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[[clipping ]] took of the stage Miss Cushman acted like a woman, and precisely like the woman that she was; and the censors who have misjudged her upon this point have done so, we think, through failing to consider the probable effect on conduct of that element of feminine weakness——that unsatisfied and therefore forlorn tenderness of woman's heart——which was the core of her rugged and stalwart nature. All of her adieus were sincere. None of them——till now——was final or possible. Let us bring to the coffin of this great genius, dead and at rest after such trials and such anguish, not only the gentleness of charitable judgment, but the justice of intelligent appreciation.

In the Autumn of 1860 we find Miss Cushman again acting in this city. She came forward on the 1st of October, at the Winter Garden, and she remained forty-eight nights. In February and March, 1861, she filled another engagement at the same theater, and this time was once more seen as Nancy, in "Oliver Twist." In June of that year she said good-by at New-Haven, and in July she went to Europe. Her residence there was established in Rome, where she gathered around herself a delightful society of artistic persons, and where she remained during the greater part of the ensuing ten years. Her love of country was ardent; and this [[torn page]] in dealing with the conceptions of Shakespeare Miss Cushman's spirit was the same, but her method was different. As Meg Merrilies she obeyed the law of her own nature: as Queen Katharine, which was her greatest personation, she obeyed the law of the poetic ideal that encompassed her. In that stately, sweet, and pathetic character, and again, though to a less extent, in the terrible yet tender character of Lady Macbeth——both of which she apprehended, through an intellect always clear and an imagination always adequate——the form and limitations prescribed by the dominant genius of the poet were scrupulously respected. She made Shakespeare real, but she never dragged him down to the level of the actual. She knew the hights of that wondrous intuition and potent magnetism, and she lifted herself——and her hearers——to their grand and beautiful eminence. Her best achievements in the illustration of Shakespeare were, accordingly, of the highest order of art. They were at once human and poetic. They were white marble suffused with fire. They thrilled the heart with emotion and passion and they filled the imagination with a thoroughly satisfying sense of beauty, power, and completeness. They have made her illustrious. They have done much to assert the possible grandeur and beneficence of the stage, and to confirm it in the affectionate esteem of thoughtful men and women. They remain now as a rich legacy in the remembrance of this generation; and they will pass into history among the purest, highest, and most cherished works that genius has inspired and art has accomplished to adorn an age of culture and to elevate the human mind. [[/clipping]]

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up into the studio. Eastman has begun his sugar picture but thought it best not to let me see it just yet. I advised him not to. Mrs. Johnson sent me some of her wigs for Gertrude to wear in the oratorio. Eastman walked down with me but returned soon. He liked my little twilight picture. Joe Tomkins came in about 7 o'clock by agreement and we had some tea and anchovy toast and sat and talked until ten o'clock when he left. Wrote to Gertrude

Monday Feb. 21. 1876 The weather being fine took a long walk clear down to William and Prince St. + home by the Bowery. Went to see the Costumer about Gertrudes costume and found that he had gone off to Canada without leaving the least directions about it. The costumer I was to have had not come home and would not. I was enraged and gave them a severe rating. They were underlings however and could not help it but I rummaged around and finally got a sett of jewels but no costume. Telegraphed to Gertrude to that effect so they will have to manage with the one they have as it is impossible to find a proper costume. I shall go up on Wednesday morning. Gifford dined with me. Found the frame for the Wilson picture here on my return and it is very satisfactory. I designed it for the picture. Met Wilson just leaving my room. He is apparently pleased with picture and frame; but is very fearful I will send it home before I have 

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