06003cpcaa2200901 a 4500 mm 77017525 DLC 20260227111617.0 cr ||||||||||| 780328|||||||||||| eng mm 77017525 ms 78001709 DLC dacs DLC DLC L lcmd Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876. Charlotte Cushman papers, 1823-1941 (bulk 1861-1875). 10,000 items. 21 containers plus 2 oversize. 5.5 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. Arranged in 8 series. Series 1: Bound Correspondence, 1824-1876; Series 2: Unbound Correspondence, 1828-1941; Series 3: Play scripts, 1845-1871; Series 4: Readings, 1874-1890; Series 5: Newspaper Clippings, 1846-1939; Series 6: Miscellany, 1848-1905; Series 7: Addition, 1852; and Series 8: Oversize, 1823-1871. Open to research. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; souvenir programs; and other papers relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater in the United States and in London, England. During Cushman's residence in Rome, Italy (1856-1870), her correspondence relates chiefly to theatrical matters but also reflects the reaction of Americans abroad to the U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Includes reviews chronicling her career and scripts for her most well-known Shakespearean roles and material on Cushman's American tour for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission in 1863. Correspondents include Henry W. Bellows, John Bigelow, Edwin Booth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Henry Fothergill Chorley, Wayman Crow, Charles Augustus Cushman, Edwin Charles Cushman, Emma Crow Cushman, Mary Eliza Cushman, James Thomas Fields, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Helen Hunt Jackson, Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, Fanny Kemble, Rufus King, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Charles Macready, Christine Nilsson, John Howard Payne, Anna Wharton Seward, William Henry Seward, William T. Sherman, Emma Stebbins, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Martin Van Buren, Lester Wallack, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Microfilm edition (negative only) of Hamlet prompt book available, no. 16,717. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1976. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Actress. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027 Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882 Correspondence. Bigelow, John, 1817-1911 Correspondence. Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 Correspondence. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 Correspondence. Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 1801-1866 Correspondence. Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872 Correspondence. Crow, Wayman, 1808-1885 Correspondence. Cushman, Charles Augustus, 1818-1896 Correspondence. Cushman, Edwin Charles, 1838- Correspondence. Cushman, Emma Crow, 1840?- Correspondence. Cushman, Mary Eliza, 1793-1866 Correspondence. Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 Correspondence. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Correspondence. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 Correspondence. Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 Correspondence. Jewsbury, Geraldine Endsor, 1812-1880 Correspondence. Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 Correspondence. King, Rufus, 1814-1876 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Assassination. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 Correspondence. Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873 Correspondence. Nilsson, Christine, 1843-1921 Correspondence. Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852 Correspondence. Seward, Anna Wharton Correspondence. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Correspondence. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Dramatic production. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Correspondence. Stebbins, Emma, 1815-1882 Correspondence. Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892 Correspondence. Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 Correspondence. Wallack, Lester, 1820-1888 Correspondence. Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 Correspondence. United States Sanitary Commission. Acting. Americans Italy Rome History 19th century. Benefit performances United States 19th century. Drama. Theater England London History 19th century. Theater United States History 19th century. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Foreign public opinion. Actresses. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027.3 39441 39441