Jenny Lind letter to Catherine Stanley, 1858, May 6

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Dresden 6th of May 1858

Dearest Mrs Stanley

If I had not lived in trunks and emballage all these last four weeks you would sooner have heard from me - but so I have really had no head to write even to you! Thanks for your last dear lines of the 30th of March how hard it must be for you not to go to [?]

[left page] notes and hold them very long. When I returned from the Journey she at first was a little shy but as soon she saw Walter hanging around my neck she also began to stretch her arm Towards me and in a few hours the child was as if I never had been away. She remembered every thing about me she is very funny. She is a very decided young lady. Walter is too meek for a boy - but he was touching when we returned.

Good Mr Murray, he is one of the most honest and disinterested people I ever in my life meet with. I quite love him. -- We hope to arrive in England in the first days of June. I hope I shall find you there then. do not forget me until then and believe me your truly loving child,

Jenny L.

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any more _ Now you will have [?] to [Oxford?] and will [God?] I hope to be allowed to once follow you there and see my dear # unmusical [Dearest?] Mrs Grote she is the one to appreciate any thing that is fine -she is a delightful companion. I feel so happy at your liking her and understanding her real purity of character. She is so trustworthy how I delight at the thought of seeing you so soon, dearest Mrs Stanley.

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what delight to me to think that I can be with you in peace and sit on a [low?] little chair and look into your beloved sweet face as I did before I started for [Amerika] with my soul filled with the spring-love in Christ!

I had just then awakened to his knowledge now I am an old woman with two children. You wish to know how they are and how and what little Jenny is grown. She is thank god and robust a strongminded thing far less nervous than poor Walter very fat and walks soon quite alone She sang in her little bed this morning quite high

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