336056.html?pageNumber=1. Accessed 13 Sept 2021.
Location
NYC, NY, US
Geocode (Latitude)
40.7127281
Geocode (Longitude)
-74.0060152
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Collection
Citation
Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904, “Greenwood's "Notes from over the Sea," New York Times, April 30, 1876,” Archival Gossip Collection, accessed April 26, 2024, https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/items/show/858.