Cushman, Charlotte 1816-1876 creator mixed material monographic eng 10,000 21 2 5.5 1 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. Open to research. 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 mm 77017525 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008027.3 Open to research. DLC 780328 20260227111617.0 mm 77017525