t of another and second concert, prior to your
departure for Europe.

Your advent musical in "Gotham" has not been idly heralded
among the true lovers of song, and admirers of exalted
genius, of which your unprecedented success on Wednesday
evening must have sufficiently convinced you; while all are
eloquent in the commendation of your superior powers and
engaging method.

Confiding, madam, in your reported magnanimity and
generosity to oblige, I will divest myself of tedious
circumlocution, and fervently exhort you to make a second
exhibition of your skill; which, there can be no doubt, will
be highly successful to you, and as interesting to your
admirers.

THE PUBLIC.

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"Miss Greenfield embarked from New York in a British steamer
for England, April 6, 1853; and arrived in Liverpool the
16th of April, 1853; rested over the sabbath, and proceeded
Monday morning to London, in which metropolis she became
safely domiciled on the evening of the same day.

"But painful trials awaited her from a quarter the most
unexpected. The individual with whom she had drawn up the
contract for this musical tour was unfaithful to his
promises; and she found herself abandoned, without money and
without friends, in a strange country.

"She had been told Lord Shaftesbury was one of the great
good men of England; and she resolved to call upon him in
person, and entreat an interview. His lordship immediately
granted her request, listened patiently to her history, and
directly gave her a letter of introduction to his lawyer.

"It may perhaps be considered a providential concurrence
that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was in London this same time
with Miss Greenfield. We notice in her 'Sunny Memories,'
under the date of May 6, the following remarks: 'A good many
calls this morning. Among others came Miss Greenfield, the
(so-called) "Black Swan." She appears to be a gentle,
amiable, and interesting young person. She has a most
astonishing voice. C. sat down to the piano, and played
while she sang. Her voice runs through a compass of three
octaves and a fourth. This is four notes more than
Malibran's. She sings a most magnificent tenor, with such a
breadth and volume of sound, that, with your