The Jenny Lind Collection

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she will be in England in spring, when we also I hope will arrive there.

Dear Miss Stanley who sent my little baby such a nice collar and sleeves. May I beg of you dear Mrs Stanley to most heartily thank her for them and say that I very much admire the well done work - so orderly it was! and dear Mrs Vaughan who wrote me on account of the flanel please will you also be my interpreter by her and thank her for her kind words about my dear husband. on the 15th of Dec. last I was singing the Messiah in Halle for the erection of

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a Handel Monument there being his native place it was erected in a beautiful Church

I like the place in which I sang at Norwich but [?] where Handel was baptized and where our dear Luther once preached the day before was so gloomy- so foggy and dark - but during the Concert we had the finest sunshine so that the people looked so sunny all over the place and my heart sung with great thanks giving to the sun of reighteusness the childrens Christmas tree

but the general calamity has brought the good old man to ruin. We have now these new duties to fulfill yet have we decided not to go to Russia we [?] go so far away from the children the more so as the travelling thither in Winter seems to be of a rather dangerous nature and we could not take the responsibility upon us of risking our health and lifes for the gain of that miserable [money?] but we go to [Polen?] [Worschow?] etc and this can be done in the time of 7-8 weeks. We leave home probably about the end of this month. here has been unto now the finest weather so mild

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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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Rochampton Lodge

Nov:2d. 1858.

Dearest Mrs Stanley.

It is so kind of my dean to offer us his house during our stay at Oxford - but I feel not quite right about it. - shall I tell you why? in case the news-paper writers should feel inclined to treat such an serious

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go to Oxford on Saturday. I am afraid that perhaps Mrs. W.'s affair I told you of--and which I entreat you not to mention anything about to any one--will possibly keep us here. still we hope to go in Saturday afternoon.

I know you will not misunderstand me perhaps are my fears perfectly without reason as things are greatly changed now!

Your loving child

Jenny L.

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and to utter any the slightest hurtful words about our stay in Professor Stanleys house - I would be very angry, I confess - for indeed - I had enough of all that when the late Lord Bishop of [Norwich?] invited me to the "Palace" and we have our [honour?] seated very deep -

[page 3] and I am even more sensitive for anything that touches my husband and me together than I was for myself alone.

I therefore feel as if we do better to live in the Hotel and be allowed to once dine at my [dean's?] there with those gentlemen you named.

We cannot quite certain say if we

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she understands and appreciates you right and this was to me under the present circumstances almost a second yourself.

I shall not have the happiness of meeting you here, as I leave tomorrow for Rockhampton, wishing to settle a few things about our winter abode without husband and children they therefore remain here some days longer.

When you see Mrs. Hail please not to forget to tell that I could yet reach Lime House when we went to the [Horst?]] as a

[Right page] heavy rain came upon us, and we thought it wiser to hurry home on account of the children and our open carriages. please will you kindly tell Mrs. [?] all this?

We are very well. I think this has done us much good we have had such lovely weather I am so pleased about your pleasant journey. I am greatly longing to hear Miss Stanleys accounts of yourself, and happy that you are not lost. We have no house as yet. we remain at Rockhampton Lodge for the winter. that house I spoke of has now been let. it was too

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and their tricks, I feel, and that pains me to see their absence of conscience in many things what do those people go to church for or sit in the [passage?] in the morning, I wonder and to see my beautiful linen spoiled out of bad treatment from the dreadful washing in England! You see I am [not] [come?] [further?] but that such things upset and pain me! and the idea of being

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obliged to eat up our whole income and have very little beside to give away, is a new experiment to me. here in England the Butcher and the servants prevent you from doing any charity! our simple living on the Continent is by far the truer and the better. forgive this

Belfast 13.Oct.1859

Beloved Mrs. Stanley

How extremely kind of you to thus answer on the silent questions I have been asking you all these last two weeks about Dr. Vaughon?, and what a sweet confidence you have shown me when you thought that my humble self would be able to understand why [Dr. Vaughan?] is [?] [his?] rest indeed_ Otto and myself are rejoicing in the hope of his getting some time of rest, and more than

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deeply do I feel how it was not possible for a gentle spirit like Dr. Vaughon? to carry much longer such an awful responsibility on his soul and mind and I truly hope that my beloved Mrs Stanley will soon feel quite reconciled to this important step taken herself and believe that her two children have acted quite right for the future and that also Mrs Vaughons health would sooner or later have almost given way under the daily toil she had to go through and which probably brought on those painful and

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weakening headaches. When I first read about Dr. Vaughons intended departure from his task at [Harrow?] I did not believe it and as Mrs [Coates?] seemed to know nothing whatever about it I left it to the next news and when I saw them in the papers I felt it was true. Well with their 800 agree they will feel very happy for some time - until you will greet you son in Law as Bishop that is [?] humble believe. Dear thanks to your beloved Mrs Stanley for having letting me know so much about this deeply interesting transaction.