ALS, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, December 12, 1850. Letter to the editor of the Republic, in full: "Will you be so good as to announce positively that M'lle Jenny Lind will arrive in Washington on Monday morning and give her Grand Concert on the same evening rain or shine and that there is no surety whatever that she will give more than one concert in Washington. Indeed the chances are that our arrangements are such as to render it impossible to give a second concert in your city." In very good condition, with scattered light creasing and splitting along intersecting folds. A Swedish opera singer often known as the 'Swedish Nightingale,' Lind sailed to America in September 1850 to start a yearlong tour with Barnum as her manager. Thanks to Barnum's marketing, Lind was a celebrity even before she arrived, with tickets in such high demand that many were sold at auction. Her exhaustive touring of the East Coast resulted in 93 concerts under Barnum's management, with Lind earning a total of nearly $350,000.
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