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 CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN. 321 was everything to cheer and charm her declining years. A single sentence in one of her last letters explains it, wherein she says : "I am suffering a good deal more pain than I like to acknowledge, and only when I am on the stage or asleep am I unconscious of it." She died at Boston in 1876, aged sixty. There have been a few greater actresses than Charlotte Cushman, but a better woman never trod the stage. The very soul of goodness dwelt in her heart, and inspired her life.