No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

The altercation that followed was implosive. By 1844 the romance had ended. In 1860 Charlotte Saunders Cushman again acted in New York and appeared on several occasions for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission.

Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23 1816 – February 18 1876) was an American stage actress.